hydroplane

When Villwock, 70, drives the boat, he will become the oldest driver in unlimited hydroplane history.

From Seattle Times ● May 29, 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

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

"And don't forget we're going up in the hydroplane tomorrow morning at nine o'clock."

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

H1 Unlimited called the new boat “one of the most technologically advanced Unlimited hydroplanes ever constructed” in a news release Wednesday, saying it is a “composite craft, utilizing carbon fiber and other advanced materials.”

From Seattle Times ● May 29, 2024

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

A handful of vintage hydroplanes sat at the boat dock Friday morning when I arrived for my ride.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 5, 2023

I would get some scraps of wood and build my own hydroplanes and then race them up and down the streets as those Seafair Races gave me an excuse to be a tomboy.

From Seattle Times ● May 7, 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

What they’ll remember instead is how North America’s best two women’s teams hydroplaned their way through a game that never should have been played.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2024

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 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

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

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

The quad’s balloon tires cut through the water easily, but he’d have to watch out for hydroplaning, which was just as dangerous as driving on ice.

From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith