How Did a Car Break the Sound Barrier?

In 1997, a car broke the sound barrier — the only one in history to ever do it. Nearly three decades later, that land speed record still stands, and the team built to finally beat it has been sitting without a driver since 2023. On October 15th, 1997, Andy Green drove Thrust SSC to 763.035 mph in Nevada's Black Rock Desert, officially breaking the sound barrier and setting the land speed record that remains unbeaten today. In this video: How Craig Breedlove and Art Arfons nearly killed each other chasing the land speed record through the 1960s Why breaking the sound barrier on the ground is fundamentally harder than doing it in a fighter jet The little-known "Budweiser Rocket Car" that may have gone even faster in 1979 — and exactly why it was never recognized as a record Bloodhound, the British project built to push past 1,000 mph, and what's actually happened to it since If you liked finding out the record everyone assumes is settled usually isn't, watch how the fastest production car title turned out to be a lot messier than the headlines say 👉    • What is Actually the Fastest Car in the Wo...   Subscribe to The Uncharted Engineering for more records that turned out to be harder to verify — or beat — than anyone expected. #LandSpeedRecord #SoundBarrier #ThrustSSC