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couldn't there be flying trains as well Aren't those called airplanes?
by Johnny555 7y ago
couldn't there be flying trains as well
Aren't those called airplanes?
- gumby 7y agoAirplanes are busses; they rarely tow another plane. Technically I suppose if you tow a sailplane into the sky then the powered aircraft is a locomotive with the sailplane in train. So yes, there can be and are flying trains.
- jharger 7y agoWhat about a chain of airships?
- gumby 7y agoI’ve never seen one and I would think they would be hard to stabilize, somthey’s Need engines...in which case just let them fly alone.
- objektif 7y agoWhat abiut multiple airplanes flying close to each other.
- gumby 7y agoTechnically I suppose they are in train, like a column os soldiers, sure, but I think by ‘train’ in this context the idea was the one in front pulls the others. The closes you could get with flying in formation would be drafting in a V as birds do — quite dangerous for planes! (Consider the XB-70). Wingtip coupling isn’t “in train” plus has always been fatal