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Wing Commander Andy D. Green OBE BA RAF (born 30 July 1962
[1]) is a
British Royal Air Force pilot and World
Land Speed Record holder.
RAF career
Green was educated at
St Olave's Grammar School and then gained an RAF scholarship to
Worcester College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1983 with first class honours in
mathematics.
[2] He qualified as a
fighter pilot on
F-4 Phantom and
Tornado F3 aircraft, and later became
Officer Commanding Operations Wing at
RAF Wittering. Andy Green is also the captain of the RAF team at the
Cresta Run, where he uses an experimental French toboggan.
Speed records
Supersonic
Andy Green is the current holder of the World
Land speed record, and the first person to break the
sound barrier on land. On 25 September 1997 in
ThrustSSC he beat the previous record in
Black Rock Desert,
USA, reaching a speed of 714.144 mph (1149.30 km/h). On October 15, 1997, exactly 50 years and 1 day after the sound barrier was broken in aerial flight by
Chuck Yeager, Andy Green reached 763.035 mph (1227.99 km/h), the first
supersonic record (
Mach 1.016). His
call sign was "Dead Dog".
Andy is now working with
Richard Noble again on their new record attempt to break the 1,000 mph mark with
Bloodhound SSC.
Road car
His next land speed attempt was for MG in a specially modified
MG F called the MG EX255, however, due to the time required for modifications, the project did not finish on time and that attempt never happened.
Diesel power
Since then, Andy Green's most recent challenge was the driving of the
JCB Dieselmax car, attempting to take the Diesel
Land Speed Record over 300 mph (480 km/h). Having trialled the vehicle on his own RAF base, Wittering, on 22 August 2006, he broke the previous record of 236 mph (380 km/h) (set in August 1973), after attaining an average speed of 328.767 mph (529 km/h) during two runs on the
Bonneville Salt Flats,
Utah. 24 hours later, Andy Green broke his own record, achieving a speed of 350.092 mph (563.418 km/h) on 23 August 2006.
Honours and awards
He was created an
Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1997 New Year's Honours List.
[3] He was awarded the Segrave Trophy by the
Royal Automobile Club in 1997. In 2006 he was awarded the John Cobb Trophy by the
British Racing Drivers' Club for "a success of outstanding character".
[4] And an Honorary degree from Staffordshire University, July 2008.
Racing experience
On the 14th June 2009 Andy gained his first ever circuit racing experience, whilst raising money for the
Bloodhound SSC project, by participating in Round 4 of the Elise Trophy at
Snetterton[5].
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