Andy Green
| Andy D. Green | |
|---|---|
| Born |
30 July 1962 Atherstone, Warwickshire, England |
| Allegiance |
 United Kingdom
|
| Service/branch |
 Royal Air Force
|
| Rank | Wing Commander |
| Awards | Officer of the Order of the British Empire |
Wing Commander Andy D. Green OBE (born 30 July 1962) is a British Royal Air Force fighter pilot and World Land Speed Record holder.
Born in Atherstone, Warwickshire, Green was educated at St Olave's Grammar School in Orpington, Kent, and then gained an RAF scholarship to Worcester College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1983 with first class honours in mathematics. Later that year Green was regraded from acting Pilot Officer to Pilot Officer in the RAF. He qualified as a fighter pilot on F-4 Phantom and Tornado F3 aircraft. In 2003 Green was promoted to Wing Commander. He later became Officer Commanding Operations Wing at RAF Wittering near Peterborough. Green is also the captain of the RAF team at the Cresta Run, where he uses an experimental French toboggan.
Green is the current holder of the World Land speed record, and the first person to break the sound barrier on land. On 25 September 1997 in ThrustSSC he beat the previous record in Black Rock Desert, USA, reaching a speed of 714.144 miles per hour (1,149.303 km/h). On October 15, 1997, 50 years and 1 day after the sound barrier was broken in aerial flight by Chuck Yeager, Green reached 763.035 miles per hour (1,227.986 km/h), the first supersonic record (Mach 1.016). His call sign was "Dead Dog".
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