Andy Green OBE, World Land Speed Record Holder

Newbury, UK, October 12, 2009 – National Instruments UK & Ireland today announced that Wing Commander Andy Green OBE, British Royal Air Force fighter pilot and the holder of the World Land Speed Record, will deliver the Keynote at NIDays, the UK’s annual professional development conference and exhibition for engineers, scientists and educators involved in test, control and design.  Entitled “Adventures in Engineering and Innovation”, Green’s Keynote will discuss his experiences as the driver of Richard Noble's Thrust SSC (SuperSonic Car) and the importance of British engineering innovation.  In addition, Green will describe how, through the BLOODHOUND SSC project, he and Noble plan to inspire the next generation of engineers and scientists, whilst setting the most remarkable Land Speed Record of all time.

Green is a First Class Honours degree graduate in mathematics from Oxford University, which he attended on an RAF scholarship.  In 1997, driving Thrust SSC, Green set the world’s first and only supersonic Land Speed Record at an astonishing 763 mph (Mach 1), breaking Noble's own 1983 record, and driving literally ‘faster than a speeding bullet’ - becoming ‘The Fastest Mathematician on Earth’.  In 2006, he drove the JCB DIESELMAX car, smashing the Diesel Land Speed Record, achieving a speed of 350 mph.