"stan feldman" wrote in message
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British Rail flying saucer plan

Nuclear-powered flying saucer

A Channel Tunnel or tilting train may once have seemed far-fetched,
but these plans were grounded compared to British Rail proposals to
use flying saucers.
Recently uncovered plans show bosses filed for a patent in 1970 for a
spacecraft powered by "controlled thermonuclear fusion reaction".

With a passenger compartment upstairs, it would have been cheap to
run and super-fast, according to its inventor.

The proposals were recently found on the European Patent Office
website.

The original patent application said the reaction would be "ignited
by one or more pulsed laser beams".

The application was made on behalf of the British Railways Board and
the patent was granted in March 1973.

Posted on 1st April of that year, I presume?

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Brian
"Fight like the Devil, die like a gentleman."