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Water Speed Records: Donald Campbell, Malcolm Campbell, Napier & Son, Water Speed Record, Bluebird K7, Kaye Don, Henry Segrave, Coniston Water

Water Speed Records: Donald Campbell, Malcolm Campbell, Napier & Son, Water Speed Record, Bluebird K7, Kaye Don, Henry Segrave, Coniston Water


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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Donald Campbell, Malcolm Campbell, Napier & Son, Water speed record, Bluebird K7, Kaye Don, Henry Segrave, Coniston Water, Turbinia, Garfield Wood, Miss England II, John Cobb, Spirit of Australia, Blue Bird K3, Blue Bird K4, Underwater speed record, Ken Warby, List of Bluebird record-breaking vehicles, Leo Villa, Crusader, Lloyd's unlimited rating. Excerpt: The World Unlimited water speed record is the officially recognised fastest speed achieved by a water-borne vehicle. The current record of 511 km/h (317 mph) was achieved in 1978. With an approximate fatality rate of 85% since 1940, the record is one of the sporting world's most hazardous competitions. William Cogswell's steam yacht Feiseen, which set a new world speed record on August 25, 1893 of 50.8 km/h (32 mph).Until 1911, the world water speed records were held by steam-powered, propeller-driven vehicles, including Nathanael Herreshoff's Stiletto (1885, 26.2 mph), William B. Cogswell's Feiseen (1893, 31.6 mph), Charles Algernon Parsons' Turbinia (1897, 39.1 mph), and Charles R. Flint's Arrow (1903, 45.06 mph). In 1911, a 40-foot stepped planing hull, Dixie IV, designed by Clinton Crane, became the first gasoline powered vessel to break the water speed record. Beginning in 1908, Alexander Graham Bell and engineer Frederick W. "Casey" Baldwin began experimenting with powered watercraft. In 1919, with Baldwin piloting their HD-4 hydrofoil, a new world water speed record of 70.86 mph (114.04 km/h) was set on Bras d'Or Lake in Nova Scotia. During the 1920s powerboat racing was dominated by American businessman and racer Gar Wood, whose Miss America boats were capable of speeds approaching 160 kilometers per hour (100 mph). Increased public interest generated by the speeds achieved by Wood and others led to an official speed record being ratified in 1928. The fir...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781156658468
  • Publisher: Books LLC, Wiki Series
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC, Wiki Series
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 28
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 68 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1156658462
  • Publisher Date: 26 Jul 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Donald Campbell, Malcolm Campbell, Napier & Son, Water Speed Record, Bluebird K7, Kaye Don, Henry Segrave, Coniston Water
  • Width: 189 mm


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