The driver of Bloodhound SSC, Andy Green, is seen here delivering something he truly loves: inspiring a new generation by helping to expose them to new technology while striving to new heights.

If anyone can pull off this amazing engineering feat, these are the men who can do this. While there are thousands of race car drivers the world over, only one man has officially been across the sound barrier on land, and back, and that's Andy Green.

A person may wonder “Do strange things happen when a car breaks the sound barrier?” You bet your ass they do - if you’re driving that is.

When Andy was driving the Thrust SSC car, as the car got up to about 590 mph, plus or minus five mph, the car would suddenly leap 30 to 50 feet to the left. As to whether this was precisely due to pressure waves is not exactly known. It was also at this speed that as the car began to go transonic, Andy would start to hear and feel the strange vibration in the car, a kind of moan it would generate, as the shock waves built up about his canopy.

Andy could not actually hear the sonic boom while driving the car at a supersonic speed, but the shock (pressure) wave that fanned out off the front of the car was doing its thing after exceeding Mach 1 the whole time. And, yes, strange things did happen after Mach 1 during the Thrust SSC performance.

Here's one example of a supersonic abnormality they encountered. When Thrust SSC was going supersonic (faster than the speed of sound) its front wheels were turning slower than the actual known speed of the car.

In reviewing the data, it's assumed that the lower-most lip of the front of the car, where the pressure wave generated from, while facing the desert surface, was fanning out the pressure wave in such a manner that the wave was acting in effect like a high pressure air-hose, blasting away the desert playa surface, clearing a path before the wheels so the front wheels of the car simply did not have full traction at full speed to rotate them in concert with the actual known air-speed.

It's not a bad thing Bloodhound has a real RAF Fighter Pilot in the cockpit of this car!

The build team creating Bloodhound in the shop located in the UK.

Why do this some may ask? Well for the Bloodhound SSC team there are two primary answers that are at the tip of a very large iceberg. The first is this project is an extraordinary engineering adventure that has touched the lives of thousands of people, many school children in the UK, and in South Africa, where the car will make its record runs. The following of the Bloodhound project by school children in the UK, in 2015, saw involvement by more than 100,000 participants and in South Africa, 1200 schools took part in Bloodhound school projects that same year.