Modular transportation system with aerodynamic lift augmented tr

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1984-04-19

1989-06-27

Reeves, Robert B.

Railways

Fluid supported car or simulated aerial vehicle

104139, 104 91, 104 94, B61B 1308, E01B 2522

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048418714

ABSTRACT:
A monorail transportation system utilizing generally inverted channel shaped rail members for supporting personal transit vehicles which are each suspended from the rails by a carriage having traction motor propelled drive wheels engageable with the rail channel and spaced apart vehicle supporting guide wheels. The vehicles have aerodynamically contoured bodies provided with lift surfaces which provide varying degrees of lift in accordance with vehicle speed and angle of attack to reduce mechanical friction in the carriage and structural loading on the rail network. The vehicles are automatically controlled and used by individual user when called up from storage track sections at spaced apart stations along the rail network.

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patent: 2598251 (1952-05-01), Gesner
patent: 3349719 (1967-10-01), Young
patent: 3854406 (1974-12-01), Monne
patent: 3919944 (1975-11-01), Jorg

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