Debating the speed limit exemption application, Steve Ratcliffe, LDNPA director of sustainable development, told colleagues ...

Back in August, a team of 14 British engineers led by a man named Bill Smith announced that the long-lost Bluebird, a jet engined hydroplane, is ready to float again, after half of century of lying ...

‘Bluebird K7 – The Festival’ will take place from Monday, May 11, to Sunday, May 17, 2026, marking the first time the boat ...

Donald Campbell's restored Bluebird takes to the water of Loch Fad in 2018 - MARTIN BARRAUD/GETTY IMAGES The Bluebird K7 hydrofoil in which record-breaker Donald Campbell was killed will be sent to a ...

One of the fastest and most remarkable watercraft ever built, the Bluebird K7, returned to the water for the first time this past weekend after an absence of 51 years, 34 of which were spent at the ...

Model, scale 1:6, of the motor-boat 'Bluebird K7', 1954. Promotional, trade, whole model of 'Bluebird K7', World Water Speed Record contender, 1955. Scale 1:6 The model shows the tail fin added in ...

You might wonder how it is that Richard Noble OBE, entrepreneur and holder of the land speed record (LSR) between 1983 and 1997, is now, at the age of 79, considering a tilt at inspiring the fastest ...

The Bluebird K7, the world's first successful jet-engined hydroplane and a multiple-record holder for speed on water, is back at home in Coniston, Cumbria, in the UK. Its road back home was long, ...

The legendary hydroplane Bluebird K7 returned to Ullswater for the 70th anniversary of Donald Campbell achieving his first world water speed record. Racing across the surface at an incredible speed of ...

09:57, Fri, Mar 28, 2025 Updated: 09:57, Fri, Mar 28, 2025 Britain's most iconic record-breaker has a new jet engine to rocket her into history … across the same lake where she tragically crashed and ...

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