China to design ‘Flying Train’

Already containing the world’s fastest bullet trains, China is now planning to make its own ‘flying train’.

The state-owned China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) has announced its plans of developing a next generation of trains that can travel up to speeds of 2,500mph and are 10 times faster than the world’s fastest bullet trains.

Looking forward to develop these super fast trains, the deputy general manager at CASC, Liu Shiquan believe that these trains would be the trains of the future that could “fly on the ground”.

These ‘flying trains’ would allow passengers to travel from Beijing to Wuhan in half an hour, the journey which currently takes five hours.

A website The Paper wrote regarding these plans, “The corporation has built rich experience and accumulated technological know-how through major projects, and it has the capabilities in simulation, modeling and experimentation for large-scale projects, as well as the world-class design capability for supersonic aircraft, all of which lay the important ground for the super-fast train project.”

According to CASC officials, in order to accomplish the proposed project, they will team up with over 20 various research institutes, domestic and international. The scientists also believe that these innovative trains will compete with the new Hyperloop technology being built by Elon Musk.

The contractors claimed that they would transport the supersonic train to more than 60 countries across Asia, the Middle East, Europe and Africa.

Express.co informs that the chief designer Mao Kai claimed about the passenger safety saying that the acceleration of the train is slower than that of civil aircraft. Whereas, critics believe that human body would not be able to resist such strong acceleration for longer time durations.

Furthermore, China has also laid down plans for an intercity train that travels at more than 600mph, reports Independent.