He has held the land speed record, 633mph, for the past 13 years. "If all goes well, Andy should accelerate to 100mph in four seconds, 600mph in 16, and be up to 850mph in half-a-minute, by which time Thrust will have covered five miles." Parachutes and disc brakes from a Boeing 757 will bring Thrust back into the realm of Escorts and school-run Volvos."This is about four times quicker off the mark than a Tornado," says Green, who will pushed back into Thrust's driving seat by a force six times greater than gravity. This black wingless jet is a British-designed and built supercar, powered by two Rolls-Royce Spey engines grafted from an RAF Phantom fighter-bomber and generating a mighty 110,000 horsepower, equivalent to the power of 140 Formula One racing cars. The difference is that while Yeager did it in the air, exceeding 670mph, Green is hoping to do it on land. This will mean steering a rock-steady course across the Black Rock desert, Nevada, at no less than 741.8mph - the speed needed to go supersonic at sea level - in Thrust SSC. Fifty years on, RAF Tornado pilot Andy Green has the Right Stuff, no question. In September, Green aims to do what Chuck Yeager did before him and break the sound barrier.

No one knew at the time whether or not the build-up of sonic waves around the tiny Bell X-I rocket plane would send Chuck spinning from the stratosphere over Edwards Air Base, Texas, and into the realm where only angels need wings. The Midlands Regional Crime Squad and Avon and Somerset police assisted the squad in the inquiry."It was a fairly well planned exercise on the man's part," said the spokeswoman.. Chuck Yeager, the great American test pilot, had what Tom Wolfe called the Right Stuff It saw him through the sound barrier in 1947 First man there. The 44-year-old man, who is believed to have sympathies with animal rights' groups, had already planted two devices on commercial premises in the city, which were defused by army bomb disposal squads. Detectives from the South East Regional Crime Squad arrested the man, who is of no fixed address.The arrest was the culmination of what police described as several weeks of round-the-clock surveillance.Police said they believed the man was about to carry out a campaign against companies involved in animal research.The man was arrested in the Broadmead shopping centre in Bristol after police had seen him plant two devices in shops, a police spokeswoman said.They found four more armed devices in his coat, she said.Both shops were thought to be involved in animal research.Fifty police officers had been watching the man over several weeks, said the spokeswoman.The regional crime squad was called in after a tip-off about the man's activities, she said.The man's movements over large areas of the country meant that the scale of the surveillance needed was beyond the scope of one force.

A man carrying incendiary devices was arrested in Bristol yesterday, police said last night. The reasons were the oldest ones in the book - sex and money.Passing sentence at Birmingham Crown Court, Mr Justice Nelson said: "The jury have convicted you of murder This was cold, calculated offence. A chilling murder."The fantastical tale of murder and deceit began shortly after the couple married. Mrs Trigwell began making frequent visits to South Africa, apparently to visit her daughter.

In fact, she was seeing her former lover, Jan Burger.She soon became interested in the pounds 400,000 she would inherit on the death of her husband. To that end, she paid a Johannesburg nightclub owner pounds 15,000 for a contract killing, the court heard. Two men were hired and dispatched to Britain.In February last year, Mr Trigwell was found at the couple's home in Sutton Coldfield.However, Mrs Trigwell was overheard planning the hit by the wife of the nightclub owner - a brothel-keeper - planning the hit and told the court of a meeting between Trigwell and the two hitmen, Loren Sundkvist and Paul Ras.Det Supt Ken Evans, who led the murder inquiry, said he hoped to bring back the two alleged hitmen before a British court He described Trigwell as "a hard, cold and callous woman".. At first the police had almost too many prime suspects to the murder. One person few suspected of being responsible was his wife of less than a year, Anne, who was 6,000 miles away in South Africa when the murder took place.But yesterday, Ethel Anne Trigwell, 43, was jailed for life for hiring two South African hitmen to assassinate her husband. Mr Trigwell, 44, appeared to have excelled at making enemies around the world during his career as a private eye. One of his specialities was snatching "tug of love" children for money, as well as developing unhealthy connections with underworld figures.