hydroplane
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The hydroplane was lifted from the lake in 2001 and restored by Tyneside engineer Bill Smith.
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2024
She describes being surprised in March the following year when she was asked by the museum's trustees to mediate with Mr Smith, who harboured ambitions to run the hydroplane across the globe.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2024
Having watched another motorist hydroplane on the main thoroughfare’s wet surface, the couple had detoured off Fourth Plain Boulevard, just to be extra cautious.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 23, 2024
Hampton Cup Regatta organizers canceled that event in Virginia saying the forecast wasn’t optimal for hydroplane racing or Friday evening’s concert.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2023
It wouldn’t hydroplane unless it was going one hundred miles an hour.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
A handful of vintage hydroplanes sat at the boat dock Friday morning when I arrived for my ride.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 5, 2023
Gunnar’s boat racing career started as so many do, building J-stock outboard hydroplanes at the museum with his grandfather and his sister.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2023
These on-the-water spectators can see the hydroplanes racing right in front of them and air shows behind them, “so you’re really in the middle of the action,” Corning said.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 3, 2023
Navy Blue Angels and more, and the water where hydroplanes will race in the HomeStreet Bank Cup.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 27, 2023
Two hydroplanes went up from our fleet and scouted round us for several miles for over an hour.
From The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde" by George Davidson
Marmsha Nash, a 19-year-old woman from Fairfield, was killed when her car hydroplaned and hit a utility pole, according to Solano County officials.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2023
The Fairfield Police Department said in a statement that the woman apparently hit a patch of standing water and hydroplaned, crashing into a nearby utility pole.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 4, 2023
The three were traveling southbound on Interstate 35 in Tonkawa, Okla., near the Kansas border, when their Volkswagen Tiguan hydroplaned and became disabled, blocking the outside lane, according to the department of public safety.
From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2022
The next batter, Andrew Vaughan, hit a groundball that hydroplaned to third baseman Eugenio Suarez, who misplayed it.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 13, 2022
The company investigator, Scott Kimbrough, concluded that, no, Reggie had not hydroplaned.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
In Garfield County, Okla., severe weather destroyed some barns, felled trees and sent cars hydroplaning into ditches, but no one was injured, said Mike Honigsberg, the emergency management director for the county.
From New York Times ● May 6, 2024
A second storm-related death occurred when a teen driver’s car crashed after hydroplaning in the Solano County city of Fairfield, the Fairfield Police Department said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2023
Even after the ice is gone, drivers often crash while hydroplaning.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 23, 2022
Cars were hydroplaning all over the course, crashing into the wall and struggling to get the windshield wipers working.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 10, 2020
As to substance, she truly believed that the accident had been caused by the weather, hydroplaning.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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