hydroplane

The Warriors on the Water program promotes hydroplane racing for veteran amputees using modified racing vessels.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 26, 2024

The nation’s only public museum dedicated solely to unlimited hydroplane racing, the nonprofit reaches beyond pure recreation to benefit children and wounded veterans, as well.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 26, 2024

Mr Smith eventually walked away and handed the hydroplane to the Ruskin Museum.

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

We ascend the red-carpeted stairs, passing silver sailing trophies and the oil portrait of the hydroplane racer Gar Wood.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

As I took off my racing gear and hydrated, I spotted some modern hydroplanes running practice laps in the distance, preparing for the races later that day.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 5, 2023

They both race 2.5-liter modified hydroplanes, and there will be races where they compete against each other.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2023

Stocklin didn’t want to kick the bucket without fulfilling his dream of racing hydroplanes.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2023

The Tri-Cities hosted it in 2015 before it returned to Detroit for three more years until the unlimited hydroplanes stopped racing on the Detroit River.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 2, 2023

See our conquest of the air—dirigibles, aeroplanes, hydroplanes and the like.

From Quit Your Worrying! by James, George Wharton

Near the 101 Freeway in Hidden Hills, a number of vehicles hydroplaned as Round Meadow Road flooded near Mureau Road.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2025

“There was two vehicles traveling toward each other. One hydroplaned on water and it was occupied by four people,” Sgt.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 2023

Solomon Mensah’s Hyundai Sonata hydroplaned as he slammed on the brakes to avoid a bus that had suddenly stopped ahead of him.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 23, 2023

A 25-year-old man died after his vehicle hydroplaned into another vehicle.

From New York Times ● Oct. 2, 2022

The young man told Vernon that his car had hydroplaned.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

The agency also says Tesla made safety updates after the recall fix was sent out, including an attempt to reduce crashes caused by hydroplaning and to reduce collisions in high speed turn lanes.

From Seattle Times ● May 7, 2024

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

The trickiest section to drive was the long, high-speed straight as the drivers risked hydroplaning or not being able to see through the spray kicked up by the cars around them.

From Washington Times ● May 23, 2021

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