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Bother Over BlueBird
Bush Tucker Man:
The famous remains of Donald Campbells boat (K7) BlueBird may yet be returning to Coniston Water, the lake that claimed his life, as daughter, Gina, is in dispute with the National Lottery over the restoration (or not, as the case may be)
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-13455632,00.html
The Story is apparantly featured on 'Inside Out' on BBC1 @ 19:30 tonight
I haven't looked at them recently, but these sites may offer some backgroundl
http://www.acrossthelake.com/
http://www.bluebirdproject.com/
gords:
Umm, tricky one that :-k I can appreciate the argument of both sides. I'd probably fall on the side of "leave it as it is". :?
Rich_P:
Same here, gords. I personally would want it to be left as it is, infact, I find it rather interesting, looking at the wreckages of past time vehicles which have a strong part in history.
Reminds me of Babs. See here, bottom of the list on the page.
Xtremeteam:
was reading about it in the local paper just now,
would prefer it to be restored or returned BUT not put on ebay
Bush Tucker Man:
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Reminds me of Babs. See here, bottom of the list on the page.
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Without even looking at the link I know that is about Parry-Thomas's aero-engined racer that he died in (decapitated by a drive-chain) on Pendine Sands
It caught fire during the incident & the crew had to apparantly break his legs to retrieve the body
It ws buried in the sands & in the early 1990s??, it was dug up (from within the military ranges*) & restored
It featured in a Channel 4(?) series a couple of years ago called 'Speed Machines' (still occasionallyrepeated on Discovery channel
* Pendine Ranges have a fantastic rocket railway that can apparantly do 800mph+, it's used for missile air-flow testing
The Thust SSC team used it to test & record supersonic airflow over models for computer modelling
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