hydroplane
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Dave Villwock has found a new seat in an unlimited hydroplane.
From Seattle Times ● May 29, 2024
Mr Smith eventually walked away and handed the hydroplane to the Ruskin Museum.
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2024
The hydroplane was lifted from the lake in 2001 and restored by Tyneside engineer Bill Smith.
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2024
His rise in the sport came at a difficult time in hydroplane racing.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 31, 2023
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
Two- and four-cylinder hydroplanes, averaging 8 feet in length and weighing 400 pounds including the driver and engine, sped along the river reaching speeds approaching 60 mph.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 27, 2024
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
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
Navy Blue Angels and more, and the water where hydroplanes will race in the HomeStreet Bank Cup.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 27, 2023
The growth of the aeroplane industry has developed as many makes of machines as there are makes of automobiles, but in a general way aeroplanes are divided into four classes—monoplanes, biplanes, triplanes and hydroplanes.
From Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights by Miller, Kelly
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
The victim was driving east when “she encountered a patch of standing water and hydroplaned, losing control of the vehicle, before colliding into a utility pole.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2023
A 25-year-old man died after his vehicle hydroplaned into another vehicle.
From New York Times ● Oct. 2, 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
Four days before the hearing, they’d received the results from a study done by a forensic sciences firm in Salt Lake City that had asked the question: Was it likely that Reggie had hydroplaned?
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
Proper inflation and tread can reduce the risk of hydroplaning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025
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
“We have already had several collisions this morning for vehicles hydroplaning, numerous trees falling, and several roadways that are experiencing flooding,” tweeted the highway patrol’s office in Oroville.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 24, 2021
Authorities have determined a vehicle hydroplaning on the rain-slick highway caused the fatal accident.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 7, 2019
The “dynamics of the vehicles involved in the accident strongly indicate that the vehicles had much higher levels of traction than would be available in a hydroplaning situation.”
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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