"the record. After Campbell's death, the project continued at a low key for some years, still involving Leo Villa, with Norris as Design Consultant from 1968-1971. In 1973, Nigel McKnight became involved, but failed to raise the necessary sponsorship. The model disappeared and its present whereabouts are unknown. It was possibly buried in building foundations, along with the wrecked sponsons ""Bluebird K7"". The project is little-known today, although some model makers offer replicas. The full story of Campbell's stillborn rocket car is told in 'Donald Campbell Bluebird and The Final Record Attempt' published in late 2011. Bluebird Mach 1.1 Bluebird"
"the 1950s. He died attempting to break the world water speed record for the eighth time in 1967, when his jet boat, ""Bluebird K7"", crashed at , having already set the record for the seventh time at Dumbleyung Lake, Western Australia in 1964. His body and boat (""Bluebird K7"") were discovered and recovered by divers in 2001 and he was buried in the new graveyard in Coniston in September 2001. A new wing has been built at the Ruskin Museum to accommodate the fully restored Bluebird K7 boat. It opened in late 2009 with the K7 due to arrive in"
"to lose stability and 400 m before the end of the kilometre, Bluebird's nose lifted beyond its critical pitch angle and she started to rise out of the water at a 45 degree angle. The boat took off, somersaulted and then plunged nose-first into the lake, breaking up as she cartwheeled across the surface. Campbell was killed instantly. Prolonged searches over the next two weeks located the wreck, but it was not until May 2001 that Campbell's body was finally located and recovered. Campbell was buried in the churchyard at Coniston on 12 September 2001. Lee Taylor, a Californian boat"
"purpose-built turbojet Hydroplane, ""Crusader"", with a target speed of over , and began trials on Loch Ness in autumn 1952. Cobb was killed later that year, when Crusader broke up, during an attempt on the record. Campbell was devastated at Cobb's loss, but he resolved to build a new Bluebird boat to bring the WSR back to Britain. In early 1953, Campbell began development of his own advanced all-metal jet-powered ""Bluebird K7"" hydroplane to challenge the record, by now held by the American prop rider hydroplane Slo-Mo-Shun IV.[1] Designed by Ken and Lew Norris, the K7 was a steel framed,"
"modified boat was taken back to Coniston in the first week of November 1966. The trials did not go well. The weather was appalling, and ""K7"" suffered an engine failure when her air intakes collapsed and debris was drawn into the engine. By the middle of December, some high-speed runs were made, in excess of but still well below Campbell's existing record. Problems with ""Bluebird""'s fuel system meant that the engine could not reach full rpm, and so would not develop maximum power. Eventually, by the end of December, after further modifications to her fuel system, and the replacement of"
"was forced to buy them back. K4 was then re-engined with a propellor and one of the previous Rolls-Royce R engines. The boat was tried out by Donald Campbell but deemed too slow, so after another superstructure rebuild and finally structural failure in 1951 it was replaced by the jet-powered K7, in which Donald died during a record attempt in 1967. A replica of ""K4"" currently is on show at the Lakeland Motor Museum, Backbarrow. Blue Bird K4 Blue Bird K4 was a powerboat commissioned in 1939 by Sir Malcolm Campbell, to rival the Americans' efforts in the fight for"
"Bluebird Mach 1.1 with a view to raising the LSR towards Mach 1. In January 1967, he was killed in his water-speed record jet hydroplane Bluebird K7. CN7 was eventually restored in 1969, but has never fully run again. In 1969, Campbell's widow, Tonia Bern-Campbell negotiated a deal with Lynn Garrison, President of Craig Breedlove and Associates, that would see Craig Breedlove run Bluebird on Bonneville's Salt Flats. This concept was cancelled when the parallel Spirit of America supersonic car project failed to find support. It became a permanent exhibit at the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu, England in 1972, and"
"""Bluebird K7"" had been re-engined with a Bristol Siddeley Orpheus jet rated at of thrust. On 4 January 1967 he tried again. His first run averaged and a new record seemed in sight. Campbell applied ""K7""'s water brake to slow the craft down from her peak speed of clear of the measured kilometre to a speed around . Rather than waiting for the lake to settle again before starting the mandatory return leg, Campbell immediately turned around at the end of the lake and began his return run. At around , just as she entered the measured kilometre, Bluebird began"
"on the eve of the Second World War, he took it to Coniston Water and increased his record by , to . The return of peace in 1945 brought with it a new form of power for the record breaker – the jet engine. Campbell immediately renovated ""Blue Bird K4"" with a De Havilland Goblin jet engine. The result was a curious-looking craft, whose shoe-like profile led to it being nicknamed ‘The Coniston Slipper’. The experiment with jet-power was not a success and Campbell retired from record-attempts. He died in 1948. On 26 June 1950, ""Slo-Mo-Shun IV"" improved on Campbell's"
