Bluebird was meant to help set a new top speed on the water. And it did more than that. Throughout about ten years, Campbell drove the K7 to seven world water speed records. The eight attempt was ...

But Donald Campbell’s career was cut tragically short in 1967 when he was killed a split second before breaking his own water speed record in his jet-powered boat, the Bluebird K7. He was ...

but after a structural failure at 170 mph in 1951 he developed the Bluebird K7. He set seven world water speed records in K7 between 1955 and 1964 but was killed instantly when the craft lifted ...

Built in the mid-1950s, the Bluebird K7 is a British jet-powered hydroplane with a long streak of dominance on the water. It was driven by Donald Campbell, who used it to set seven water speed ...

Quicksilver is a UK effort led by Nigel Macknight, which started as a partnership with Ken Norris, the designer of Bluebird K7 and doyen of speed record-breaking. It’s a stepped hydroplane ...

DONALD Campbell’s record-breaking hydroplane, Bluebird K7, has been reunited with the World Water Speed Trophy in Poole. It is the first time since Donald Campbell CBE’s death on Coniston ...

The Bluebird K7 has hit speeds of around 150mph during tests in Scotland but Bill Smith said any attempts to break speed records would be “incredibly foolish” given the boat’s history.

Donald later developed the Bluebird K7 (changing 'Blue Bird' to 'Bluebird') in which he broke the world water speed record 7 times in 10 years. Donald set his first world water speed record of 202 ...

Record-breaking hydroplane Bluebird K7 will return to the Lake District ... the air and disintegrated as he attempted a new water speed record on Coniston Water. In 2001 Campbell’s body, with ...

A painstaking recreation project has brought the iconic Bluebird K7 back to life and the craft ... and disintegrated as he attempted a new water speed record on Coniston Water.

Donald Campbell’s record-breaking hydroplane Bluebird K7 will travel to Poole to reunite with the World Water Speed Trophy for the first time since Donald Campbell CBE’s tragic death in 1967.