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Driver who broke sound barrier attempts another speed record in Utah
At age 64, Andy Green thought his racing career was behind him until JCB invited him to join their new project
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The sole person to ever drive a car faster than the speed of sound is returning to the salt flats of Utah this week, aiming to establish a
fresh world speed benchmark.
Two decades after British driver Andy Green achieved a diesel-powered
land speed record of 350.092 mph (563.4 kph) on UtahrCOs Bonneville Salt Flats, he is returning to the desert terrain on Tuesday. This time, he
will attempt to surpass his previous achievement using a vehicle
propelled by hydrogen.
Beyond pursuing a new title, the retired Royal Air Force fighter pilot
hopes to demonstrate the viable potential of hydrogen as a clean energy option. Green described hydrogen as the "fuel of the future" during an interview with The Associated Press in July.
For his latest attempt, Green will steer the 32-foot (9.75-meter) JCB Hydromax, a slender, bright yellow machine crafted by British
construction equipment producer JCB that looks much like a pencil. Drive
comes from two modified construction machinery engines converted into
hydrogen internal combustion units. Producing a collective 1,600
horsepower, the engines ignite a mix of ambient air and pressurized
hydrogen gas to supply propulsion.
The Bonneville Salt Flats International Speedway sign near Wendover, Utah
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The Bonneville Salt Flats International Speedway sign near Wendover,
Utah (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer,File)
While aiming to eclipse his old diesel record, Green also intends to
surpass the existing land speed marks for hydrogen internal combustion
cars (185.5 mph/298.5 kph) and electric vehicles (341.3 mph/549.2 kph).
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Guinness World Records notes that Green was already a supersonic
military pilot when he saw a print advertisement stating: "Wanted:
High-speed driver to break the sound barrier."
In 1997, driving a twin-jet vehicle in Nevada's Black Rock Desert, he
broke the sound barrier and set the absolute land speed record of
763.035 mph (1,227.98 kph), generating sonic booms that rattled the
nearby community of Gerlach.
British driver Andy Green goes for a new unofficial world diesel powered
land speed record of over 328 mph over two runs Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2006,
on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah
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British driver Andy Green goes for a new unofficial world diesel powered
land speed record of over 328 mph over two runs Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2006,
on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac,File)
At age 64, Green believed his racing career was behind him until JCB
invited him to join their new project. The manufacturer has poured over
$134 million into developing hydrogen engines, which it states generate
zero carbon dioxide tailpipe emissions.
"If yourCOre serious about emissions, you have to be serious about
hydrogen, and a land speed project is the perfect way to prove it," JCB
Chair Anthony Bamford declared during the vehicle's May presentation.
Bamford maintains that hydrogen technology is better suited to heavy industrial applications than battery-electric solutions.
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Located near the Utah-Nevada state line, the landscape has served as a
filming site for feature films such as Independence Day and The WorldrCOs Fastest Indian, along with the final episode of the television series
Mad Men.
Green is scheduled to launch his attempt approximately an hour before
dawn on Tuesday. The run comes one year after a fatal accident at
Bonneville's annual Speed Week, where driver Chris Raschke crashed his rocket-shaped vehicle, Speed Demon, at 283 mph (455 kph) last August and succumbed to his injuries.
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