Word: speedboating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bandleader Guy Lombardo and his Tempo VI, the National Sweepstakes (speedboat) championship ten-mile race; at Red Bank...
...planes pulled out of their dives. The shock waves, increased in force by the turning maneuver, continued straight down to the ground and were heard as explosive bangs. Colonel Franklin Paul, chief of the Air Materiel Command's Flight Test Division, explained that a speedboat making a sharp turn does somewhat the same thing. Its normal bow wave, increased by the pressure of the turn, grows into a foaming comber...
...battle with the jet stream can exhaust their fuel reserves. There is another reason for knowing where a jet stream is likely to be encountered: all fast-moving bodies of air are apt to be associated with turbulence which makes a 500 m.p.h. airplane bounce like a speedboat on a choppy...