Russian Jet Train and Ship
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!
It’s a big pity but none of those are in use these days.
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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 train (one car, to be sure) was never intended to be a viable proposition. It was test rig built to see how different truck/suspension combo would work at high speeds; data collected were used to design high-speed EMUs like ER-200. It’s still rusting away somewhere, parovoz.com had pitchers a while back.
As for the boat… the pitcher is NFG, but it sure as hell looks like Meteor or other similar hydrofoil still in regular passenger service on Volga and other large rivers. Nope, no jets there, just conventional diesels, and yes, it could go 60 mph with passengers.
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.”
Aha! I know what this is: it’s a turboshaft-powered Burevestnik. I was wondering what the hell those “jet intakes” were for. Still, conventional propulsion with water props and all. Incidentally, Kriegsmarine in WWII had plans for turbojet-powered attack boat (Tornado), but none of those have been ever built.
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.
Yup, a Meteor or a clone. An open deck aft of midship saloon, stubby “wings” for disembarking. Seems like they converted stern into an open deck as well, in Volga versions it’s all glassed in. Interesting A/C arrangment, though, just for the pilothouse, I assume.
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.
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dont like the look of the train, looks like it will be too fast for its own good, and expensive to run