Thrust: The remarkable - Couverture souple

Noble, Richard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0553812084 ISBN 13 : 9780553812084

Editeur : Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group), 1999

Synopsis

They said it couldn't be done. Sceptics warned that as a car approached 750 mph the shock waves generated when it hit the sound barrier would either force it off the ground like an aeroplane or tear it apart. ichard Noble, the modern embodiment of the swashbuckling British speed seeker of yesteryear, was used to that kind of blinkered thinking. He had held the title of The Fastest Man on Earth since 1983, when his Thrust 2 car set a new world land speed record at 633 mph. Critics had argued that he would fail then, too. Noble liked nothing better than a fight. In the late 1990s, as a gripping Anglo-American race began to create the world's first supersonic car, he was determined to achieve this world first for Britain. n 15 October 1997, Noble's Thrust SSC, driven by ice-cool RAF Squadron Leader Andy Green, smashed through the sound barrier to create the first supersonic land speed record at 763 mph. The Thrust SSC team had beaten the Americans, thumbed its nose at the sceptics, and realized what seemed an impossible dream. It was a triumph for British engineering, technology and derring-do. his is Richard Noble's story of his obsession with speed, from his early days w

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À propos de l?auteur

Richard Noble has been obsessed with speed since he was six years old, when his father took him to Loch Ness to see John Cobb's boat Crusader - in which Cobb was to die trying to gain the water speed record only a few months later. After a public school education Noble led two overland expeditions across Africa and Asia. On his return he briefly contemplated a career in the SAS, before working in industry for several years, while building Thrust 1 in his spare time. Following his world land speed record in Thrust 2, Noble was awarded the OBE. Nowadays he is much in demand for motivational speaking, particularly since the triumph of Thrust SSC in piercing the sound barrier for the first time.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0553812084
• ISBN 13: 9780553812084
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 416
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• Personne responsable: non disponible