Royal Air Force pilot Andy Green, current holder of the World Land Speed Record, will be speaking to Worthing business people at a charity lunch held on Friday, July 18th, 2008, at The Chatsworth Hotel, Worthing.
The charity lunch event is being held on behalf of the Princess Marina House, the RAF Benevolent Fund’s respite care home in Rustington, West Sussex.
Andy said, “I am thoroughly looking forward to talking about my experience of breaking the World Land Speed Record. Hopefully my experience as part of the team which produced the car able to drive at 763 miles per hour may serve as motivation to others."
“I know that people are, and always will be, the most important part of the Royal Air Force and I am proud of the work that the Benevolent Fund does to help the Service ‘Family’. In particular, the facilities at the Princess Marina House provide terrific short-break care and recuperation for those in need. It is good to see the current appeal making progress and I very much hope that together we can help it to reach its target.”
Driving Richard Noble’s Thrust SSC (SuperSonic Car) in 1997, Andy set the world’s first and only supersonic land speed record at an astonishing 763 mph, driving literally ‘faster than a speeding bullet’. To hear of the huge technological, practical and personal challenges that he and the team had to overcome in pursuit of the ultimate Land Speed Record is to share in a story that you will not quickly forget.
After setting the outright Land Speed Record in 1997, he went on to drive the JCB DIESELMAX car in 2006. He and the team overcame some very different but equally challenging problems to smash the diesel record, setting the new mark at a remarkable 350 mph for the world’s fastest diesel car. Andy is now not only the only man in history to have driven supersonic, but also the only man ever to hold outright records in two such different classes of vehicle.
Places are limited for this lunchtime event.
Tables of ten costing £250 or individual places at £25 per head are available by contacting Nicola James at RAF Benevolent Fund on 01242 584913.
