>> Frank Whittle should've put a jet engine on a train ?
>
> I don't think that's ever been done, has it?  Gas
> turbines, yes, but not actually jet propulsion.  Hmmm...

I was just reading an article in Popular Mechanics about how they test
ejection seats. There is a nice photo of the front half of a F14 running
on rails pushed by what looks like two huge solid propellant rockets in
the back. The legend says this is at China Lake, in California. That would
be 'jet propulsion'. The speed must have been transsonic or above judging
from what I can see in the picture (air distortion around a steel girder
forms 180 degree apex angle). I suspect that your high speed trains do not
compete in this class but this shows that it can be done.

Peter

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