There's a hydroplane tied up at the dock," she exclaimed.
Ten minutes later, as the hydroplane once again left the water to soar wide and high, Jeanne sensed rather than felt that the wind was picking up.
With her own eyes Greta had seen a helpless one carried from a hydroplane to this place.
In as few words as possible he told the little they knew of the mysterious ones who came and went in a hydroplane and who uttered unearthly screams in the night.
In the second volume of this series, entitled “Dave Dashaway and His Hydroplane,” the energetic young airman won marked distinction at an aero meet by his monoplane and hydroplane work.
It is the lifting force so applied that makes it possible to raise hydroplane boats from the bottom even when having considerable negative buoyancy.
I then learned that the down pull of a hydroplane with a given degree of inclination varied according to its depth of submergence, and the deeper the submergence the less down pull.
The quartermaster and submerged-control man who controls the steering and hydroplane operating gear take their stations in the control department.
She was the forerunner of the German U type of boat, with her large flat deck, light-weight watertight superstructure and hydroplane control.
The diagrams are intended to demonstrate how it is that the Lake and other hydroplane boats can be so easily held at a predetermined depth and controlled vertically on an even keel.
The Hydroplane and Air-boat One of the most recent developments in aviation is the hydroplane, or water-plane as it is most commonly called.
A hydroplane is an aeroplane fitted with floats instead of wheels, so that it will rise from, or alight upon, the surface of the water.
It was a new type, designed for the Daily Mail Hydroplane Race round Great Britain, but at the time of the accident had a land chassis instead of floats.
Even while Jack was speaking, the hydroplane began to move slowly over the surface of the water.
Next we'll have to get our hydroplane to the water.
After remaining upon a level keel for one single instant, the hydroplane turned turtle.
A moment later the hydroplane was skimming swiftly over the water.
He opened up the engine and the hydroplane ran some distance from the position of the men below.
As the Germans approached in the air, a hydroplane ascended from each of the British ships and British aviators gave chase to the enemy.
No; but she's built like the Queen Mary" The hydroplane sped on.
Within a range that would make accurate revolver shooting possible, the hydroplane came to a halt.
Again Frank increased the speed of the hydroplane and it moved swiftly in the wake of the fourth German craft.
The hydroplane now was less than a quarter of a mile from the Queen Mary and Frank reduced its speed abruptly.
Even as Jack had lowered himself from the hydroplane and swam across the water, the Germans in the other craft had done the same thing.
As lightly as a fairy the hydroplaneskimmed over the water; then went soaring in the air.
Behind the British hydroplane the other German airships came rapidly, keeping some distance apart, however.
And in this manner they overtook the hydroplane driven by Frank and Jack.
Several sailors sprang to their feet and blazed away at the hydroplane with their rifles.
A sudden lurching of the hydroplane told Frank that the second German was coming aboard.
It was a dumfounded aviator who saw his hydroplane skim the water and a moment later sail into the air.
Two revolvers barked over the taffrail of the yacht, as the hydroplane raced onward, dragging Shirley and his prisoner at the end of the rope, through the water.
The hydroplane was close up now, and Shirley saw his prey dangling at the end of the ladder, now in the water, struggling with the rungs of the ladder, and now being drawn up.
I've got a hydroplane which I'll sell this spring to some yachtsman," said Manby.
Shirley grunted and the hydroplane sped out onto the river, in a big curve, as he directed.
But all hydroplanecraft are designed to slip over the surface of the water, and not to cleave through it.
A regular hydroplane is fitted with a series of graduated steps, and the front of the boat rises as it skims over the water.
For a hydroplane craft, as you probably know, does not go through the water as a motor-boat does.
The sheriff stepped back to the hydroplane and brought out a bunch of jangling handcuffs which he proceeded to lock on the cowering captives who offered no resistance.
It is also interesting to note what happened when Lawrence Sperry went out to sea one day last summer in his hydroplane and failed to return.
I then learned that a down pull of a hydroplane at a given degree of inclination varied according to its depth of submergence and that the deeper the submergence, the less the down pull.
