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    The Napier-Campbell Blue Bird was a land speed record car driven by Malcolm Campbell. Its designer was C. Amherst Villiers and Campbell's regular mechanic...
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    The Campbell-Napier-Railton Blue Bird was a land speed record car driven by Malcolm Campbell. After Henry Segrave's Golden Arrow, clearly a more powerful...
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    1928 Blue Bird III; Napier-Campbell Blue Bird; rebuilt with Napier Lion VIIA engine (ca 900hp) 1931 Blue Bird IV; Campbell-Napier-Railton Blue Bird 1933...
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    The Campbell-Railton Blue Bird was Sir Malcolm Campbell's final land speed record car. His previous Campbell-Napier-Railton Blue Bird of 1931 was rebuilt...
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    447 km/h) and the Flying Mile in 174.224 mph (280.386 km/h), in the Napier-Campbell Blue Bird. He set his final land speed record at the Bonneville Salt Flats...
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    receiving the sobriquet the "Fastest Girl on Earth". She drove a six-cylinder Napier motorcar, a 75 kW (100 hp) development of the K5, in a speed trial in Blackpool...
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    was used by Sir Malcolm Campbell, who unsuccessfully attempted to break the land speed record in his Napier-Campbell Blue Bird. Andy Green visited the...
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    the land speed record in Malcolm Campbell's Napier-Campbell Blue Bird of 1927 and Campbell-Napier-Railton Blue Bird of 1931 and Henry Segrave's Golden...
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    was also used in land speed record cars (such as the Napier-Railton and the Napier-Campbell Blue Bird) and racing boats (such as the Miss Britain III). During...
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    Villa, the Napier-Campbell Blue Bird was designed by Villiers to reach 200 miles per hour (320 km/h). The 1927 original version contained a Napier Lion aero-engine...
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  • of 174.883 m.p.h. and the Flying Mile in 174.224 m.p.h. on the Napier-Campbell Blue Bird. These also established British records that were to last for...
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    Vauxhall for racing driver Raymond Mays. He designed the Napier-Campbell Blue Bird which Malcolm Campbell used to break the land speed record in 1927 with an...
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    The Napier Lion is a 12-cylinder, petrol-fueled 'broad arrow' W12 configuration aircraft engine built by D. Napier & Son from 1917 until the 1930s. A number...
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  • Malcolm Campbell unsuccessfully attempted to break the world land-speed record here by travelling over 300 mph in his Napier-Campbell Blue Bird. Paragliding...
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  • (281.44 km/h) and the Flying Mile in 174.224 m.p.h. driving the Napier-Campbell Blue Bird, the last time this record will be attained on British soil. 12...
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    R17 and R19. Blue Bird K3 In late 1935, Sir Malcolm Campbell decided to challenge the water speed record. At that point he had two Napier Lions and one...
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    (282 km) per hour on the Pendine Sands in Wales. Driving the Napier-Campbell Blue Bird, Campbell averaged 174.883 mph (281.447 km/h). U.S. Senator Matthew...
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  • survives today as part of the Brooklands Museum. Blue Bird (1931) Napier-Railton (1933) Blue Bird (1933) ERA racing cars. 17 Railton-designed chassis were built...
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    responsibility for John Cobb's 1933 Napier Railton car which took the Outer Circuit record in 1933 and Sir Malcolm Campbell's Blue Bird Land Speed Record cars of...
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    Campbell returned to competition with an upgraded Blue Bird that was sleeker and lower than its predecessor. Fitted with a 1,450 hp (1,080 kW) Napier...
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  • original on 19 November 2015. Retrieved 4 December 2015. Gillison, Douglas Napier (1962). "Chapter 1: Formation of the Royal Australian Air Force" (digitised...
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  • became Thomson & Taylor and went on to build such cars as Malcolm Campbell's Blue Bird. From 1923 he lived in the "flying village" there, in a bungalow...
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    2024 (link) "Blue Crane". SANBI - Biodiversity of life. 16 March 2018. Retrieved 19 January 2024. "Blue Crane (Anthropoides paradiseus)". BirdLife species...
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  • one person. peccavi I have sinned Telegraph message and pun from Charles Napier, British general, upon completely subjugating the Indian province of Sindh...
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    Cooper's hawk (category Birds of prey of North America)
    Research, 17(3), 65–76. Campbell, R. W., Dawe, N.K. McTaggart-Cowan, I., Cooper, J.M. Kaiser, G.W. & McNall, M.C.E. (1990). The Birds of British Columbia...
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    Logarithm (redirect from Napier logarithm)
    frequently used in computer science. Logarithms were introduced by John Napier in 1614 as a means of simplifying calculations. They were rapidly adopted...
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  • 4, 2022. D'Alessandro, Anthony (December 14, 2023). "Lionsgate's 'White Bird' Flies Back To Theatrical Schedule". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved December...
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    Australian magpie (category Birds described in 1801)
    The Australian magpie (Gymnorhina tibicen) is a black and white passerine bird native to Australia and southern New Guinea, and introduced to New Zealand...
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  • to Oscar, who offers to get her a job in Los Angeles. In LA, Mr. Hodges (Napier) puts Oscar up for promotion from bank teller, and it is revealed that Oscar...
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  • The Yardbirds (redirect from Yard Birds)
    Yardbirds' split with their manager, Giorgio Gomelsky, as writer Simon Napier-Bell took over management and shared production credit with Samwell-Smith...
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