Crashing the Water Barrier
Overview
The story of Donald Campbell, son of the late Sir Malcolm Campbell, British champion auto-racer, and his efforts to survive driving a jet-powered boat at record speeds on Lake Meade, Nevada. After a number of failures at breaking the water-speed record of 216 mph, Campbell and his boat, the 'Bluebird', set a new record by, at times, breaking 250 mph.
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CinemaSerf
@Geronimo1967July 28, 2025
This has a disappointingly superficial, newsreel, look to it as it takes us to Lake Mead in Nevada. That’s where Donald Campbell has come from the UK to try and emulate his father’s land-speed record, only on water this time, on a lake hopefully devoid of the logs he encountered at home. The first f…
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