Donald Campbell was born at Canbury House, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, the son of Malcolm, later Sir Malcolm Campbell, holder of 13 world speed records in the 1920s and 1930s in the Bluebirdcars

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Campbell began his speed record attempts in the summer of 1949, using his father's old boat, Blue Bird K4, which he renamed Bluebird K4. His initial attempts that summer were

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It was after the Lake Mead water speed record success in 1955 that the seeds of Campbell's ambition to hold the land speed recordas well were planted. The following year, the serious planning was under way — to build a car to break the land speed record, which then stood

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Bluebird Mach 1.1
Campbell decided a massive jump in speed was called for following his successful 1964 land speed record attempt in Bluebird CN7.

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The wreckage of Campbell's craft was recovered by the Bluebird Project between October 2000, when the first sections were raised, and May 2001,

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Between them, Campbell and his father had set 11 speed records on water and 10 on land.
The story of Campbell's

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Campbell now planned to go after the water speed record one more time with Bluebird K7 — to do what he had aimed for so many years ago, during

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