That said the only other remarkable thing was how shaky the video was at 500km/h if the train was really moving around that much it wouldn't be too sustainable. One of the amazing things for me on the TGV was how smoothly it rode even going 200km/h.
That said the only other remarkable thing was how shaky the video was at 500km/h if the train was really moving around that much it wouldn't be too sustainable. One of the amazing things for me on the TGV was how smoothly it rode even going 200km/h.
At 250 mph, the TransRapid TR-08 simply vaporized any biological object it hame across little-to-no-damage to the vehicle (but there was a mess to clean up). A large object can be an issue, but small objects will likely be pushed aside by the pressure wave ahead of the vehicle.
That said the only other remarkable thing was how shaky the video was at 500km/h
The vehicle is still undergoing testing, the facility may not have figured out or implemented the ride-quality algorithms yet.
The Maglev train between Shanghai airport and the city is perfectly stable at 500 km/h if I remember correctly. Japan is very, very late for Maglev technology.
The development of the latter started in 1969, and Miyazaki test track had regularly hit 517 km/h (321 mph) by 1979 but, after an accident that destroyed the train, a new design was decided upon. -- Wikipedia
I'd say Japan got into the technology quite early...
The journey time was something like 8 minutes, from the airport to Longyang Road.
I wondered the same, but have a feeling some of the shakiness was due to having zoomed in quite a bit on a camera without any kind of image stabilisation. In the video, the image of the speed indicator is very shaky but then you realise it is zoomed in on the screen at the other end of the train car. So maybe it's not quite -that- shaky as it may seem.
Reminds me of something[1]... :-)