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TRENDS MASS TRANSIT SEPTEMBER 2017 32 CompositesWorld When you get serious, upgrade to Anderson. If you're serious about your business, then you require a serious machine. Not a toy, a design tool, or a beta model that's the first of its kind being proven out and tested at your expense and your frustration on your shop floor. Since 1991, Anderson America has been satisfying the most demanding US customers with over 4500 CNC Router installations for Composites, Aluminum and Non Ferrous in North America. We exclusively use FANUC control systems matched with FANUC servos and electronics which have a 25 year parts availability guarantee. electronics which have a 25 year parts availability guarantee. 10710 Southern Loop Blvd. Pineville, North Carolina 28134 Ph.(704)-522-1823 Fx.(704)-522-0871 www.andersonamerica.com Imagine traveling between Los Angeles and San Francisco (350 miles, or about six hours by car) in less than 30 minutes. It's not here yet, but it's no longer science fiction. Tesla Motors and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unveiled in a white paper the idea for Hyperloop, a radically new, high-speed ground transport system, back in 2013. Featuring a network of vacuum tubes running between passenger boarding stations, it would link cities separated by hundreds of miles. Magnetically levitating "pods" would literally fly passengers to destinations through nearly atmosphere-free and, there- fore, friction-free tubes, moving as fast as today's jet aircraft. To accelerate system development, Musk announced a competition that called on teams of university students to design and build the Hyperloop pod. In early 2015, MIT students won the Hyperloop design competition's first round. Competing against 100 other teams from around the world, MIT graduate students won the best overall design award for a half-scale Hyperloop pod. MIT's final capsule came in roughly 2.5m long, about 1m wide and weighing 250 kg, according to MIT. The pod's shell featured woven carbon fiber and polycarbonate sheets. The team from Delft University of Technology Hyperloop: Composites help enable maglev transport (The Netherlands) came second on the strength of an innova- tive design that featured a full carbon fiber composite chassis that weighed in at only 149 kg. These teams joined 19 others in the competition's next phase, in which they would test small-scale pod working prototypes on a Hyperloop test track in California. Here, students from the Scientific Workgroup for Rocketry and Spaceflight (WARR) student initiative from the Technical University of Munich prevailed with the "fastest pod" and also won the award for "Best Performance in Flight." Source | Carnegie Mellon Source | Hyperloop One