| Perhaps you have not heard the Japanese now | | | | have to slow down quick if there is an earthquake |
| have a bullet train that exceeds 250 mph. The | | | | and the Japanese have already thought about |
| only problem is that takes a long time to slow | | | | that too. The bullet train has spoilers, which come |
| down, so it doesn't reach Top Speed on every | | | | out like giant Japanese fans to break the air and |
| trip or stay at those Top Speed for very long. | | | | slow the train down as much as 10 mph per |
| But its speed is what you need then this bullet | | | | second and back down to 55 mph, when the |
| train is best of breed.The previous fastest bullet | | | | brakes kick in hard.The nosecone of the bullet |
| trains ran at 125 miles an hour in Japan between | | | | train is over 52 feet long in order to shape the |
| our Osaka and Tokyo. But the French with their | | | | airflows so they will streamline along the body at |
| TGV bullet train has run at a top speed of 218 | | | | those high rates of speed. Engineers say that the |
| mph. But this new Japanese bullet train runs | | | | bullet train is even more stable at high speed due |
| consistently at 223 mph on a daily basis with a | | | | to the relative wind and special shaping of the |
| top speed of 250 mph.Of course in Japan, you will | | | | airflows. Consider this in 2006. |