{"id":704833,"date":"2026-07-22T07:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T07:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/704833\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T07:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T07:30:09","slug":"my-wife-signed-me-up-for-world-speed-record-bid-says-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/704833\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;My wife signed me up for world speed record bid&#8217; says driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Green&#8217;s fascination with aircraft first sparked his interest in speed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve been very lucky to have [had] the world&#8217;s best day job, flying jet fighters for the Royal Air Force and doing something that I&#8217;m very proud of, which is defending the country as part of our armed forces,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Green served in Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia and the Falklands, flying RAF aircraft such as the Phantom, Tornado F3 and Harrier. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But he said travelling at hundreds of miles per hour in a car was very different from piloting a supersonic jet, due to the need to remain in contact with the ground and constraints relating to drag and acceleration and braking distances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Green&#8217;s fascination with aircraft first sparked his interest in speed. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been very lucky to have [had] the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-704833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}