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Campbell was killed in January 1967 when Bluebird somersaulted as he attempted to push his world water speed record past 300mph (480km/h) on Coniston Water. The craft has been on show at the ...
Donald Campbell's record-breaking Bluebird will run again on Coniston Water after a 23-year restoration project, the Ruskin Museum has announced as the boat was returned to the Lake District.
Donald Campbell's boat, Bluebird K7, will run again on Coniston Water, the Ruskin Museum has announced at its homecoming press conference. The hydroplane's wreckage was recovered in 2001 after its ...
Donald Campbell's Bluebird will return to Coniston Water after a long-running dispute ended yesterday. Mr Campbell's body and the K7 hydroplane sunk to the bottom of the lake in Cumbria after it ...
Show more Matt Baker is in Coniston to find out about the planned return to the water of Donald Campbell's iconic boat, Bluebird, and what this will mean to the village which has protected it ...
The record-breaking Bluebird K7, which crashed on the Lake District’s Coniston Water in 1967, killing its pilot, could soon run again on the iconic lake. The hydroplane flipped into the air and ...
Given the interest in Bluebird on her return to Coniston, the team says any outing on the water is going to require major people management plans and working with the authorities. Mr Carroll ...
But it tragically crashed and sank to the bottom of Coniston water back in 1967, taking Campbell with it. Gina Campbell with the restored Bluebird K7 before it takes to the water for the first ...
the Bluebird K7. He was travelling at more than 300mph on Coniston Water in the Lake District when the nose on his 12-year-old vessel lifted and he was dramatically catapulted 50ft into the air.
Donald Campbell's famous Bluebird boat will sail again on Coniston Water. The record-breaking Bluebird K7 has been fixed up and is now at the Ruskin Museum in Coniston, Cumbria. Donald Campbell ...