Bluebird - Donald Campbell's land speed record breaker at Beaulieu National Motor Museum

Bluebird - Donald Campbell's land speed record breaker at Beaulieu National Motor Museum Stock Photo

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4896 x 3186 px | 41.5 x 27 cm | 16.3 x 10.6 inches | 300dpi

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2012

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Beaulieu National Motor Museum, UK

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Bluebird Year 1961 Donald Campbell set a new World Land Speed Record of 403.10mph/648.73kph in this car on 17 July 1964. Bluebird cost £1 million to make and was powered by a Bristol-Siddeley Proteus 4, 100hp gas turbine engine. The tail fin was a late addition, after a disastrous crash at Bonneville, Utah in 1960. Lake Eyre, South Australia was then chosen because it was a desolate, flat, salt plain. However, untypical rain became one of a series of frustrating delays that dragged the record attempt on for two years. When the record was finally attained, Campbell returned to water speed record breaking.

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