Glad the video was appreciated- I made it!

I too believe Campbell just would have kept going until something happened to him- for all his successes he was dogged with poor luck, and he’d already survived one horriffic crash in his land speed car. He only wanted to get the 300mph water record to drum up interest for his proposed Mach 1 rocket car, in a world that was rapidly moving on, about to go to the moon, and just not interested in speed records anymore.

Yup, Ken Warby (whom I had the pleasure of meeting last October) has held the record at 317mph for a long time now- he’s actually built another boat, but was waiting for some of the other challengers to give it a go first. Trouble is, they’ve all proven to be full of talk and not deeds, and he actually announced that he was retiring from the world water speed record last year.

The Quicksilver thing is just a joke- they guy is just trading on it, hosting dinners with a few has-been rent-a-clebs a couple of times a year and getting absolutely nowhere with his proposed ‘craft’. Bluebird will get wet again before Quicksinker ever does!

that quicksilver thing is a bit worrying because i believe the project owns a fairly unique Blackburn Buccaneer, that was used for the foxhunter radar trials and fitted with a Tornado nose, i believe which is at bournemouth airport or something, i hope if it does go all balls up this aircraft will be cared for in a proper manner, as she’s a live one i believe

She looks fantastic, a tribute to the man who paid the ultimate sacrifice for his dream. what amazes me is that the current water speed record being 317.59 mph, that no one this day and age has gone faster (the current record having been set on the 8th October 1978), i mean there are road cars now progressing towards 300mph (the insane bugatti veyron GT) i had heard that campbell was nearing 330mph when she took off (328mph?) news from the quicksilver project has been a bit quiet recently. anyway what a fantastic job. keep it up 🙂

it looks like a modified version of the Tupolev ANT-20, but could it be something from, the computer generated sky captain and the world of tomorrow film (never seen it though)

bare with me on this one, But i was under the impression that the project is waiting for its sabre engine, im sure this has been mentioned before (the colossal cost involved) though im not entirely sure 🙂

ill be there if transportation allows, will bex be there?

thats was my inital thought too though according to wikipedia, the Afghan Air Force acquired 28 aircraft in 1938, the final example retiring in 1957. so they must be the hawker variety 🙂

that looks a lot like a B-24 whatever it is has a twin rudder tail (the reason for guessing B-24)

I thoroughly like the chap, at least he raises awareness of Aviation, and to people lost in combat. Also major contributer to a servicemens charity.
Funny where you see his name come up, sometimes on the most unlikely of forums!

I also love the way that top gear are decidedly PRO forces, The tank versus the Range rover, the Apace versus the exige and my personal favorite the EF typhoon Versus teh Bugatti Veyron 😀 getting back to the thread, is 173 home now?