The Aérotrain was an experimental Tracked Air Cushion Vehicle (TACV), or hovertrain, developed in France from 1965 to 1977 under the engineering leadership...
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The Aerotrain was a streamlined trainset that the General Motors (GM) Electro-Motive Division (EMD) introduced in 1955. GM originally designated the light-weight...
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The Aerotrain is an automated people mover system located within the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia. Opened in 1998 along with the airport...
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Aerotrain may refer to: Aérotrain, a hovercraft train developed in France AeroTrain, an tiltrotor aircraft proposed by Karem Aircraft Aerotrain (GM),...
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AeroTrain is a 3.78-mile (6.08 km) underground automated people mover system at Washington Dulles International Airport, in Dulles, Virginia, United States...
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Hovertrain (section Aérotrain)
Bertin in the early 1960s in France, where they were marketed as the Aérotrain before being abandoned by the French government. Hovertrains were seen...
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Page contains a description of the Aerotrain and an image of the front of Aerotrain locomotive number 2. "Aerotrain No. 2" (photograph). August 1970. Archived...
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connected to the main terminal and other concourses via the AeroTrain. To that extent, the AeroTrain station at Concourse C was built at the location where...
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The Aerotrain operates between three and five-minute intervals between terminal. Automatic train controls manage the operation of the entire Aerotrain system...
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Stéphane, and Laframboise, M. Jacques (translation/adaptation) Aérotrain - The Aerotrain Story. Retrieved 7 January 2011. Joseph George Ground Effect Vehicle...
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components under the project name, Train Y, but later marketed them as the Aerotrain. Diesel power was provided by an EMD 567C 12-cylinder engine, which produced...
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between the Main Terminal and the A-, B-, and C-Gates with the underground AeroTrain. However, some mobile lounges and plane mates remain in use for passenger...
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Peenemünde (development of large rockets propelled with liquid fuel) Aérotrain test tracks in France (development of a hovertrain system) RCN Konstantynow...
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Hovercraft and France's Aérotrain. In the U.S., Rohr Inc. and Garrett both took out licences to develop local versions of the Aérotrain. These designs competed...
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against Bertin's Aerotrain. Until this date, there was a rivalry between the French Land Settlement Commission (DATAR), supporting the Aérotrain, and the SNCF...
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railcar, outside a railcar factory in Tver, a city in western Russia. Aérotrain – a contemporary French hovercraft train, also powered by a jet engine...
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was also the United States license holder of the Aérotrain. In 1970 it produced an experimental Aérotrain design, the TACV, and purchased the rights to the...
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2020-10-31 at the Wayback Machine (see Aérotrain, Jean Bertin) at gil-sun.skyrock.com, accessed 8 March 2018 "Aérotrain et Naviplanes - l'Histoire de la SEDAM...
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stock spans more than a century of railroading. Notable items include an Aerotrain; Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4017, one of the world's largest steam locomotives;...
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ladders, hovercraft, glass wall manufacturing, Swerve rack for magnetic aerotrain It now belongs to the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC)...
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I80 or variation, may refer to: Interstate 80 (I-80), a U.S. highway Aérotrain I80, a hovertrain Cascade Kasperwing I-80, an ultralight motorglider HMS Sherwood (I80)...
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details. Modes of transport that have been cited as gadgetbahns include: Aérotrain Autonomous Rail Rapid Transit Gondola lift Ground effect train Guided...
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reversing the vehicle, and with operating a propeller close to passengers. Aérotrain, a French hovercraft train using ducted fans and jet engines Aerowagon...
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CRRC Nanjing Puzhen are manufactured in Wuhu, Anhui Province in China. AeroTrain at Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Malaysia (to be replaced with Innovia...
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are rolling along the track. Using an air cushion and a monorail, the Aérotrain set on 5 March 1974 a mean speed of 417.6 km/h (259.5 mph) and a peak...
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International Airport Terminal 3 APM, Dubai International Airport, UAE AeroTrain, Washington Dulles International Airport, United States ATL Skytrain,...
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Cleveland Limited: New York–Cleveland Detroiter: New York–Detroit Great Lakes Aerotrain: Chicago-Detroit/Cleveland 1956 (Special experimental lightweight train)...
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premières dames de France de la Ve République". Retrieved June 6, 2010. "Aérotrain, high speed rail and nuclear technology: the lessons of Jean Bertin, Karel...
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Neuilly-sur-Seine. He is best known as the lead engineer for the French experimental Aérotrain mass transit system. He studied at the École Polytechnique (graduating...
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Innovia APM 100 operating on AeroTrain at Kuala Lumpur International Airport...
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