Who raised the land speed record to over 394mph driving the Railton Special in 1947, he died on Loch Ness in 1952 in an attempt to break the water speed record?
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 in place, the peak speed of 314 mph being recorded by the BBC's own on-board data management equipment. British land speed record The British land speed record is the fastest land speed achieved by a vehicle in the United Kingdom, as opposed to one on water or in the air. It is standardised as the speed over a course of fixed length, averaged over two runs in opposite directions. On 25 September 1924, Malcolm Campbell driving the 350 hp Sunbeam Blue Bird set records for the Flying Mile (146.16 m.p.h.) and Flying Kilometre (146.15 m.p.h.) at Pendine Sands, in Wales.