Designed by Ken and Lew Norris, the Bluebird K7 was an all-metal jet-propelled 3-point hydroplane with a Metropolitan-Vickers Beryl jet engine producing of thrust.

Campbell now reverted to Bluebird K7 for a further attempt on the water speed record.

Bluebird K7 was fitted with a lighter and more powerful Bristol Orpheus engine, taken from a Folland Gnat jet aircraft, which developed of thrust.

The official report stated Campbell was killed when Bluebird K7 flipped and disintegrated at a speed in excess of.

Donald Campbell and Bluebird K7 at high speed on Coniston Water in 1967

A project is under way to rebuild ' K7 ', aimed at returning Bluebird to run again at safe demonstration speeds on Coniston before housing her at the Ruskin museum.

* Bluebird Project website with information on the recovery of K7 and her restoration

* Bluebird K7, a high speed hydroplane raced by Donald Campbell

The song inspired an effort to recover both Campbell's body and the " Bluebird K7 ," the boat which Campbell crashed in, from the water.

* 1964: On 31 December, Donald Campbell broke the world water speed record in the Bluebird K7 on Lake Dumbleyung.

Between 1956 and 1959 Sir Malcolm's son Donald Campbell set four successive records on the lake in Bluebird K7, a hydroplane.

On January 4, 1967 he achieved a top speed of over 320 miles per hour ( 515 km / h ) in Bluebird K7 on the return leg of a record-breaking attempt.

Donald Campbell set the world water speed record on Ullswater on July 23, 1955, when he piloted the jet-propelled hydroplane " Bluebird K7 " to a speed of 202. 32 mph ( 325. 53 km / h ).

Also used for the bodywork of Bluebird K7 used for the Coniston speed record attempt by the late Donald Campbell

The Bluebird K7 jet-propelled 3-point hydroplane in which Donald Campbell broke the 200mph water speed barrier was powered with a Metropolitan-Vickers Beryl jet engine producing 3, 500 lbf ( 16 kN ) of thrust.

Donald Campbell and Bluebird K7 at high speed on Coniston Water in 1967

Bluebird K7 had been re-engined with a Bristol Siddeley Orpheus jet rated at 4500 lbf ( 20 kN ) thrust.

Bluebird K7 was over a decade old, and an American called Lee Taylor was threatening the record with a new boat, Hustler.

His boat Hustler was similar in design to Bluebird K7, being a jet hydroplane.

They have built and run the first pure thrust jet hydroplane, a successor to Donald Campbell's Bluebird K7, at Coniston Water since Campbell's last fatal attempt.

In 2001, Bluebird K7 was raised from Coniston Water by members of the Bluebird Project.

Dumbleyung Lake received world recognition when Donald Campbell broke the world water speed record on it on 31 December 1964, travelling at 444. 66 km / h ( 276. 3 mph ) in his boat Bluebird K7.

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.

It relied on an engine based on the Bluebird and used Bluebird suspension components.

Campbell began his speed record attempts using his father's old boat Bluebird K4, but after a structural failure at on Coniston Water, Lancashire in 1951, and the death of John Cobb, who was killed in 1952 trying to break the water speed record, he decided that he would develop a new boat.

Bluebird CN7 on display at the National Motor Museum in Beaulieu.

In 1969, after Campbell's fatal accident, his 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.

Campbell's speed on his final Lake Eyre run remained the highest speed achieved by a wheel-driven car until 2001 ; Bluebird CN7 is now on display at the National Motor Museum in Hampshire, England, her potential only partly realised.

This was a normal option that Campbell had available to him when operating Bluebird on high speed runs.

However, the area in the centre of the course, where Bluebird was travelling at peak speed on her return run was calm, and not disturbed by the wash from the first run, which had not had time to be reflected back on the course.

After the Master and Variety labels collapsed in late 1937, Mills placed Ellington back on Brunswick and those small group units on Vocalion through 1940, when Ellington signed back to Victor ( and the small groups were placed on Bluebird ).

Released in November 1967, it includes " Mr. Soul " ( the version of which that appears as the B side of the edited " Bluebird " has a completely different guitar lead than the stereo LP version and has yet to be issued on CD ), " Rock & Roll Woman ", " Bluebird ", " Sad Memory ", and " Broken Arrow.

" The group was featured playing " Bluebird " in an episode of the television series Mannix called " Warning: Live Blueberries ", which aired on October 28, 1967.

Unlike the studio version – which winds down after the instrumental break with a plaintive rendition of the third verse, accompanied by a banjo – in live performances the opening verses of " Bluebird " served as a springboard for an extended jam session, during which Stills, Young and Furay intertwined guitars for minutes on end.

Paul and Beth Garon's 1992 biography on Memphis Minnie, Woman With Guitar: Memphis Minnie's Blues, makes no mention of a marriage to Weldon, but only says that she recorded two sides with him, in November 1935, for Bluebird Records.

The first Bluebird was produced shortly after and is on display at the Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens.

Alla Sizova, who seems to have made a special hit in the East, was delightful as the lady Bluebird and her partner, Yuri Soloviev, was wonderfully virile, acrobatic, and poetic all at the same time, in a tradition not unlike that of Nijinsky.

By 1964, Bluebird was being built at 10, 000 cars a month.

Bluebird had completed a north-south run at an average of, and a peak speed of.

Daughter Gina Campbell has been heavily involved in the project to restore the " Bluebird ", and has also contributed to the family legacy in a more direct way, by setting the women's world water speed record in 1984 in " Bluebird II ", at.

The original Z was sold in October 1969 in Japan as the Nissan Fairlady Z and was sold in Japan at Nissan Exhibition dealerships that previously sold the Nissan Bluebird.

The Aryan Brotherhood is believed to have been formed by a group of Irish bikers in 1964 at San Quentin State Prison, but it may have been derived from or inspired by the Bluebird Gang.

During the 1870s, a small community named Arch Beach had been started at the mouth of Bluebird Canyon.

It can be reached from the city centre by bus routes 1, 2, 13, 19 and 20 operated by First Aberdeen and from northern Aberdeenshire or the bus station at Union Square by various routes operated by Stagecoach Bluebird.

* Juanita, a waitress at the Bluebird Diner, who is never seen ( flirts with Barney over the phone )

* Together at the Bluebird Café w / Guy Clark and Steve Earle-2001 ( recorded September 1995 )

* Western Bluebird page at Cornell

* Western Bluebird Information at USGS Patuxent Bird Identification Infocenter

The cars were built under contract at Campbell Motor Industries in Thames ; the preceding Bluebird had been built at NZ Motor Bodies in Auckland.