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Who broke the record of World Land Speed?

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Image source  Wikipedia Image source  Wikipedia Wing Commander   Andrew Duncan Green   OBE , a British Royal Air Force fighter pilot who broke the record of World Land Speed, he drove the jet-powered car  ThrustSSC (supersonic car) with an astounding top speed rate of 763 mph, which lead him to become the first and only SuperSonic land speed record holder. Born in 1962, 30th July, Atherstone, Warwickshire, decided to go into the military line, Green attended the Worcester College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1983 earning first-class honors in mathematics. He was promoted from acting pilot officer to substantive  Pilot officer in the Royal Air Force and began training a role in a jet fighting squadron. In 1997, he drove ThrustSSC where he reached a speed at 763mph, the first supersonic record ever, creating a sonic boom as the ThrustSSC exceeded the speed of sound. Gaining the World Land Speed record 'the fastest man on earth' " (The sonic boom produced by ThrustSSC) was