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Word: hovair (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Transportation Technology-Otis system uses six-to-ten-passenger Hovair vehicles that float on a cushion of air between them and a trackway. The blast of air that keeps the vehicles suspended is produced by electric engines, but the cars are pulled along by electromagnets that are embedded in a third rail in the track and controlled by a computer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The People Movers | 6/12/1972 | See Source »

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