The Blue Flame was the rocket-powered vehicle driven by Gary Gabelich that achieved the world land speed record onBonneville Salt Flats in Utah on October 23, 1970. The mile record stood until 1983, when it was broken by Richard Noble’s Thrust2, but the faster kilometre record stood for 27 years until ThrustSSC went supersonic in 1997.
On 23 October 1970 at Bonneville, Gary Gabelich drove Blue Flame to a new record of 630.388 miles per hour (1,014.511 km/h) for the flying kilometre.
