Abstract
At speeds above 200 mph, conventional means of suspending high speed ground vehicles lose their reliability. For this reason alternative, noncontact means of suspending and guiding vehicles at speeds up to or in excess of 300 mph have been sought. Two types of noncontact suspensions — the tracked air cushion vehicle and the magnetic levitation vehicle — are particularly attractive because of their capability for operation at high speeds of 300 mph or more. This report describes a proposed magnetic levitation system that can lift streamlined vehicles as high as a foot off aluminum guideways as they operate between urban centers, providing a safe, smooth ride that is quiet and pollution free.Frank Chilton and Howard T. Coffey, senior physicists, and L. O. Hoppie, physicist, are members of the applied physics laboratory of the Stanford Research Institute.
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