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When you look back at it and the team he had, led by Leo Villa and the appropriate budget, you realise they were making it up as they went along - Certainly compared to today's big budget and computer science related input etc
Saw a comment that if the front of the boat was lifting to touch they just put in more sand bags at the front
It's great that Bluebird has been restored, it's a magic piece of history.
Leo's son used to play bass guitar - came into the Derby shop a few times - vaguely recall he lived near the area - this was sometime in the 80's
This year we visited pendine sands where Malcolm Campbell set some of his early land speed records.
How the hell have they got that going after so many years underwater? Baffling. But wonderful.