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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

The average speed of a cruise ship is only around 20 ... He was the first to crest 300 mph in his Bluebird K7 in 1967, but died in a crash before he could complete the run and make his time ...

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 ...

It will be fantastic." Campbell had already set seven world water speed records in an earlier version of the Bluebird K7 speedboat when he went for that eighth record attempt on Coniston Water in ...

Donald Campbell's restored Bluebird K7 is to be piloted by the son of a ... the Lake District as he attempted to push his own water speed record past 300mph (480km/h). Having been recovered ...

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.