hydroplane

Ryan Burks helped his son Ryder, 11, in and out of the hydroplane they built through the Hydroplane and Raceboat Museum’s J-Hydro program.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 27, 2024

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

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

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

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2023

Outside of the HomeStreet Bank Cup competition, you can spot vintage hydroplanes on the water and catch 9- to 16-year-olds racing at up to 40 mph in the junior hydroplane races.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 3, 2023

If you’re fascinated with hydroplanes, consider getting a $15 Pit Pass, letting you watch boaters get in and out of their hydroplanes close up and snag autographs.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 3, 2023

He was not looking at hydroplanes over the fence of the aerodrome.

From Riviera Towns by Herbert Adams Gibbons

“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

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

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

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

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