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Posted by RTS_book on Tue Aug 25 20:14:28 2009, in response to Re: Millennium debt deepens, posted by JAzumah on Tue Aug 25 20:00:27 2009. By now, it should have happened, but it's hardly "not that hard," considering the approach taking to engineering strength into the RTS structure (and, for that matter, the LF Transbus prototypes--the ideas in lowering floor height thirty years ago were quite different than they are today).We've seen the "production intent" Extreme prototype. Yes, everything ahead of the rear door is LF, but you still need to engineer the suspension changes, to say nothing of the structure. You lose the normal underfloor bulkheads in the modules moving to the LF--you've either got to recoup the loss of structure in the roof or in the sidewalls. Nova also tried adding lower windows so as not to give the impression to passengers in the LF portion. I don't see the LFS-RTS relationship, as that structure is completely different (quite European, actually...). If you're going to square off the lower flanks of the RTS for an LF, you're just as good just designing an all-new LF design. |
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