Vanity Fair UK – September 2019

(Kiana) #1
Nearly 53 years after her fatal crash on
Coniston, Donald Campbell’s
resurrected Bluebird K7 is still rattling
teacups. As Bill Smith, her restorer,
plays tug-of-war with her new owners,
the battle for control of the famous
hydroplane fires up

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By
RORY ROSS
Photographs by
ADAM FUSSELL

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