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 ...

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 ...

Donald Campbell's Bluebird K7 is set to reunite with the World Water Speed Trophy. The hydroplane, which broke records before Campbell's tragic death on Coniston Water in 1967, will visit the ...

While at 300mph Campbell’s Bluebird K7 of the 1950s had a safe variation of angle of four degrees, the Thrust WSR team calculated that at 450mph that angle was reduced to just one degree.

The story of the boat speed record is also fascinating. Speed boats are fast, exhilarating, and undeniably fun, ... He was the first to crest 300 mph in his Bluebird K7 in 1967, ...