Bluebird K7

Tyg Tickets Bluebird K7 The Festival, The Ruskin Museum, 15 Yewdale Road, Coniston, Cumbria, LA21 8DU.

Tickets are now on sale for Park and Ride for Bluebird K7 – The Festival. Bluebird will be on display and launched at The Boating Centre on Lake Road. THERE WILL BE NO PARKING AT THE BOATING CENTRE. You can buy tickets for park and ride here (daily) bluebirdk7thefestival.tygit.com/shop/dates/p...

Donate - Bluebird K7 The Festival Support Bluebird K7 – The Festival  11th – 17th May 2026    Bluebird K7 – The Festival is a free event, and is open to everyone — but running it isn’t free, there are a lot of costs involved in puttin...

Bluebird K7 – The Festival is a free event, and is open to everyone — but running it isn’t free, there are a lot of costs involved in putting this event on.

Your support will help cover the essential event costs and is greatly appreciated.

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Oil painting, half-length portrait of Donald Campbell wearing a blue jumper, left hand in his pocket, right hand resting on the nose of the speed record car Bluebird CN7, which fills most of the background

Finished the #portrait of Donald Campbell and Bluebird CN7. #OilPainting on cotton duck-covered panel, 12in x 16in
What do you think?

1966 Toyota Soorts 800 Race Car Project

1966 Toyota Soorts 800 Race Car Project

1966 Toyota Soorts 800 Race Car Project

1966 Toyota Soorts 800 Race Car Project

good morning - I try not to post too many projects here, but every once in a while something comes along that either has (1) a fascinating/mysterious history or (2) offers a compelling ownership prospect

and this one checks both boxes

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1998 Mercedes Benz SL500

1998 Mercedes Benz SL500

1998 Mercedes Benz SL500

1998 Mercedes Benz SL500

goodnight y’all, goodnight Seahawks, goodnight city of Seattle, and goodnight to whichever Swedish resident originally spec’d this Designo R129

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ITV Granada report on the Bluebird Festival, where Bluebird K7 will run on Coniston Water again for the first time since 1967 www.itv.com/watch/news/d...

1970 Ford Escort Mk1 RS1600 BDA Zakspeed Tribute

1970 Ford Escort Mk1 RS1600 BDA Zakspeed Tribute

1970 Ford Escort Mk1 RS1600 BDA Zakspeed Tribute

1970 Ford Escort Mk1 RS1600 BDA Zakspeed Tribute

good morning, might just post Ford race cars today

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Diana Barnato Walker at the controls of an Airspeed Oxford

Diana Barnato Walker UK #pilot. #WWII early Air Transport Auxiliary #ATA pilot flying 80 types of aircraft & delivering 260 Spitfires. 1963 1st British woman to break sound barrier flying at Mach 1.6, a world air speed record for women. b. #OTD 15 Jan 1918 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_B...

"La Jamais Contente" 1899 speed record electric torpedo car 100 KPH / 62 MPH

The fastest car in the world (in 1899)

#Art

During 1935 Britain decided to try and win back the air speed record held by Italy. But with war looming and delays with the Spitfire, things wouldn't go to plan.

Read our article at www.classicwarbirds.co.uk/articles/the... and find out about the High Speed Spitfire. #aviation

Pulling remains with Rodin for sophomore GB3 season - Formula Scout Abbi Pulling will stay with Rodin Motorsport as she embarks on a second GB3 campaign in 2026.

Abbi Pulling stays with Rodin Motorsport as she embarks on a second GB3 campaign:

Great video featuring Sir Malcolm Campbell’s role in Daytona becoming one of the motorsport capitals of the world

It's #Rolex24 week, and that means the racing season is BACK!

Ever wondered how Rolex first got its start in racing? It all comes down to one fella named Sir Malcolm Campbell.

#imsa #motorsport #motorsporthistory

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Bluebird K7 - The Festival Donald Campbell's record breaking hydroplane, Bluebird K7 will take to Coniston Water again for the first time in 59 years. Follow this channel for exclusive coverage of the event.

