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On 1 September 1937, on the Lake Maggiore near Locarno, in Switzerland, Blue Bird K3 set a record of 126.32 mph, [3] breaking Gar Wood's previous 5-year-old record. [1] The next day it improved the record to 129.5 mph.
The Bluebird-Proteus CN7 is a gas turbine-powered vehicle that was driven by Donald Campbell and achieved the world land speed record on Lake Eyre in Australia on 17 July 1964. The vehicle set the FIA world record for the flying mile at 403.1 mph (648.7 km/h).
Bluebird's first record attempt was on 4 February 1927 at Pendine Sands. [2] A peak speed of 195 mph (314 km/h) was achieved, tantalisingly close to the magic 200 mph (320 km/h), but the two-way average recorded for the record was lower, at 174.883 mph (281.45 km/h).
Bluebird K7, in its most successful guise, on display at the Goodwood Motor Racing circuit in July 1960. Bluebird K7 is a jet engined hydroplane in which Britain's Donald Campbell set seven world water speed records between 1955 and 1967. K7 was the first successful jet-powered hydroplane, and was considered revolutionary when launched in ...
The Campbell-Railton Blue Bird was Sir Malcolm Campbell's final land speed record car.. His previous Campbell-Napier-Railton Blue Bird of 1931 was rebuilt significantly. The overall layout and the simple twin deep chassis rails remained, but little else.
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