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Bluebird K7 will be making a special appearance on ... 70 years since Donald Campbell first broke the World Water Speed Record, in which he reached 202.32mph. Tracy Hodgson, Director of the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
His Bluebird K7 encapsulated the technological promise of the Festival of Britain. And between 1955 and 1959 he broke the outright World Water Speed Record on six separate occasions, four of them ...
Campbell used the Bluebird K7 to set seven world water speed records between 1955 and 1964 before he was killed in a crash attempting to beat his own times in 1967. David Aldred is building a new ...
The pilot who will grace Coniston Water with the return of Donald Campbell’s iconic Bluebird K7 has been announced. The hydroplane will be making a comeback in 2026 with the son of a World 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 ...
Donald Campbell's Bluebird K7 hydroplane has gone on show close to ... while trying to increase the world water speed record to more than 300mph (480km/h). His daughter, Gina Campbell, unveiled ...
At a Royal Motor Yacht Club event in Poole on Friday, Gina Campbell, said it was "another important milestone in the history of Bluebird K7". Mr Campbell piloted the craft to seven water-speed ...
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.
This year the Ruskin Museum made international headlines as Donald Campbell’s Bluebird K7 returned to the museum ... a Land Rover from a 1960 land speed attempt and a prototype Bluebird JetStar ...