Model, scale 1:6, of the motor-boat 'Bluebird K7', 1954. Promotional, trade, whole model of 'Bluebird K7', World Water Speed Record contender, 1955. Scale 1:6 The model shows the tail fin added in ...

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 air hangs still and the surroundings fall silent as thousands gather along the shoreline, before the eerie Cumbrian calm is shattered by an Orpheus jet engine roaring into life for the first time ...

Journalist Christopher Sharp drove over six hours to see Bluebird K7, the UK's fastest and most famous jet boat ...

The air is still and surroundings quiet as thousands watch by the shore before the eerie Cumbrian stillness is broken by an Orpheus jet engine for the first time in 21,677 days. On that day, January ...