Thrust 2: Underneath the Cockpit

Thrust 2: Underneath the Cockpit runs at the Coventry Transport Museum on Thursday 29 October, from 11am to 3pm. It's a chance to get a look underneath the cockpit of Thrust 2, the vehicle that broke the World Land Speed Record. The activity lets you see the features that enabled the machine to reach such extraordinary speeds, alongside the story of how Richard Noble and his team achieved the record.

Thrust 2 is one of the most iconic vehicles in land speed record history. On 4 October 1983, Richard Noble sat in its cockpit and broke the World Land Speed Record, reaching 633 mph on the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. It's a record that put the car on the map, and this is your chance to see the engineering that made it happen.

The Coventry Transport Museum, in the city centre, houses the largest publicly owned collection of British vehicles in the world and tells the story of a city that changed the world through transport. It's home to both Thrust SSC and Thrust 2, described as the world's two fastest cars and as spectacular feats of British engineering. If you've seen them from a distance, this is a good excuse to get a bit closer.

The session runs from 11am to 3pm on Thursday 29 October, and it's included with admission. The museum is at Millennium Place, Hales Street, Coventry CV1 1JD.