Courage, patience, and determination

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After coming across the British Pathe newsreel on motor skiing recently, we dug around some more and found this newsreel on Donald Campbell setting the land-speed record in 1964 at Lake Eyre, piloting the Bluebird to 403.10 MPH. Note how massive those wheels are!

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