The Bluebird Project

Joking apart - you can talk to yourself all you like Ted... it takes some proper planning, preparation and “right stuff” to do what you and Stew did, and I expect a fair amount of wear to the seat of your pants. Hats off to you both! Hi Stuart, Was great to have you along for a day and to see the b...

Thanks for the posts Ted, interesting reading on the issues of not a large supply of air and the issues that led to decisions being made in 1967. Yeph, the joys of controlling RPM vs Jet Pipe Temp with a hydro mechanical control system. Got the joys of seeing that on 2 Adour 104s hopefully coming up...

Enjoyed watching that.

Mike, I assume the LP indication is a suction based one. You are using original pipe dimensions that caused DMC and LV all the same problems 52 years ago?

Interesting discussion after my last post Gentlemen and i admit I have never seen the full transcipts of any of the trial runs bar on "Across the lake " and written in "the Record Breakers". I am an ex RAF Airframe guy by starting trade, tin bashing at first, did Mechanical ONC a...

Centre of Pressure getting too far forward of Centre of Gravity is not usually a good thing for Aircraft or Hydroplanes or Land Speed Record Cars. Actually it is pretty bad if you cannot control it by other means.

Power boat and pilot experiance a big advantage but personally i think the main attributes are intelligence, level headedness and courage! Those attributes with pilot and power boat experiance then thats the man or men for the job so ted and stu are the right ones. Ian lazenby The most important is...

Power boat and pilot experiance a big advantage but personally i think the main attributes are intelligence, level headedness and courage! Those attributes with pilot and power boat experiance then thats the man or men for the job so ted and stu are the right ones. Ian lazenby The most important is...

In my humble opinion, I cannot see what the problem is with people on Bill's choice of K7 Drivers. Ted had a skill set that was suitable for being lead driver. Stew is a highly experinced Fast Jet driver, holding the skill set that is excellent for development work and of course operates gas turbine...

Max speed recorded was a totally effortless 157mph but there just isn't enough loch. The boat needs to be quite high on her wedges to keep her belly from slapping down and that means too much speed. We have learned a great deal so we've made the call that there's to be no more high speed runs. Ted ...