Traditionally, jet powered Landspeed Record vehicles have been built in two distinct layouts:

 

1 - Driver in line and in front of the engine
This is the layout employed by Landspeed legend Craig Breedlove of the United States in his car Spirit of America
2 - Driver alongside the engine with four wheels, one in each corner
The Green Monster was built and driven by another Landspeed Legend, Art Arfons of Akron, Ohio, USA.

 

Jetblack has been based on the 1983-1997 world landspeed record holder, Thrust 2
Thrust 2 was designed by Briton John Ackroyd and driven  to world landspeed record of 633.468mph by Richard Noble. We have selected this layout as it is generally accepted to be the most stable and balanced.

 

Rosco McGlashan, the current holder of the Australian Landspeed Record also chose the Thrust 2 layout when designing and building Aussie Invader II and Aussie Invader III.
Aussie Invader 2 set an Australian record of 498.200 mph in 1994.	Aussie Invader 3 missed its chance to take the world landspeed record in 1996 when it struck timing lights
Both cars needed all the stability they could get on the Lake Gairdner salt