FLYING TRAIN
Air Transport Proposal
(N.Z. Press Assn. —Copyright) LONDON, August 4.
A new “land-air link” being considered by the Ministry of Aviation would carry passengers between city centres at less than 2d a mile.
Nearly an hour could be saved on a London-to-Paris run.
Passengers would board the “fuselage” of their airliner in the centre of London. The fuselage would form the carriages of a super-speed monorail or hover-rail train, which would take them to the airport at 150 m.ph. There each pod would be transferred by hover-pad air cushions to its wings and engines for takeoff. A pilot scheme between London and Paris could be in use by 1970 and the total cost would be less 'han £4OO million.
The chief designer of the project, Mr M. Miles said: “the new system could result in vast time savings. It is a forward-looking scheme and the cost is not out of proportion. It has really great possibilities and could lead to a major break-through in air transport.”
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31131, 6 August 1966, Page 15
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