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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 ...
David Aldred worked on the restoration of Donald Campbell's Bluebird K7 [BBC] ... Campbell used the Bluebird K7 to set seven world water speed records between 1955 and 1964 before he was killed in ...
Bluebird K7 was the seventh boat registered at Lloyds in the "Unlimited" series. Campbell set seven world water speed records in K7 between July 1955 and December 1964. The first of these marks was set at Ullswater on 23 July 1955, where he achieved a speed of 202.32 mph (325.60 km/h) but only after many months of trials and a major redesign of ...
Bluebird K7 is within the scope of the WikiProject Water sports, ... but the restoration project makes Bluebird a special case.
His body and boat (Bluebird K7) were discovered and recovered by divers in 2001 and he was buried in the new graveyard in Coniston in September 2001. A new wing has been built at the Ruskin Museum to accommodate the fully restored Bluebird K7 boat. It opened in late 2009 with the K7 due to have arrived in late 2011 or early 2012. [11]
The museum strongly disputed The Bluebird Project Ltd's ownership claims, as they agreed to restore K7 "at no cost to the museum", [7] funded by "public donations and raising money through sales of merchandise." [8] K7 was to be put on permanent display for public and educational benefit as per the Deed of Gift agreed in 2006.
All cruises access the scene of Donald Campbell's crash in Bluebird K7. The Full Lake cruise goes to Lake Bank – the extreme south of Coniston Water – the place from where Gondola originally picked up her passengers in the 1860s. The waiting room is still to be seen, restored by the Rawdon Smith Trust to the Furness Railway's livery.
Blue Bird or Bluebird is the name of various cars and boats used by Sir Malcolm Campbell, his son Donald and other family members to set land and water speed records. Origins of the name [ edit ]