An entrepreneur is celebrating the anniversary of a land speed record he broke in Nevada 40 years ago. Richard Noble was behind the wheel of Thrust 2 as it averaged 633mph (1018.7km/h) in the Black ...

The desire to break the land speed record goes back to the earliest days of the motor car, where inventors would compete against each other to see whose machine was the fastest. The race hit its peak ...

With twin stacked Rolls-Royce Avons, the Lightning climbed 40,000 feet in 2.5 minutes and smashed Mach 2. Yet its 6,000-pound ...