"Stockport air disaster The Stockport air disaster occurred on 4 June 1967, when a Canadair C-4 Argonaut passenger aircraft owned by British Midland Airways crashed near the centre of Stockport, Cheshire, England. Of the 84 people on board, 72 were killed, the fourth-worst disaster in British aviation history. The aircraft, registered had been chartered by Arrowsmith Holidays Ltd and had left Palma de Mallorca at 5:00 am, carrying holidaymakers back from the Balearic Islands to Manchester Airport. The approach controller vectored it towards the ILS as soon as it reached the Congleton NDB, but the pilots were apparently unable to"
"1939 on Coniston Water, Lancashire, at 141.740 mph (228.108 km/h or 123.168 kn). After World War II, Sir Malcolm unsuccessfully re-engined K4 with a de Havilland Goblin turbojet engine but did not gain any records. The new superstructure did gain the nickname "" 'The Coniston Slipper' "". Donald Campbell (Malcolm's son) had not previously attempted record-breaking, but after Sir Malcolm's death at the end of 1948, the threat of an American challenge to his water speed record spurred him to defend it. Under the terms of his will, Sir Malcolm's possessions, including the record breakers, were auctioned off and Donald"
"by reporter Frank Bennett as being part of the ""threesome"" arriving for the 1964 record run the others being Campbell himself, and his wife. Bennett remarked that the mascot was in the cockpit each time, along with other memorabilia. Whoppit was with Campbell during his serious crash during a land-speed record attempt at the Bonneville Salt Flats in 1960, driving the Proteus Bluebird. Campbell was killed during a record attempt on Coniston in 1967, while driving the jet hydroplane Bluebird K7. His body wasn't recovered, although Mr Whoppit floated free and was found almost immediately by Leo Villa. Campbell's body"
"off Tuskar Rock in St George's Channel, 26 September 1917. Only one man, who turned out to be the commander, Alfred Arnold, was rescued. The other 27 members of the crew died. was also sunk further off the south Wexford coast, 25 April 1918 – 41 men died and 1 survived. John Redmond, leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party, died at London, 6 March 1918. He was interred in the Redmond family vault at St John's Graveyard, John Street, Wexford, later that same month. A large crowd attended his funeral. The executions of the Dublin-based patriots that followed the Easter"
"Cobb's death in his jet boat ""Crusader"", which broke up at over during a record attempt in September 1952, Campbell began development of his own advanced all-metal jet-powered ""Bluebird K7"" hydroplane to challenge the record, by then held by the American prop rider hydroplane ""Slo-Mo-Shun IV"". Designed by Ken and Lew Norris, the ""K7"" was a steel-framed, aluminium-bodied, three-point hydroplane, built at Samlesbury by Samlesbury Engineering, powered by a Metropolitan-Vickers Beryl axial-flow turbojet engine, producing 3500 pound-force (16 kN) of thrust. Like ""Slo-Mo-Shun"", but unlike Cobb's tricycle ""Crusader"", the three planing points were arranged with two forward and one aft,"
"Sometime later, the boat was found empty, and a search party was launched. They soon retrieved Sir John's body, floating in the water, with a bullet wound through the temple. No weapon was found, but the coroner's court gave a verdict of suicide. His body was brought back to England and he was buried at Mickleham, Surrey, on 18 October 1930. He was 59 years old. His widow Gwladys survived him, dying in 1974 at the age of 101. John Norton-Griffiths Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Norton-Griffiths, 1st Baronet, (13 July 1871 – 27 September 1930) was an engineer, British Army officer"
"suffered a fractured skull and never regained consciousness after being transferred to a hospital in Rouen. His grave in Southern Cemetery, Manchester is marked by a large stone memorial. John Alcock (RAF officer) Captain Sir John William ""Jack"" Alcock (5 November 189218 December 1919) was a Royal Navy and later Royal Air Force officer who, with navigator Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown, piloted the first non-stop transatlantic flight from St. John's, Newfoundland to Clifden, Connemara, Ireland. He died in a flying accident in France in 1919. John Alcock was born on 5 November 1892 at Basford House on Seymour Grove, Firswood,"
"times about the crash. The only survivor of the accident was the pilot Flight Lieutenant Eduard Prchal, one of six crew on the aircraft. The 11 passengers killed were: Sikorski's body was collected by the Polish Navy destroyer and transported to Britain. He was subsequently buried in a brick-lined grave at the Polish War Cemetery in Newark-on-Trent, England, on 16 July that year. Winston Churchill delivered a eulogy at his funeral. The bodies of Sikorski's daughter and four other passengers and crew were not found. Sikorski's death marked a turning point for Polish influence amongst the Anglo-American allies. He had"
"clinging to the boat, which had righted itself. After climbing back into the boat and he found no one aboard except the corpse of a lady passenger dressed in black silk. M'Gartland drifted for several hours before being rescued by the SS ""Enterprise"". Four lifeboats were found empty at the Giant's Causeway, while the stern of the ship drifted ashore at Islay, Scotland. SS Cambria (1869) SS ""Cambria"" was a British cargo-passenger steamship wrecked off the north-west of Ireland on 19 October 1870 with the loss of 178 lives. The iron-hulled ship was built at the Robert Duncan & Co."
