hydroplane
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The Warriors on the Water program promotes hydroplane racing for veteran amputees using modified racing vessels.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 26, 2024
The hydroplane was lifted from the lake in 2001 and restored by Tyneside engineer Bill Smith.
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2024
Mr Smith eventually walked away and handed the hydroplane to the Ruskin Museum.
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 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
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
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
His son, Brent Hall Jr., 12, is competing in the J-stock hydroplanes.
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
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
One kept his eye on a bubble and turned his wheel to control the hydroplanes to keep the craft level, and the other man's eyes also watched a bubble in a level.
From Some Naval Yarns by Mordaunt Hall
A flood watch was in effect when the game kicked off on a sodden field drenched with so much standing water, players hydroplaned after well-struck passes that stopped suddenly in the puddles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2024
“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
When he got into the wreck, he thought he 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
The speaker is also rated for IP55 dust and water resistance, so it can handle hydroplaning drifts.
From The Verge ● Apr. 14, 2022
“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
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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