In 1997 at Black Rock Desert, Nevada, he drove Thrust SSC to become the first person to break the sound barrier in a car and set the existing land-speed record of 763mph.

1997年在内华达州黑岩沙漠，他驾驶“推进”号超音速车成为突破汽车音障的第一人，并创下目前时速763英里的地面速度记录。

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Just down the road too, in Sparks, was a warehouse containing the strange, finned, tubular car in which he hoped to break the land speed record, travelling as close as he could to 800 miles an hour.

那里保存着那种奇怪，有翼的喷气式汽车。 福塞特希望驾驶它打破陆地速度记录，尽可能的接近时速800英里。

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In 1997 at Black Rock Desert, Nevada, he drove Thrust SSC to become the first person to break the sound barrier in a car and set the existing land-speed record of 763mph.

ECONOMIST: The land-speed record

Just down the road too, in Sparks, was a warehouse containing the strange, finned, tubular car in which he hoped to break the land speed record, travelling as close as he could to 800 miles an hour.

ECONOMIST: Steve Fossett