by David Aldred | Jun 29, 2021
This June update is rather saddened somewhat as we learnt that Donald Campbell’s widow, actress and singer Tonia Bern-Campbell had passed away this month and our sincere condolences go out to all of her family and friends at this sad time. Tonia and Donald...
by David Aldred | May 25, 2021
Welcome to the May diary update and this month it was great to see our good friend Dave Warby back at Blowering Dam in Australia with his team undertaking a weekend of further testing of his jet hydroplane Spirit of Australia II. The winds there were fortunately kind...
by David Aldred | Apr 27, 2021
This month we are proud to welcome a new product sponsor to the venture of building our jet hydroplane Longbow, the renowned Norwegian multinational paint and performance coating manufacturer Jotun, who have a presence in more than 100 countries around the world,...
by David Aldred | Mar 30, 2021
Welcome to my little March diary update for the venture and what a mixed bag of things this month has been. Kicking things off was the apprentices at our sponsor WEC Group in Darwen, who so skilfully fabricated the trailer for our jet hydroplane Longbow having to pull...
by David Aldred | Feb 26, 2021
We all know February is the shortest month of the year but for some reason it doesn’t seem two minutes since I wrote the last update. However during that time my wife and some friends of ours have now had their first jab as part of the vaccine rollout, as the...
