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    quatrezoneillles (quatrezoneilles@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 23-Dec-2023 19:53:23 JSTquatrezoneilllesquatrezoneillles
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    This is slighty OT but I can't resist mentioning that if you take the old Paris-Bordeaux train that leaves from Gare d'Austerlitz, just before arriving at Orléans you'll see the experimental elevated tracks for the Bertin Aérotrain, which used hovercraft technology and was in operation between 1966 and 1977,
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%C3%A9rotrain

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      Aérotrain
      The Aérotrain was an experimental Tracked Air Cushion Vehicle (TACV), or hovertrain, developed in France from 1965 to 1977 under the engineering leadership of Jean Bertin (1917–1975) – and intended to bring the French rail network to the cutting edge of land-based public transportation.Though similar to a maglev design, which levitates a train car over a complex electromagnetic track to eliminate all resistance other than aerodynamic drag, the Aérotrain – also a "train without wheels" – rode on an air cushion over a simple reinforced concrete track or guideway and could travel at the speed of a maglev train, without the further technical complexity and expense of its track. In many respects, the entire concept resembled a product of the aircraft rather than rail industry. History In 1969, a U.S. company, Rohr Industries, licensed the Aérotrain technology to build the hovertrains in the United States. That same year the Aérotrain established the world record for a TACV, the pilots saying that with a longer track even higher speeds could have been reached without major difficulties. The final prototype, the Aérotrain...
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