Wing Commander Andrew Duncan Green OBE (born 30 July 1962) is a British Royal Air Force fighter pilot and World Land Speed Record holder.\n', '

Born in Atherstone, Warwickshire, Green was educated at Bydales Comprehensive School at Marske-by-the-Sea, Cleveland and 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 promoted from acting Pilot Officer to substantive 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.\n', '

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, US, reaching a speed of 714.144 miles per hour (1,149.303 km/h). On 15 October 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". As the vehicle crossed the speed of sound it created a sonic boom. \n', '

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