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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Eleanor Barlow

Record-breaking hydroplane Bluebird K7 returns to Coniston Water

The restored Bluebird K7 has once more taken to the water in the Lake District (Owen Humphreys/PA) - (PA Wire)

Record-breaking hydroplane Bluebird K7 has returned to Coniston Water for the first time since Donald Campbell died as he attempted to set a new water speed record.

Campbell was killed when the vessel flipped into the air and disintegrated on January 4 1967, when he was trying to beat his own world water speed record of 276.33mph.

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