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Bluebird K7

Index Bluebird K7

Bluebird K7 is a jet engined hydroplane in which Britain's Donald Campbell set seven world water speed records between 1955 and 1967. [1]

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  1. 80 relations: Air-start system, Airbus, Aircraft engine starting, Aircraft principal axes, Blue Bird K4, Bluebird-Proteus CN7, Bonneville Salt Flats, BP, Bristol Siddeley, Bristol Siddeley Orpheus, Cable grommet, Canandaigua, New York, Center of mass, Coniston Water, Coniston, Cumbria, Crusader (speedboat), Daily Express, Deed of gift, Donald Campbell, Dumbleyung Lake, English wheel, Fire extinguisher, Flameout, Folland Gnat, Gas tungsten arc welding, Guillotine cutting, High Court of Justice, Hunting H.126, Hydroplane, Hydroplane (boat), Industrial radiography, Infinity, Isle of Bute, Jet engine, John Cobb (racing driver), John Crichton-Stuart, 6th Marquess of Bute, Lake Eyre, Lake Mead, Lancashire Aircraft Corporation, Land speed record, Lobster, Loch Fad, Malcolm Campbell, Metropolitan-Vickers, Metropolitan-Vickers F.2, Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom), Mobil, Mr Whoppit, National Police Chiefs' Council, NatureScot, ... Expand index (30 more) »

  2. Bluebird record-breaking vehicles
  3. Jet-powered hydroplanes
  4. Maritime incidents in 1955
  5. Maritime incidents in 1967
  6. Water speed records

Air-start system

An air-start system is a power source used to provide the initial rotation to start large diesel engines and gas turbines.

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Airbus

Airbus SE is a European multinational aerospace corporation.

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Aircraft engine starting

Many variations of aircraft engine starting have been used since the Wright brothers made their first powered flight in 1903.

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Aircraft principal axes

An aircraft in flight is free to rotate in three dimensions: yaw, nose left or right about an axis running up and down; pitch, nose up or down about an axis running from wing to wing; and roll, rotation about an axis running from nose to tail.

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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 the world water speed record. Bluebird K7 and Blue Bird K4 are Bluebird record-breaking vehicles, jet-powered hydroplanes and water speed records.

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Bluebird-Proteus CN7

The Bluebird-Proteus CN7 is a gas turbine-powered vehicle that was driven by Donald Campbell and achieved the world land speed record on Lake Eyre in Australia on 17 July 1964. The vehicle set the FIA world record for the flying mile at. Bluebird K7 and Bluebird-Proteus CN7 are Bluebird record-breaking vehicles.

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Bonneville Salt Flats

The Bonneville Salt Flats are a densely packed salt pan in Tooele County in northwestern Utah, United States.

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BP

BP p.l.c. (formerly The British Petroleum Company p.l.c. and BP Amoco p.l.c.; stylised in all lowercase) is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England.

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Bristol Siddeley

Bristol Siddeley Engines Ltd (BSEL) was a British aero engine manufacturer.

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Bristol Siddeley Orpheus

The Bristol Siddeley Orpheus is a single-spool turbojet developed by Bristol Siddeley for various light fighter/trainer applications such as the Folland Gnat and the Fiat G.91.

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Cable grommet

A cable grommet is a tube or ring through which an electrical cable passes.

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Canandaigua, New York

Canandaigua (Utaʼnaráhkhwaʼ in Tuscarora) is a city in Ontario County, New York, United States.

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Center of mass

In physics, the center of mass of a distribution of mass in space (sometimes referred to as the barycenter or balance point) is the unique point at any given time where the weighted relative position of the distributed mass sums to zero.

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Coniston Water

Coniston Water is a lake in the Lake District in North West England. Bluebird K7 and Coniston Water are water speed records.

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Coniston, Cumbria

Coniston is a village and civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England.

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Crusader (speedboat)

Crusader was a jet-powered speed boat piloted by John Cobb. Bluebird K7 and Crusader (speedboat) are jet-powered hydroplanes and water speed records.

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Daily Express

The Daily Express is a national daily United Kingdom middle-market newspaper printed in tabloid format.

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Deed of gift

A deed of gift is a signed legal document that voluntarily and without recompense transfers ownership of real, personal, or intellectual property – such as a gift of materials – from one person or institution to another.

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Donald Campbell

Donald Malcolm Campbell, (23 March 1921 – 4 January 1967) was a British speed record breaker who broke eight absolute world speed records on water and on land in the 1950s and 1960s. Bluebird K7 and Donald Campbell are water speed records.

