biography
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Campbell, Donald (Malcolm)
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| lived:
| (1921–67)
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| biography:
| Land and water speed-record contestant, born in Horley, Surrey, SE England, UK, the son of Sir Malcolm Campbell. An engineer by training, he sought to emulate his father's achievements. He set new world speed records several times on both land and water, culminating in 1964 with a water-speed record of 276·33 mph on L Dumbleyung in Australia, and a land-speed record of 403·1 mph at L Eyre salt flats in Australia. In an attempt to become the first man to break 300 mph on water, he was killed when his Bluebird turbo-jet hydroplane crashed on Coniston Water in England (salvaged in 2001). His daughter, Gina Campbell (1948– ) broke the women's water speed record in 1984. |
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