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Jul 2, 2009 8:30 AM
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For nearly four decades, Russian engineers tried to set up a a flying car public transportation system in Moscow and other parts of Russia. We've got the history and future of their dream, in pictures.
The system wouldn't have cars that flew exactly - instead, they would be suspended from thin wires you could barely see. According to English Russia:
It was called the "super string transportation system" and was claimed to come to replace the existing rail road technologies. The steel cords under great tension had to be stretched on the polls across all the country to support the high speed (up to 500 km/h - 300 mph) trains movement.
read more: #retrofuturism, #publictransportation, #superstringtransportationsystem, #engineering, #transit, #flyingcars
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