Donald Campbell, Bluebird and the final record attempt

Sheppard, Neil2011

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On Wednesday 4 January 1967, Donald Campbell was on the second of two runs needed to cement his eighth World Water Speed Record, when his jet hydroplane, Bluebird K7, inexplicably took off from the surface of Coniston Water at some 300mph. Bluebird climbed into the air and completed a full somersault, before finally impacting the water in an enormous cloud of spray. Campbell, the greatest speed record-breaker of them all, was killed instantly. This book is about the last year of his life and that final record attempt. With his achievements as a record-breaker, unrivalled in the national consciousness of the time and sealed in perpetuity by the manner of his death, Campbell became a legend whose like we may never see again.