Britain's JCB Hydromax sets world land speed record for a  hydrogen-powered vehicle

Aug 11 : Former fighter pilot Andy Green set a world land speed record for a hydrogen-powered car at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah on Tuesday.The Briton, already the outright land speed record holder, set his latest first at the wheel of a JCB Hydromax vehicle that harnessed the power of two production-based digger engines to reach a combined speed over two runs of 406.320mph/653.909kph.The record run was overseen by the International Automobile Federation (FIA) and is subject to ratification by the governing body's Land Speed Records Commission.Green, 63, set his land speed world record of 763.035 mph (1,227.985 kph) in the jet-engined Thrust SSC in 1997. On Tuesday he did a run in each direction over a distance of one mile within an hour, and with the average speed establishing the r