Wing-Section Railcar Loses Weight At Speed
December 1963…
The airfoil section of this proposed Japanese railcar provides lift to reduce effective weight by two-thirds. This buoyancy, plus streamlining and lowered rolling resistance, will give the 80-passenger car a top speed of 125 miles per hour, the inventor says.
Recently demonstrated in model form, the pneumatic-tired Sky Car would run on two light elevated rails at a tenth the cost of a monorail system and at twice its speed.
