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Bluebird Restoration
« on: 01 October 2012, 16:47:20 »

Talk of XH558's sortie this weekend, and the recent post on the Bloodhound ground speed record attempt reminded me of another project to preserve the relics of what we used to be able to achieve.

http://www.bluebirdproject.com/

An interesting project, and one to watch.
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Re: Bluebird Restoration
« Reply #1 on: 01 October 2012, 19:43:11 »

The Donald Campbell Bluebird is that?
Thought it smashed to bits?
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Re: Bluebird Restoration
« Reply #2 on: 01 October 2012, 19:58:47 »

I believe they pulled it off the bottom and are rebuilding it  :y
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Re: Bluebird Restoration
« Reply #3 on: 01 October 2012, 20:05:49 »

This should hopefully be the new water speed record holder soon  :y

http://quicksilver-wsr.com/
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Re: Bluebird Restoration
« Reply #4 on: 01 October 2012, 21:28:54 »

Good luck to them on both of these projects. Britain has a long and very successful history of achieving land and water speed records.  :y :y :y :y
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Re: Bluebird Restoration
« Reply #5 on: 01 October 2012, 21:36:41 »

A different breed these speed seekers. I met Richard noble at a function about 15 years ago, spent about 10'minutes talking to him, incredible character and either very brave or completely bonkers with no fear
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Re: Bluebird Restoration
« Reply #6 on: 01 October 2012, 22:02:16 »

   Remember watching crash on news, hearing Campbell say "I'm gone" as  Bluebird became airborne, the country seemed to be in shock, I was.  Anything that Campbell did at the time was headline news.     Considering the number of cameras they had trained on Bluebird at the time, you would have thought they would have found him, took decades to find him, they never gave up. 

   
         
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Re: Bluebird Restoration
« Reply #7 on: 02 October 2012, 10:32:13 »

I spent some time last night reading about the rebuild,very interesting and some superb work gone into refurbing the oily bits :y
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Re: Bluebird Restoration
« Reply #8 on: 02 October 2012, 12:02:01 »

a great project indeed.  :y
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Re: Bluebird Restoration
« Reply #9 on: 02 October 2012, 12:39:54 »

 :y :y exelant project im all behind it  :y :y
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