Elon Musk's Hyperloop concept

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https://www.engadget.com/2018/10/02/hyperloop-transportation-technologies-first-capsule/
 
Funny that they went laminar and included some heavy drag reduction shaping: weren't they supposed to have no air in the tunnel?
 
TomcatViP said:
Funny that they went laminar and included some heavy drag reduction shaping: weren't they supposed to have no air in the tunnel?

Probably be more realistic to keep it thin instead of complete vacuum.
 
sferrin said:
TomcatViP said:
Funny that they went laminar and included some heavy drag reduction shaping: weren't they supposed to have no air in the tunnel?

Probably be more realistic to keep it thin instead of complete vacuum.

A reasonably well-equipped laboratory would be hard pressed to create the sort of crappy vacuum you'd find in low Earth orbit...never mind a tunnel meters in diameter and hundreds of miles long with many, many large-size hatches that are constantly opening up to the larger environment.
 
It was always a low-pressure rather than vacuum design. Musk's initial sketches even had a fan compressor mounted to the nose.
 
https://www.newstatesman.com/future-proof/2013/12/londons-victorian-hyperloop-forgotten-pneumatic-railway-beneath-capitals-street
 
 

During SpaceX’s annual Hyperloop competition, a pod designed by the Technical University of Munich reached a record top speed of 288mph (463km/h) - but soon after exploded

Note that the video is glitched at the moment, they'll probably fix it quickly enough though.
 
 

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23n94m96flc



 
I think I'll wait for the movie. Perhaps Tom Cruise and the MI folk can do something with it.
 
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