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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 ...
Bluebird K7 on display at Goodwood Motor Racing circuit in 1960. Campbell began his speed record attempts in the summer of 1949, using his father's old boat, Blue Bird K4, which he renamed Bluebird K4. His initial attempts that summer were unsuccessful, although he did come close to raising his father's existing record.
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).
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Orpheus engines, numbers 709 (destroyed by FOD in testing) and 711 (running) powered the Bluebird K7 hydroplane in which Donald Campbell was killed whilst attempting the water speed record on Lake Coniston in 1967. [13] A dragster powered by an Orpheus, the "Vampire", is the current holder of the British land speed record.
Bluebird Mach 1.1 (CMN-8) was a design for a rocket-powered supersonic land speed record car, planned by Donald Campbell but thwarted by his subsequent death during a water speed record attempt in Bluebird K7 in early 1967. [1] Donald Campbell decided a massive jump in speed was called for following his successful 1964 LSR attempt in Bluebird CN7.
Blue Bird K3 is a hydroplane powerboat commissioned in 1937 by Sir Malcolm Campbell, to rival the Americans' efforts in the fight for the world water speed record. She set three world water speed records , first on Lake Maggiore in September 1937, then later twice raising her own record.
2. "On 24 February 2023, The Ruskin Museum served legal papers on Bill Smith and Bluebird Project Ltd to ensure that the rebuilt Bluebird K7 was handed to its owners.[23] In December 2022, The Ruskin Museum had announced WEC Group Ltd as its chosen engineering partners who will maintain Bluebird K7 once she is returned to Coniston.[24]