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| has gloss | eng: Bluebird K7 is a boat built for Donald Campbell to break the World Water Speed Record. Bluebird was a special kind of boat, called a hydroplane, that skims over the top of the water instead of pushing through it like a normal boat. Bluebird was powered by a jet engine. It set new world water speed records seven times; the fastest was 276 mph (445 km/h). Bluebird was destroyed when Campbell tried to set an eighth record by going faster than 300 mph (480 km/h) on Coniston Water in 1967. |
| has gloss | eng: Bluebird K7 is a hydroplane with which Donald Campbell set seven water speed records. Campbell lost his life in K7 on January 4, 1967 whilst undertaking an attempt to raise the speed record to over on Coniston Water. |
| lexicalization | eng: Bluebird K7 |
| instance of | c/Jet-powered hydroplanes |
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| media:img | Aa Bluebird replica Tattonflowershow2009.jpg |
| media:img | Bluebird K7 Lloyds badge.svg |
| media:img | Bluebird K7 in 1967.jpg |
| media:img | Replica of the Campbell Bluebird K7.jpg |
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