Air transport and the railway have their pros and cons. Someone prefers one mode of transport, and someone – another. Photos from open sources And scientists and engineers from the Polytechnic schools in Lausanne combined both of these modes of transporting people into one. And his name is Clip-Air.
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Clip-Air – a plane that carries wagons across the sky
People who follow the development of modern transport, probably saw hybrids combining a car and a motorcycle or plane and helicopter. A Swiss engineers and scientists from the city Lausanne united two seemingly completely opposite each other’s ways of transporting people and goods – airplane and train.
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Clip-Air – a plane that carries wagons across the sky
A vehicle concept called Clip-Air Introduces a huge plane that has not one but three capsule bodies. Each of them can be filled with people or loaded separately and then attached to a common base.
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Clip-Air – a plane that carries wagons across the sky
Clip-Air developers compare their brainchild with a train that from now on it will run not on rails, but in the sky, and capsules in this mode of transport will serve as railroad cars composition.
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Clip-Air – a plane that carries wagons across the sky
The great thing about this concept is that these capsules can all also serve as ordinary wagons. And you can fill them with people at train stations, not at airports. This is an innovation, and also where a large capacity airliner will make Clip-Air flights are much cheaper than even the most economical modern airplanes.
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Clip-Air – a plane that carries wagons across the sky
Another advantage of Clip-Air is that it is a transport the product can combine three under one wing at once airlines, which, incidentally, will be able to take in rent, not buy your own aircraft. More truly, in in this case, individual capsules.
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