I want to catch a flying train to the AMEX:-
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[Albion] Forget the monorail and/or waterslide
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Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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WildWood
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‘Is there a chance the wings could bend?’
Take a plane and tether it to the ground so it can only move in one direction. What could possibly go wrong?
maltaseagull
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How do you get back?
Also, not much use for international travel.
Also, not much use for international travel.
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Grombleton
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- Dec 31, 2011
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That's more of a Shelbyville idea.
blockhseagull
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Erm because it looks COOL
Seasidesage
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Yeah I really want one of them flying over my house at 3am full of vomiting students...
Seasidesage
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Also how does it go up and down hills? Hmm....
joydivisionovengloves
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You wait for ages, then two come along !!!
studio150
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Cuttings obviously.
The tether is extendable to enable the flying train to rise above the hills to the side of the cutting.
This is the future and we should all be demanding that Johnson ensures that the UK is at the forefront of this groundbreaking technology.
dejavuatbtn
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It’ll never take off.
VAL1850
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What about the ones coming the other way??
Seasidesage
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That's so boring. I wanted it to lurch violently towards the ground and then suddenly jerk back up like running along with a kite...
Can we also provide parachutes for fare dodgers?
Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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Early leavers will still find ways to 'beat the queues'
Raleigh Chopper
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As one caterpillar said to another as a butterfly flew past.
You will never get me up in one of those things.
You will never get me up in one of those things.
Greg Bobkin
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- May 22, 2012
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I'm all for embracing future transportation, but I don't really get the point of a flying train, such as this. The whole point about flying cars is that you can still go wherever you like and you are relieving pressure off a congested road network on the ground. With this proposed solution, you need to build a whole new infrastructure that runs on fixed routes – with specific pickup/drop-off points – to replace something that is already there (i.e. the rail network).
