Who was killed on 4 January 1967 when his jet propelled boat, Bluebird K7, somersaulted and disintegrated on Coniston Water?
Bluebird K7 Bluebird K7 Bluebird K7 is a jet engined hydroplane with which Britain's Donald Campbell set seven world water speed records during the later half of the 1950s and the 1960s. "K7" was the first successful jet-powered hydroplane, and was considered revolutionary when launched in January 1955. Campbell and "K7" were responsible for adding almost to the water speed record, taking it from existing mark of to just over . Donald Campbell was killed in an accident with a much modified "K7", on 4 January 1967, whilst making a bid for his eighth water speed record, with his aim to raise
Coniston, Cumbria the 1950s. He died attempting to break the world water speed record for the eighth time in 1967, when his jet boat, "Bluebird K7", crashed at , having already set the record for the seventh time at Dumbleyung Lake, Western Australia in 1964. His body and boat ("Bluebird K7") were discovered and recovered by divers in 2001 and he was buried in the new graveyard in Coniston in September 2001. A new wing has been built at the Ruskin Museum to accommodate the fully restored Bluebird K7 boat. It opened in late 2009 with the K7 due to arrive in