"team let it be known that they did not wish to have the hull of ""K7"" recovered in the absence of finding Campbell's body. They also felt they would learn nothing from its recovery. The wreck sat on the lake bed for a further 34 years, its location known by a few people but never disclosed. A diving team led by Bill Smith was responsible for relocating the wreckage and its subsequent recovery was handled by Smith's Bluebird Project team. The wreckage was recovered between October 2000, when the first small sections were raised, and May 2001, when Campbell's body"
"kN) Bristol Siddeley Orpheus engine on loan from the Ministry of Defence. This was both lighter and more powerful than the original engine. Campbell also purchased a crash-damaged Folland Gnat, which used the Orpheus engine, as a source of spare parts. The vertical stabiliser from the Gnat was also used on the rebuilt K7, and a new hydraulic water brake designed to slow the boat down on the five-mile Coniston course. The boat returned to Coniston for trials in November 1966. These did not go well; the weather was appalling and K7 destroyed her engine when the air intakes collapsed"
"to look after the wreck. The main wreckage of Campbell's ""Bluebird K7"" hydroplane was recovered from Coniston Water on 8 March 2001. Both Steve Hogarth and Steve Rothery were present at the raising. The title track refers to self-destructive thrill-seekers such as James Dean, while ""King"" is about Elvis Presley, Kurt Cobain and Michael Jackson. ""Beyond You"" is reminiscent of Phil Spector's Wall of Sound productions and was mixed in mono. Steve Hogarth named the 1980 Martin Scorsese film ""Raging Bull"", about a boxer's inability to deal with fame, as a strong influence on the album. He also cited O."
"controls of the aircraft forward to gain speed. Suddenly I discovered I was not able to pull the stick back. The steering mechanism was jammed or locked."" The aircraft then lost height rapidly. Prchal closed the four throttles and warned the others through the intercom ""Attention, crash"". The aircraft crashed into the sea. Sikorski, his daughter, Tadeusz Klimecki (his Chief of Staff), and eight other passengers were killed. While the official death toll included 11 fatalities, the exact number of passengers was not known. Of the six crew members on board, only Prchal survived. In 1967, Rolf Hochhuth, a German"
"off set of proving trials of Bluebird on Coniston Water, where she will be tested to a safe speed for demonstration purposes only. There was no fixed date for completion of Bluebird K7 or the trials. K7 will be housed in her own purpose-built wing at the Ruskin Museum in Coniston, while remaining in the care of the Bluebird Project. By August 2018, the restoration had progressed far enough that the part-completed craft was transported to the Isle of Bute in Scotland for a low-speed crew training exercise on Loch Fad . The part-restored boat successfully completed runs up to"
"into the sea. The pilot CDR James LaHaye, was killed in action, body not recovered. On 27 May, F-8D BuNo 148706 was shot down near Vinh; the pilot CDR Doyle Lynn was killed in action, body not recovered. On 12 August. F-8D BuNo 147911 was lost; the pilot, LTJG Gene Gollahon, was killed and his remains were returned in March 1974. On 3 November, F-8D BuNo 148635 was shot down; the pilot ejected successfully and was rescued. From 26 May to 16 November 1966, VF-111 equipped with F-8Es was deployed on . On 6 April, F-8E BuNo 150296 was lost;"
"the flying boat station at Felixstowe with the rank of Squadron Leader in the newly formed RAF. On 11 August 1919, Moon survived the crash of the Felixstowe Fury flying boat which killed one of the crew. The Fury was a large five-engined flying boat which had just left Felixstowe on a test flight to Plymouth; she was due the next day to attempt a long-distance 8,000-mile (12,875 km) flight from England to South Africa and return. In December 1919 Moon represented Winston Churchill, Secretary of State for War at the funeral of Sir John Alcock the transatlantic pioneer. On"
"crashed while attempting to land on the ship's deck, falling overboard and sinking in of water. Nine of the ten crewmembers were rescued, with one, the pilot Captain Mark Bingley, dying from injuries. The tenth crewmember, J. N. N. Porter, was lost and declared dead several days later. On 6 March 2007, the Minister for Defence, Brendan Nelson, announced that the Defence Maritime Services vessel MV ""Seahorse Standard"" had recovered Porter's body from a depth of approximately . The predicted coup d'état was carried out with minimal violence and no bloodshed on 4–5 December 2006, with government officials placed under"
"two weeks, without locating his body. Campbell's body was finally located in 2001. Campbell's last words, during a 31-second transmission, on his final run were, via radio intercom: The cause of the crash has been variously attributed to several possible causes (or a combination of these causes): On 28 January 1967 Campbell was posthumously awarded the Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct ""for courage and determination in attacking the world water speed record."" The wreckage of Campbell's craft was recovered by the Bluebird Project between October 2000, when the first sections were raised, and May 2001, when Campbell's body was recovered."
