Sponsored by Upex, the used printing equipment show which runs alongside Ipex, Quicksilver has a predicted speed of 350mph.
Powered by a 25,000 horsepower Rolls-Royce Spey jet engine claimed to be more powerful than a grid full of Formula 1 cars at full throttle the boat's design owes much to Donald Campbell's legendary Bluebird.
Quicksilver driver Nigel Macknight, who will also be present at Ipex, begins trialling his new ride later this year before his own record attempt on Coniston Water, where Campbell died in 1967.
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