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Dumbleyung Lake

Dumbleyung Lake, also widely known as Lake Dumbleyung, is a salt lake in the Great Southern region of Western Australia.

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English wheel

The English wheel, in Britain also known as a wheeling machine, is a metalworking tool that enables a craftsperson to form compound (double curvature) curves from flat sheets of metal such as aluminium or steel.

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Fire extinguisher

A fire extinguisher is a handheld active fire protection device usually filled with a dry or wet chemical used to extinguish or control small fires, often in emergencies.

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Flameout

In aviation, a flameout (or flame-out) is the run-down of a jet engine or other turbine engine due to the extinguishment of the flame in its combustor.

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Folland Gnat

The Folland Gnat is a British compact swept-wing subsonic fighter aircraft that was developed and produced by Folland Aircraft.

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Gas tungsten arc welding

Gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW, also known as tungsten inert gas welding or TIG, and heliarc welding when helium is used) is an arc welding process that uses a non-consumable tungsten electrode to produce the weld.

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Guillotine cutting

Guillotine cutting is the process of producing small rectangular items of fixed dimensions from a given large rectangular sheet, using only guillotine-cuts.

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High Court of Justice

The High Court of Justice in London, known properly as His Majesty's High Court of Justice in England, together with the Court of Appeal and the Crown Court, are the Senior Courts of England and Wales.

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Hunting H.126

The Hunting H.126 was an experimental aircraft designed and built by British aviation company Hunting Aircraft.

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Hydroplane

Hydroplaning and hydroplane may refer to.

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Hydroplane (boat)

A hydroplane (or hydro, or thunderboat) is a fast motorboat, where the hull shape is such that at speed, the weight of the boat is supported by planing forces, rather than simple buoyancy.

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Industrial radiography

Industrial radiography is a modality of non-destructive testing that uses ionizing radiation to inspect materials and components with the objective of locating and quantifying defects and degradation in material properties that would lead to the failure of engineering structures.

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Infinity

Infinity is something which is boundless, endless, or larger than any natural number.

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Isle of Bute

The Isle of Bute (Buit; Eilean Bhòid or An t-Eilean Bòdach), known as Bute, is an island in the Firth of Clyde in Scotland, United Kingdom.

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Jet engine

A jet engine is a type of reaction engine, discharging a fast-moving jet of heated gas (usually air) that generates thrust by jet propulsion.

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John Cobb (racing driver)

John Rhodes Cobb (2 December 1899 – 29 September 1952) was an early to mid 20th century English racing motorist. Bluebird K7 and John Cobb (racing driver) are water speed records.

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John Crichton-Stuart, 6th Marquess of Bute

John Crichton-Stuart, 6th Marquess of Bute, (27 February 1933 – 21 July 1993) was a Scottish peer, benefactor and patron of the arts.

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Lake Eyre

Lake Eyre, officially known as Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre, is an endorheic lake in the east-central part of the Far North region of South Australia, some north of Adelaide.

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Lake Mead

Lake Mead is a reservoir formed by the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River in the Southwestern United States.

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Lancashire Aircraft Corporation

Lancashire Aircraft Corporation was a major British charter airline after World War II.

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Land speed record

The land speed record (LSR) or absolute land speed record is the highest speed achieved by a person using a vehicle on land.

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Lobster

Lobsters are malacostracans of the family Nephropidae (synonym Homaridae).

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Loch Fad

Loch Fad is a freshwater loch on the Isle of Bute in Scotland.

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Malcolm Campbell

Major Sir Malcolm Campbell (11 March 1885 – 31 December 1948) was a British racing motorist and motoring journalist. Bluebird K7 and Malcolm Campbell are water speed records.

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Metropolitan-Vickers

Metropolitan-Vickers, Metrovick, or Metrovicks, was a British heavy electrical engineering company of the early-to-mid 20th century formerly known as British Westinghouse.

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Metropolitan-Vickers F.2

The Metropolitan-Vickers F.2 is an early turbojet engine and the first British design to be based on an axial-flow compressor.

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Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)

The Ministry of Defence (MOD or MoD) is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom.

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Mobil

Mobil is a petroleum brand owned and operated by American oil and gas corporation ExxonMobil.

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Mr Whoppit

Mr Whoppit was the teddy bear mascot of Donald Campbell, the land and water speed record holder.

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National Police Chiefs' Council

The National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) is a national coordination body for law enforcement in the United Kingdom and the representative body for senior police officers in the United Kingdom.

