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The First Cars To Break Every Important Speed RecordHis son, Donald Campbell, became the last person to set a land speed record without jet propulsion in 1964 when he clocked 403.10 mph in a Bluebird-Proteus CN7 with a 4,000-hp gas turbine engine.
Also in 1964 he set a new world land speed record of 403.10 mph at Lake Eyre in Australia. On 4 January 1967 Donald Campbell was on Coniston Water in Bluebird when the front of the boat flipped up ...
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The Mail on MSNLake District: Bluebird K7 back on display in ConistonThe Ruskin Museum celebrated the 104th birthday of Donald Campbell CBE on Sunday, March 23, which coincided with Bluebird's return to public life.
Early next year at Pendine, Malcolm Campbell hit 174.883 mph in his Napier 'Bluebird ... Pendine passed from the history of the World Land Speed Record. Forty-two years later, Babs was recovered ...
Captain Malcolm Campbell, later Sir Malcolm Campbell, with his car Bluebird, probably in January 1931 when it was put on public display before setting a new land speed record at Daytona Beach in ...
A 10-year journey to reunite the Bluebird K7 with Donald Campbell's former car will be completed this July. Kevin Shilling restored the AC Aceca, also nicknamed Bluebird, over a three-year period from ...
The first is the CN7, named after the Bluebird Proteus CN7, a gas turbine-powered car that earned Donald Campbell the World Land Speed Record in 1964. Featuring a blue dial reminiscent of the ...
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