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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.
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. ... which has two jet engines ...
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.
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The name Blue Bird was originally inspired by the play of that name by Maurice Maeterlinck, [1] and the vehicles were painted a shade of azure blue.. Malcolm Campbell had a succession of Darracq racing cars in the 1920s, which in the fashion of the day he had named 'Flapper I' , 'Flapper II' and 'Flapper III' .
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A subsequent marine gas turbine engine was the G.2 of 4,500 shp fitted to the Royal Navy Bold-class fast patrol boats Bold Pioneer and Bold Pathfinder, which were built in 1953. [ 8 ] The Bluebird K7 jet-propelled 3-point hydroplane in which Donald Campbell broke the 200 mph water speed barrier was powered with a Metropolitan-Vickers Beryl jet ...