1921-1967. British car and speedboat
enthusiast, son of Malcolm Campbell, who
simultaneously held the land-speed and
water-speed records. In 1964 he set the world
water-speed record of 444.57 kph/276.3 mph on
Lake Dumbleyung, Australia, with the
turbo-jet hydroplane Bluebird, and achieved
the land-speed record of 648.7 kph/403.1 mph
at Lake Eyre salt flats, Australia. He was
killed in an attempt to raise his water-speed
record on Coniston Water, England. He was
invalided out of the RAF in World War II and
took up the interests of his father, Malcolm
Campbell.