In early 1970s in Russia there were tests of trains that had jet plane engines.
Its maximum speed was around 249 km/h (around 155 mph). And it had engines from Yak-40 passenger jet plane.
Later they decided to put the engines from another Russian jet plane TU-134 to the passenger boat. So it could go as fast as 100 km/h (60 mph) on water when carrying passengers!
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It’s a big pity but none of those are in use these days.
Another wrong story!
Boats are widely used:
http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=304946465&context=set-72157594389753696&size=o
That picture doesn’t have jet engines.
At first this picture here was very small. didn’t see also any jet engines..
It doesn’t look very aerodynamic, prob just flew off the rails and mass production was never implemented..
The hydrofoil indeed looks like Kometa, pity that the picture is so tiny, hard to tell if there’s anything special in that Kometa. I can only imagine what kind of a ride it would be in a hydrofoil with jet engines.
There is still one Kometa in service in gulf of Finland, and from experience I can say it’s not the funniest ride when there’s waves. On a calm weather the ride is pretty nice.
hmm… actually the one remaining in baltics is not Kometa but Olympia class.
“Full-load displacement 138 tons, speed 37 knots, passengers 250 prs, range 300 n.m.”
Thats it!
http://www.seatech.ru/eng/ships/yachts/hydrofoils.htm
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Gas-turbine driven hydrofoil “Burevestnik” is a high-speed passenger vessel used for transit and local trips across rivers and reservoirs through a range of up to 500 km.
Length-43,2m, Breadth-7,4m, Draft in displacement-2.0m, foilborn-0,6m
Speed-90 km/hr, Power-2×2700 hp, Passengers-150.
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There used to be a gas-turbine driven Cyclone in service between Finland and Estonia also not so long time ago, but it was sold to Greece as it was too expensive to operate.
We did the same thing here in the US; we took a Budd car and put the engine pod from a B-36 or B-47 onto it.
We also have supersonic train
“Jet train”, my fanny. It’s clearly a soviet attempt to break the fastest jet powered mongoose(elk) in the world record.
Replacing the antlers with jet engines shows how inadequate the beast must have been feeling. No doubt the testosterone factor was seriously boosted by the upgrade….
More pictures of this train here: http://www.ifun.ru/comments/joke10305.html
The jet boat looks very much like this one that I saw in China in 2005: http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/33325.jpg
That’s regular Meteor class river going hydrofoil. Pretty wide spread type of hydrofoil also outside Soviet Union/Russia.
Yeah, day-by-day between the capitals of Hungary and Austria:
http://szarnyashajo.budapestiszallodak.hu/menetrend.html
it is also the Kometa like all the other pictures too, it had two aM-diesel engines and my hometown Stralsund had three of them between the 70th and the end of GDR, also the HADAG in Hamburg had one for testing
They did put jet engines on anything, didn’t they?
This is a gas-turbine driven hydrofoil “Burevestnik” is a high-speed passenger vessel used for transit and local trips across rivers and reservoirs through a range of up to 500 km.
Gas turbines through reductors rotate propellers
Length-43,2m, Breadth-7,4m, Draft in displacement-2.0m, foilborn-0,6m
Speed-90 km/hr, Power-2×2700 hp, Passengers-150.
dont like the look of the train, looks like it will be too fast for its own good, and expensive to run
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