Back in August, a team of 14 British engineers led by a man named Bill Smith announced that the long-lost Bluebird, a jet engined hydroplane, is ready to float again, after half of century of lying ...

The famed jet boat Bluebird returned to the water Saturday for the first time since a 1967 crash that killed pilot Donald Campbell during a world speed-record attempt. Watched by well-wishers ...

The Bluebird K7, the world's first successful jet-engined hydroplane and a multiple-record holder for speed on water, is back at home in Coniston, Cumbria, in the UK. Its road back home was long, ...

The restored Bluebird K7, which crashed killing pilot Donald Campbell in 1967, takes to the water for the first time in more than 50 years off the Isle of Bute on the west coast of Scotland, Saturday ...

The famous hydroplane was recovered from Coniston waters in 2001 and returned to Ruskin Museum in 2024. Credit: ITV Border. A teenager who has made his own model of the iconic Bluebird hydroplane says ...

09:57, Fri, Mar 28, 2025 Updated: 09:57, Fri, Mar 28, 2025 Britain's most iconic record-breaker has a new jet engine to rocket her into history … across the same lake where she tragically crashed and ...

The late Donald Campbell's daughter is hoping to rebuild his Bluebird craft and race it on the lake where he was killed, it has emerged. Gina Campbell, who has twice broken women's water-speed records ...

Britain's most iconic record-breaker has a new jet engine to rocket her into history ... across the same lake where she tragically crashed and sank 58 years ago. Donald Campbell CBE died aged 45 on ...

LONDON (AP) — The famed jet boat Bluebird returned to the water Saturday for the first time since a 1967 crash that killed pilot Donald Campbell during a world speed-record attempt. Watched by ...