It was in November of 2011 that they tried to run the K777 boat at Lake Coniston. Would like to see whether on smooth water and with enough time to properly balance the boat whether they can at least get it on plane.
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It was in November of 2011 that they tried to run the K777 boat at Lake Coniston. Would like to see whether on smooth water and with enough time to properly balance the boat whether they can at least get it on plane.
British Pathe newsreel of Sir Malcolm Campbell's jet hydroplane - MALCOLM CAMPBELL issue title PATHE PICTORIAL HUNTS FOR THRILLS - British Pathé
Short film clip of 1955 Bluebird (before the forward spar was raised) - 31709424 - Stock Footage from BBC Motion Gallery
The British Pursuit project from 1980. This boat ended up as a total clusterfoxtrot and could not even get on plane. - Home - British Pursuit
Hellbent
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Interesting. When I was looking at the land speed bluebird I found a pic with a bubble canopy next to the car...I figured they must have tried it at one point:
They used the bubble canopy on the 1960 car, the one that crashed at Bonneville. However, in the January issue of Racecar Engineering there's a photo of the car with the aluminum canopy but with with a rounded windscreen instead of the flat panels.
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I was surprised at how violent slowing the boat down seemed to be. As soon as you got off the thrust that nose would drop and throw a huge wall of water in front of the boat. On a few of the videos it looked like it was actually submarining a bit but there was so much water in the air you couldn't see it clearly.
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