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(Photo JCB) On Tuesday, a 64-year-old retired Royal Air Force pilot climbed into a 32-foot machine built by a British construction equipment maker and drove it across the Bonneville Salt Flats at an average of 406.32 miles per hour. Andy Green, the only person alive who has broken the sound barrier in a car, was not chasing his own 1997 land speed mark of 763.035 mph set in the jet-powered ThrustSSC. He was chasing something arguably more consequential for the energy transiti
When Wing Commander Andy Green OBE returns to the salt-white expanse of Utah's Bonneville Flats in August 2026, he will not be chasing a diesel record. He will be piloting the JCB Hydromax, a 32-foot, 1,600 brake horsepower hydrogen-powered streamliner aiming to shatter the world hydrogen land speed record currently held by the Venturi Buckeye Bullet 2 at 303 miles per hour, and to surpass the 350.092 mph diesel mark Green himself set two decades ago in the JCB Dieselmax, a r
