Sentence examples for hydroplane from inspiring English sources

The Gold Cup is one of a series of unlimited hydroplane races sponsored annually by the American Power Boat Association and culminating with the award of a national championship.

At age 10, Hanauer placed fifth nationally in the Junior Stock hydroplane class for 9- to 12-year-olds.

Hanauer taught emotionally disturbed children until he became a full-time powerboat racer in 1978, and he won his first hydroplane race in Ogden, Utah, in 1979.

The annual Seafair, held in Seattle each July, features parades, hydroplane races, and air shows.

The modified airframe of the June Bug, fitted with another Curtiss engine, mounted on floats, and renamed the Loon, became the first hydroplane tested in the United States.

American powerboat racer who dominated hydroplane racing in the 1980s and '90s.

In 1904 the American Power Boat Association (founded 1903) instituted the Gold Cup, which later became one of a series of races (for hydroplanes from 1911) leading to a national championship.

Each of Campbell's racing cars and hydroplanes was named Bluebird, for the play L'Oiseau bleu ("The Bluebird") by the Belgian dramatist Maurice Maeterlinck.

The following year he won his seventh national championship for hydroplanes and captured his ninth victory in the Gold Cup, breaking Muncey's record of eight.

As children, Hanauer and his friends would tow wooden planks behind their bicycles and pretend they were driving hydroplanes.

He started racing hydroplanes, the biggest racing boats, in 1976, the year of his graduation from Washington State University.