"other expedition members aboard, drifted westward with the ice and was eventually crushed. It sank on January 11, 1914. Four men made their way to Herald Island, but died there, possibly from carbon monoxide poisoning, before they could be rescued. Four other men, including Alistair Mackay who had been part of the Sir Ernest Shackleton's British Antarctic Expedition, tried reaching Wrangel Island on their own but perished. The remaining members of the expedition, under command of Captain Bartlett, made their way to Wrangel Island where three died. Bartlett and his Inuk hunter Kataktovik made their way across sea ice to"
"he was rescued. The engine-driver and a boy acting as a signaller were swept into the water but were rescued; the boy being trapped between baulks of timer later had his leg amputated. The disaster widowed seven women and left 13 children fatherless. It took a month for divers to recover all the bodies, and the victims were buried in three mass graves in Flaybrick Hill Cemetery, Birkenhead, now known as Flaybrick Memorial Gardens. At the ensuing inquest, John Scott's chief engineer claimed that the disaster was probably caused when the base of the coffer dam shifted after pilings from"
"did come close to raising his father's existing record. The team returned to Coniston Water, Lancashire in 1950 for further trials. While there, they heard that an American, Stanley Sayres, had raised the record from , beyond K4's capabilities without substantial modification. Over the winter of 1950 to 1951, Bluebird K4 was modified to make it a 'prop-rider' as opposed to her original immersed propeller configuration. This greatly reduced hydrodynamic drag as the third planing point would now be the propeller hub, meaning one of the two propeller blades was always out of the water at high speed. She now"
"Mobil oil company and then BP. Campbell made an unsuccessful attempt in 1957 at Canandaigua in New York state in the summer of 1957, which failed due to lack of suitable calm water conditions. ""Bluebird K7"" became a well known attraction, and as well as her annual Coniston appearances, ""K7"" was displayed extensively in the UK, USA, Canada and Europe, and then subsequently in Australia during Campbell's prolonged attempt on the land speed record in 1963–64. In order to extract more speed, and endow the boat with greater high speed stability, in both pitch and yaw, ""K7"" was subtly modified"
"1983 British Airways Sikorsky S-61 crash On 16 July 1983 a British Airways Helicopters commercial Sikorsky S-61 helicopter, ""Oscar November"" (G-BEON), crashed in the southern Celtic Sea, in the Atlantic Ocean, when en route from Penzance to St Mary's, Isles of Scilly in poor visibility. Only six of the twenty-six people on board survived. It was Britain's worst helicopter civil aviation accident at the time. An investigation was promptly carried out by the Accidents Investigation Branch (AIB), though calls for a public inquiry were dismissed. The AIB found that the accident was caused by pilot error, in failing to notice"
"Ocean Airways had an exemplary safety record operating Mallards for many years between Florida and the Bahamas, having never had a passenger fatality since the company began operations in 1917. An original radial-engine Mallard, registration VH-CQA, crashed into the Swan River in Perth, Western Australia, on 26 January 2017 during Australia Day celebrations, killing both the pilot, Peter Lynch, and his passenger. Grumman G-73 Mallard The Grumman G-73 Mallard is a medium, twin-engined amphibious aircraft. Many have been modified by replacing the original Pratt & Whitney Wasp H radial engines with modern turboprop engines. Manufactured from 1946 to 1951, production"