Bluebird K7 The Festival has launched a YouTube Channel - check here for content relating to the running of Bluebird on Coniston Water in May this year youtube.com/@bluebirdk7t...

Donald Campbell's Bluebird to feature in first Lady Mayor's Show Next month's procession in London will see Donald Campbell's restored hydroplane carried by a truck.

#BluebirdK7 to appear at the Lady Mayor's Show in November

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Donald Campbell’s Bluebird K7 hydroplane to return to Cumbrian waters - if 10mph speed limit lifted www.itv.com/news/border/...

The Blue Bird car on the salt at Bonneville flats, surrounded by its crew

On this day in 1935, Malcolm Campbell took the world land speed record beyond 300mph for the first time, in his Rolls-Royce R powered Blue Bird, at Bonneville salt flats, Nevada

Digital artwork of the hydroplane Bluebird at speed before the wooded slopes of a lake

70 years ago today, Donald Campbell broke the world water speed record, after six years of trying. A new world record of 202mph was set, smashing the previous mark of 178mph
First Of Many depicts Donald Campbell in Bluebird on his way to the record on Ullswater. Prints available in due course

YouTube video by Military Aviation TV The True Story of The World's Fastest Helicopter: G-LYNX. #lynx #westlands #fastest #army #nato

#OTD 1986 Westland Lynx G-LYNX fitted with BERP tip main rotors flew a 15 km course across the Somerset Levels, averaging a world record speed of 400.87 km/h (249.10 mph). youtu.be/26D97MaKXbM

Apologies for the insufficient footage of Kingswear Castle here, but I was in an inflatable kayak being run down by the Greenway ferry, and dealing with somebody making an epic arse of trying to stick his yacht onto a pontoon whilst his crew was doing nothing to remind him of our presence...

An infographic showing the crane that lifted the Mary Rose, compared to the size of The Elizabeth Tower (Big Ben), the Statue of Liberty and 10.5 double decker buses.

How big was Tog Mor, the crane that lifted the Mary Rose?

Pretty Big...

Sporting her brightly coloured (blue, green & light grey) disruptive camouflage, HMCS QU'APPELLE sits alongside at Londonderry in May 1944. Photo was taken from HMCS TRENTONIAN. @RLitwiller #RCNavy Photo Collection. See MORE zurl.co/lBEmW

Looking forward to that

Black-and-white photo of smiling man in jacket and tie, standing in a broad field, holding a Meerschaum pipe.

Happy to say I'll be writing the #biography of 1920s-30s speed flier Frank Hawks for @tamupress.bsky.social. Handsome, charming, and daring, he set records and drew crowds all across the Americas and in Europe, and he even starred in the movies. (Photo, 1929: Library and Archives Canada) — #avgeeks

The very first Ford Transit van rolled off the production line #OnThisDay, 9 August, in 1965. A firm favourite with tradesmen over the years. The list price was £542 in 1965. #FordTransit

A remarkable record-breaking vehicle - and even in the right colour

Next year the boat will be run on Coniston Water by a different team with engineering support from Babcock, so with any luck things will go more smoothly

Yes, there were a few runs on the very small Loch Fad. It revealed a number of problems to address - hull and sponsons leaked constantly, the canopy blew off, and during the final high speed run, the driver momentarily lost control and almost hit the pier. But it was a great milestone

Black-and-white illustration of biplane in steep climb over rural landscape. Text: THE WESTLAND WAPITI. General purposes Aircraft as supplied to the Royal Air Force, Royal Australian Air Force, and South African Air Force. Fitted with Jupiter VIII or Jaguar Engine. All metal or composite wood and metal construction. WESTLAND AIRCRAFT WORKS (Branch of Petters Limited). Works: YEOVIL, ENGLAND. Telegrams: Aircraft 141 Yeovil. Telephone: Yeovil 141

Ad illustration for the Westland Wapiti, Yeovil UK. Makes me dizzy just to look at it! (The Aeroplane, October 16, 1929. Artist: John R?) — #avgeeks