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NatureScot

NatureScot (NàdarAlba) is the operating name for the body formally called Scottish Natural Heritage.

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Nevada

Nevada is a landlocked state in the Western region of the United States.

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Nimonic

Nimonic is a registered trademark of Special Metals Corporation that refers to a family of nickel-based high-temperature low creep superalloys.

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North Tyneside

North Tyneside is a metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear, England.

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Peel Island, Cumbria

Peel Island (formerly known as Montague Island or the Gridiron) is one of the three islands of Coniston Water in the English Lake District, Cumbria.

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Polegate

Polegate is a town and civil parish in the Wealden District of East Sussex, England, United Kingdom.

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Polysulfide

Polysulfides are a class of chemical compounds derived from anionic chains of sulfur atoms.

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Pound (force)

The pound of force or pound-force (symbol: lbf, sometimes lbf) is a unit of force used in some systems of measurement, including English Engineering units and the foot–pound–second system.

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Powder coating

Powder coating is a type of coating that is applied as a free-flowing, dry powder.

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Power hammer

Power hammers are mechanical forging hammers that use an electrical power source or steam to raise the hammer preparatory to striking, and accelerate it onto the work being hammered.

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Press brake

A press brake is a machine used for bending sheet metal and metal plate, most commonly sheet metal.

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Rolls-Royce R

The Rolls-Royce R is a British aero engine that was designed and built specifically for air racing purposes by Rolls-Royce Limited.

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Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies.

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Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.

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Ruskin Museum

The Ruskin Museum is a small local museum in Coniston, Cumbria, northern England.

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Site of Special Scientific Interest

A site of special scientific interest (SSSI) in Great Britain, or an area of special scientific interest (ASSI) in the Isle of Man and Northern Ireland, is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom and Isle of Man.

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Sonar

Sonar (sound navigation and ranging or sonic navigation and ranging) is a technique that uses sound propagation (usually underwater, as in submarine navigation) to navigate, measure distances (ranging), communicate with or detect objects on or under the surface of the water, such as other vessels.

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Sponson

Sponsons are projections extending from the sides of land vehicles, aircraft or watercraft to provide protection, stability, storage locations, mounting points for weapons or other devices, or equipment housing.

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Stainless steel

Stainless steel, also known as inox, corrosion-resistant steel (CRES), and rustless steel, is an alloy of iron that is resistant to rusting and corrosion.

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The Argus (Brighton)

The Argus is a local newspaper based in Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England, with editions serving the city of Brighton and Hove and the other parts of both East Sussex and West Sussex.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The One Show

The One Show is a British television magazine and chat show programme.

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Tomlin order

A Tomlin order is a court order in the English civil justice system under which a court action is stayed on terms that have been agreed in advance between the parties and are included in a schedule to the order.

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Transom (nautical)

In some boats and ships, a transom is the aft transverse surface of the hull that forms the stern of a vessel.

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Turbojet

The turbojet is an airbreathing jet engine which is typically used in aircraft.

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Ullswater

Ullswater is a glacial lake in Cumbria, England and part of the Lake District National Park.

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Vertical stabilizer

A vertical stabilizer or tail fin is the static part of the vertical tail of an aircraft.

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Water speed record

The world unlimited Water Speed Record is the officially recognised fastest speed achieved by a water-borne vehicle, irrespective of propulsion method. Bluebird K7 and water speed record are water speed records.

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Weld quality assurance

Weld quality assurance is the use of technological methods and actions to test or assure the quality of welds, and secondarily to confirm the presence, location and coverage of welds.

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Western Australia

Western Australia (WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western third of the land area of the Australian continent.

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3D scanning

3D scanning is the process of analyzing a real-world object or environment to collect three dimensional data of its shape and possibly its appearance (e.g. color).

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See also

Bluebird record-breaking vehicles

Jet-powered hydroplanes

Maritime incidents in 1955

Maritime incidents in 1967

Water speed records

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebird_K7

Also known as Coniston Bluebird, Rebuilding Bluebird K7.

, Nevada, Nimonic, North Tyneside, Peel Island, Cumbria, Polegate, Polysulfide, Pound (force), Powder coating, Power hammer, Press brake, Rolls-Royce R, Royal Air Force, Royal Navy, Ruskin Museum, Site of Special Scientific Interest, Sonar, Sponson, Stainless steel, The Argus (Brighton), The Guardian, The One Show, Tomlin order, Transom (nautical), Turbojet, Ullswater, Vertical stabilizer, Water speed record, Weld quality assurance, Western Australia, 3D scanning.