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Hydroplane meaning
To skim the surface of a body of water while moving at high speed. | For a car or similar vehicle to slide along the road on a thin film of water between the road and the tyres. This occurs when a car has some speed and comes to somewhere with more water on the road than the weight of the car and the grooves in the tyre tread pattern (if any) can push away. The result is almost no traction at all for steering or braking.
Example sentences (13)
In early 1953, Campbell began development of his own advanced all-metal jet-powered Bluebird K7 hydroplane to challenge the record, by now held by the American prop rider hydroplane Slo-Mo-Shun IV.
All of sudden, his steering went light as Cole began to hydroplane and slide from side to side over the four lanes.
He explained that he picked up a girl and she got busy while he was driving, managed to hydroplane and hit a telephone pole.
Keep calm, don’t oversteer or stomp on the brakes if you start to hydroplane or skid when your tires lose traction with the wet road.
But when traveling with a high-speed naval taskforce, the arsenal ship will sacrifice stealth to use its flat hull bottom to hydroplane at high speeds, cutting across the waves like a speedboat or amphibious armored vehicle.
Deputy Rice is remembered at Boatnik each year through the ‘Tom Rice Memorial White Water Hydroplane Race’ on Memorial day afternoon.
Edmonds based Unlimited Racing Group owners Shannon Raney and her husband Scott displayed their award-winning U-11 hydroplane at the Edmonds Yacht Club Friday evening during a membership dinner.
Enzo sent his Chief Engineer Stefano Meazza and some of the Scuderia Ferrari crew members to help make the hydroplane boat faster.
J & D’s Racing’s U-11 unlimited hydroplane participates nationally and is manned by driver Jamie Nilsen.
This was paired with a three-point hydroplane constructed from hardwood with a mahogany veneer finish.
The railroad, bank, library and a hydroplane are some of the many things that will be depicted in the mural on the smokestack.
Bell considered the invention of the hydroplane as a very significant achievement.
The Budweiser brand is promoted in motorsports, from Bernie Little 's Miss Budweiser hydroplane boat to sponsorship of the Budweiser King Top Fuel Dragster driven by Brandon Bernstein.