The famed jet boat Bluebird returned to the water Saturday for the first time since a 1967 crash that killed pilot Donald Campbell during a world speed-record attempt. Watched by well-wishers ...

She was just 17 when she was told Donald Campbell’s Bluebird K7 had crashed and sunk in Coniston Water while attempting to set a daring new speed record. So it was with mixed emotions that Ms ...

Bluebird was meant to help set a new top speed on the water. And it did more than that. Throughout about ten years, Campbell drove the K7 to seven world water speed records. The eight attempt was ...

When Donald Campbell's rebuilt Bluebird K7 made a return to water more than 50 years after the crash that claimed the record-breaker's life, it was hailed a triumph of engineering ingenuity.

But Donald Campbell’s career was cut tragically short in 1967 when he was killed a split second before breaking his own water speed record in his jet-powered boat, the Bluebird K7. He was ...

A restored Bluebird ran on Loch Fad on the Isle of Bute in August 2018 Donald Campbell's restored Bluebird will finally return to the Lake District on Saturday, nearly 60 years after the crash ...

It was on Coniston Water in Cumbria that Bluebird K7 flipped over at over 300mph, killing Campbell. The author, Neil Sheppard, claims in his book, Donald Campbell, Bluebird and the Final Record ...

With its revolutionary design and record breaking speeds Sir Malcolm Campbell’s Bluebird K3 speedboat was the stuff of adventures. Motivated by a very British desire to cock a snook at the ...

Campbell was killed on Coniston Water in Cumbria in January 1967 when his Bluebird K7 flipped over while traveling at speeds of more than 300mph. The horrific accident has been the subject of ...

It is 90 years since Sir Malcolm Campbell set a world land speed record ... driving the same Blue Bird car - but at a more sedate speed. Hywel Griffith reports.