Who set a world land speed record of over 400 miles per hour at Bonneville, Utah, USA, and was killed attempting a new water speed record on Loch Ness in September 1952?
Water speed record K4" was by now 12 years old, with a 20-year-old engine, and Campbell struggled to reach the speeds of the Seattle-built boat. In late 1951, she was written-off when it suffered a structural failure at on Coniston Water. At this time, yet another land speed driver entered the fray. Englishman John Cobb, was hoping to reach in his jet-powered "Crusader". A radical design, the "Crusader" reversed the ‘three-pointer’ design, placing the sponsons at the rear of the hull. On 29 September 1952 Cobb tried to beat the world record on Loch Ness but, while travelling at an estimated , "Crusader"'s
British land speed record Mile (150.76 m.p.h.) and Flying Kilometre (150.86 m.p.h.). Henry Segrave on 16 March 1926 set the land speed record in his 4-litre Sunbeam Tiger " 'Ladybird' " on the sands at Southport, England at 152.3 m.p.h. "The mean time for the flying kilometre was 14.6876 seconds equal to 245.11 kilometres per hour, or 152.308 miles per hour." The car suffered supercharger failure during the record run and did not break the mile record. On 27 April 1926, at Pendine Sands J. G. Parry-Thomas in the Higham-Thomas Special "Babs" set the Flying Mile record at 168.07 m.p.h. and the Flying Kilometre