As the speed increased, the boat was lifted on top of the water by her hydroplane step until she was skimming lightly over the surface.
The Commander then pressed a button which rang the alarm bells below, and the men at the hydroplane wheels and ballast cocks caused the boat to dive.
These lighters were little flat-bottomed steel barges, with hydroplane bottoms, on which the flying-boats could crawl up.
When he came out into the open air he discovered Mr. Ingoldsby and Mr. Desmond standing together looking forward along the narrow strip of deck to where a great round shape lay jammed between the hydroplane and its guard.
The mooring line of flexible wire rope had been caught as the submarine rose to the surface and was securely fixed in the hydroplane bearings, held by its own weight and the weight of the sinker.
Two went forward to the torpedo-tubes, one to each main ballast-tank kingston, one to the hydroplane wheel, another to the motor switches.
Speed boat hulls are usually of the hydroplane or sea-sled type.
However, such plants have gained great popularity in the past few years, and all of the hydroplane racing craft are propelled with such outfits.
Dave Dashaway and His Hydroplane or Daring Adventures Over the Great Lakes Showing how Dave continued his career as a birdman and had many adventures over the Great Lakes, and he likewise foiled the plans of some Canadian smugglers.
Bird Boys' Flight; or, A Hydroplane Round-up.
In May, 1919, a hydroplane belonging to the United States navy made the first trip across the ocean.
A hydroplane is an airplane having a boat-like body so that it is able to alight on or rise from the water.
There we rose about midday, but, observing a hydroplane at no great distance, we sank again for half an hour.
All the time we lay there I saw a hydroplane floating between us and the British coast.
Immediately after the hydroplane had been moored to a small pier owned by Captain Britten, the tug-boat chugged out into the Gulf of Mexico at the rate of ten knots.
Their tour over, the party settled back to their stations, and at a nod and gesture from the Captain the hydroplane men tilted the bow slightly down again for further descent.
The Captain was watching the hydroplane helm indicators beside him, which showed, by the amount of "rise" helm they were carrying, that the boat had a touch of negative buoyancy.
The padre, however, had no intention of being a mere passenger, and during the trip he, after a little training, was able to stand his trick on a hydroplane wheel when diving.
In hydroplane installations the American boats seem to be ahead of both of us.
E 50" came out of the affair with the loss of her port-bow hydroplane and a few dents.
After a war attack he would probably only be able to remember clearly such things as the periscope hoisting gear giving trouble and the hydroplane men appearing to be unaccountably deaf.
Six patrol boats opened fire as the conning-tower showed above water, and then the panting hydroplane men forced her down again.
The coxswain sat on a low heavy music-stool facing another white-faced diving-gauge, his big brass hydroplane wheel moving a turn or two each way under his hand.
A few hands keep watch on the hydroplane wheels, the pumps, and the motors; the rest take it easy.
At regular intervals the hydroplane motors buzzed noisily as a turn of the wheels corrected her depth; from right aft came the monotonous ticking of a main motor that slowly turned the port propeller and urged the boat lazily along.
The hydroplane wheels whirred and the boat tilted up and climbed to the accompaniment of sighs and roars, as a couple of external tanks were partly blown.
The scouting hydroplane dashed over the submarine like a bat; two pale faces looked down and disappeared.
A hydroplane can rise from the surface of the water just like a wild duck might.
Truth to tell Frank was eager to get his new hydroplane away from those searching eyes of Mr. Marsh.
He was of an inventive turn of mind, and believed he had several new features connected with this hydroplane that as yet were, so far as he knew, novel to the science of aviation.
So Frank had to go back and relate what had occurred at the time Andy dropped from the hydroplane into Lake Sunrise, and saved little Tommy Cragan from becoming food for the fishes.
Not a soul on board had seen anything like this; everyone simply stood and held his breath, and watched the hydroplane and the white puff-balls following it.
The hydroplane was coming back, the puff-balls had ceased, and with long spiral swoops she slid down on the water and spun along the surface to the Aennie Rickmers.
Illustration: A British hydroplane returning to the mother ship after patrol duty over Saloniki.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hydroplane" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
