flank speed
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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That should be time to fill the wardroom with a team of trusted officers, take the bridge and get the Navy moving, at flank speed.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 31, 2020
In the end, he determined that in 2004, Aspen was responsible for more than 840,000 tons of carbon emissions—"roughly equivalent to a large, diesel-powered aircraft carrier running flank speed at all times."
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 25, 2016
Then he signaled the engine room for flank speed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Built in England in 1932, it makes a mere twelve knots at flank speed and looks like a cross between the Merrimac and an early Frank Lloyd Wright house.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the Streets The warm Caribbean night was electric with tension as the destroyer sliced at flank speed through the quarantine zone east-northeast of Cuba.
From Time Magazine Archive
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