FLYING LAND VEHICLES USING SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNETS

The possibility of both suspending and propelling a land vehicle completely free of its guideway at a height of 20 to 30 cm represents an entirely new concept in transportation. Resiliently supported by magnetic forces and propelled at speeds up to 500 km/hr or greater, a vehicle such as this bears a closer resemblance in both its streamlined shape and behavior to a wingless aircraft than to the more conventional train riding on wheels along steel rails. Unlike the aircraft, however, from an environmental point of view it is almost noiseless and pollution-free. In this paper the basic specifications for a magnetically levitated test vehicle using superconducting magnets and linear synchronous motor propulsion along a powered guideway is discussed.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Presented at the Int. Hovering Craft, Hydrofoil and Adv. Transit Syst. Conf., Brighton, Sussex, Engl., May 13-16, 1974.
• Corporate Authors:

  Kalerghi Publications

  51 Welbeck Street
  London W1,   England 
• Authors:
  • Rhodes, R G
  • Mulhall, B E
  • Abel, Eyob
• Conference:
  • Presented at the Int. Hovering Craft, Hydrofoil and Adv. Transit Syst. Conf., Brighton, Sussex, Engl., May 13-16, 1974.
• Publication Date: 1974

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 157-166

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: High speed vehicles; Intelligent transportation systems; Magnetic levitation
• Old TRIS Terms: Advanced systems; High speed ground vehicles
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00132946
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Report/Paper Numbers: Proc Paper
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 5 1976 12:00AM