Photos courtesy Aussie Invader. On the one hand, according to Rosco McGlashan, plenty of people have told him that they too intend to build a vehicle that’ll break the world land-speed record, typica...
Photo courtesy Bloodhound LSR. Less than a month ago, Bloodhound LSR owner Ian Warhurst believed the massive jet/rocket-propelled car could still make it back to Hakskeen Pan for a run at the world l...
Photo via BloodhoundLSR.com. All winter, the Bloodhound land-speed racing team has made it clear that they won’t be able to return to South Africa’s Hakskeen Pan for a run at the world land-speed rec...
Image courtesy Bloodhound LSR. Judging from videos, the mood of the entire Bloodhound LSR team as it packed up and left Hakskeen Pan this week ran from celebratory to jovial. The jet car had performe...
Photo courtesy North American Eagle Facebook page. Just over a year after the North American Eagle land-speed racing team lost one of its two co-drivers, Ed Shadle, and vowed to continue his quest to...
Rendering courtesy Bloodhound SSC. Never say never, apparently. Just 10 days after the administrators in charge of the Bloodhound SSC world land-speed effort announced they were scrapping the project...
Photo courtesy Bloodhound SSC. Less than two months after the British Bloodhound SSC land-speed record effort announced that it needed £25 million to keep going, the administrators placed in charge o...
Photo courtesy Bloodhound SSC. While funding issues caused the Bloodhound SSC team to delay its quest for the world land-speed record last year, the £25 million shortfall that the team announced this...
Ed Shadle and Jessi Combs at a test session in 2015 in the Alvord Desert. Photo courtesy North American Eagle team. For 20 years, Ed Shadle spent nearly every waking hour in pursuit of his goal of br...
Photo courtesy LandSpeed.com. Not much exists on the alkali flats of the Diamond Valley in central Nevada. While cattle ranchers and timothy grass farmers keep to the southern end of the valley, the ...
Artist rendering courtesy Aussie Invader on Facebook. After more than four months, Australia’s Taxation Office has canceled its effort to reclaim a six-figure tax incentive from the Aussie Invader la...
Artist rendering courtesy Aussie Invader on Facebook. Setting the world land-speed record requires highly advanced computer engineering models, precision machining, and plenty of derring-do. It also ...