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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 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 ...
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.
The song inspired an effort to recover both Campbell's body and the "Bluebird K7", the boat which Campbell crashed in, from the water. [51] The recovery was finally undertaken in 2001, and both Steve Hogarth and Steve Rothery were invited. [52] In 1998, Steve Hogarth said he considered Afraid of Sunlight the best album he made with the band. [53]
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British speedboat racer Donald Campbell was attempting to become the first person to race a boat at 300 mph (480 km/h) and apparently reached that speed in his jet-powered hydrofoil Bluebird K7 on Coniston Water, a lake in Lancashire, England. Campbell had reached 297 mph (478 km/h) on his north to south run over 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) and was ...
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