It had been hoped Bluebird would reach sufficient speed to allow it to “plane” – the point at which hydrodynamics enable the machine to skim across the surface of the lake.<\/p>\n
“Everybody is frustrated that we didn’t get long planing runs,” Carroll said on the slipway as Bluebird was towed back into the engineering tent for the final time.<\/p>\n
“If it was that easy, everybody would be doing it.”<\/p>\n
He said the team thought it had “cracked it” on Friday, but a pipe coming off on Sunday was time-consuming to fix “and then you lose the weather window”.<\/p>\n
Campbell spent between November 1966 and January 1967 in Coniston trying to break the water speed record.<\/p>\n
“As we said during the week, you feel how Donald must’ve with two months of it,” Carroll said.<\/p>\n
“You empathise with what he must’ve gone through with everybody doubting his conviction.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It had been hoped Bluebird would reach sufficient speed to allow it to “plane” – the point at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-589609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}