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Jean Henri Bertin (5 September 1917 – 21 December 1975) was a French scientist, engineer and inventor. He was born in Druyes-les-Belles-Fontaines and died in Neuilly-sur-Seine . He is best known as the lead engineer for the French experimental Aérotrain mass transit system.
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Hyperborea is a collection of fantasy short stories by Clark Ashton Smith, edited by Lin Carter. It was first published in paperback by Ballantine Books as the twenty-ninth volume of its Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in April 1971. It was the second themed collection of Smith's works assembled by Carter for the series.
A remaining section of the Aérotrain track near Saran 2006. The Aérotrain was an experimental Tracked Air Cushion Vehicle (TACV), or hovertrain, developed in France from 1965 to 1977 under the engineering leadership of Jean Bertin (1917–1975) – and intended to bring the French rail network to the cutting edge of land-based public transportation.
In order to be used by the air pumps, it must first be brought up to vehicle speed. Similar effects occur with almost all high-speed vehicles: thus the reason for the large and complex air inlets on fighter aircraft, for instance, which slow the air down to speeds that their jet engines can ingest. In the case of a hovertrain design, the air ...
The third sequence is set between the late-17th and the early-19th century, each book laying focus on succeeding generations of the Courtneys. Birds of Prey begins with the Anglo-Dutch naval war drawing to a close. Sir Francis Courtney, Master Navigator of the Order of St George and The Holy Grail and his son, Henry (Hal) sail off the coast of ...
N500-02 - Ingénieur Jean Bertin [a] registered BL 341.931 at port of Boulogne Sur Mer was built for Seaspeed by SNCF in 1977. It showed poor engine and hydraulic system reliability/ It had difficulty climbing the ramp to the Dover hoverpad during bad weather.
Rose Bertin (1747–1813), French milliner and dressmaker to Queen Marie Antoinette; Ryan Bertin (born 1981), American amateur wrestler; Teddy Bertin (born 1969), French footballer; Théodore-Pierre Bertin (1751–1819), French author; Willy Bertin (born 1944), Italian ski mountaineer and biathlete; Yvon Bertin (born 1953), French road bicycle ...