Why The World's Fastest Train Looks So Weird

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Whenever I saw videos of the world's fastest train, the SCMaglev from Japan, I always wondered why it had such a long nose? The front is much longer than other trains, but was this just for a futuristic look? Well, it turns out this nose has an important purpose that came from a unexpected natural origin, the kingfisher.
#highspeedtrain #breakthrough #maglev
Video inspiration:
[Mustard] • The Word's Fastest Tra...
[Real Engineering] • How Japan's Maglev Tra...
[Vox] • The world is poorly de...
Sources:
[Train Biomimicry] www.matec-conferences.org/art...
[Piston Effect] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piston_...
[JR East Train Design] www.jreast.co.jp/e/developmen...
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:05 An Unexpected Problem
03:22 Take a Listen
03:43 Explanation
04:30 The Solution
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[@saifmohammed-fj1ov]

😅

[@1258-Eckhart]

Thanks for this highly competent explanation of a question I had asked myself, but never had the patience to leaf through Google. Our German high speed lines use the hood approach at tunnel portals, though I notice that each new class of ICE also has a longer nose than the last.

[@sbdruitt]

Soon as you mentioned a piston I immediately thought of how the ports on a 2 stroke engine work, or the ports on a MTB fork

[@xinfuxia3809]

This video explained that long nose is only one of several ways to reduce the shock wave. Long nose is not necessarily the future !

[@blankityblankblank2321]

I did not expect that people would put suppressors on railway tunnels.

[@vivisector3489]

interesting how the new Nasa supersonic X-plane, X-59, has a very similar 'duck beak' to redirect the sonic boom upwards.

[@Sekhmmett]

Impressive. Both video and the tunnels.

[@loisplayer]

Thanks for such a clear & detailed explanation of this! Super interesting

[@josephpiskac2781]

Really neat great information.

[@VoidForge]

I'm on a solo trip to Japan and literally wondered about it today. Didn't search nor talk about it with anyone. It's scary how the algorithms seem to read our minds.

[@tomsmith2209]

This is the same principle behind the shape of the new supersonic airliners being designed. I like the fact that it comes from nature (as many things do). Also, are they doing belly flops on purpose?

[@Sekhmmett]

Thanks

[@luvkilo]

HUGE SPONSOR!

[@sangatdermawanorangnya]

Wow Yamanishi maglev

[@doubleooh7337]

I know of design that produces less drag the fast it goes

[@hurbrowns5397]

How can something so current be future? Long nose trains is decades designed and used already!

[@jacquesfaba55]

Borzoi train

[@UQRXD]

Thank you. I now know something new.

[@normanmcleod7169]

Where have you been?

[@tspring6886]

ok ,so eric did it b4 me, but i was 5 years old when i built my own with no help or input from anyone. i was not a normal child for many bad resons.

[@tspring6886]

well, who built a working prototype mag life train first...... i did in 1973.

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[@ingusmant]

DUCK TRAIN 🦆🚂

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❤

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my god, finally...GET DUCKED! Bahahaha

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SPEED ??

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Noise

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no thank you

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[@eua4808]

This train solved everything even THE 25% TAX ON EVERY THING Not Usa

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Insane identifys you as click bait. Also it’s degrading and ablist