stackyFACTSIn the 1960s, engineers seriously looked at steel tracks and thought, 'What if we just blew a bunch of air under a massive box instead?' The concept of the 'Hovertrain' gained massive funding in France and the UK.
In the 1960s, engineers seriously looked at steel tracks and thought, 'What if we just blew a bunch of air under a massive box instead?' The concept of the 'Hovertrain' gained massive funding in France and the UK. While technically feasible and incredibly fast, replacing thousands of miles of existing rail infrastructure with specialized concrete hover-tracks was astronomically expensive, rendering it an absolute boondoggle.
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