- Is Richard Branson’s high-speed train in a pneumatic tube pie in the sky? First airlines, then spaceships. Now the Virgin boss wants to build Hyperloop One – a high-speed, pneumatic maglev railway. But engineering experts doubt that it will ever leave the station https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/22/richard-branson-elon-musk-hyperloop-one-pie-in-the-sky 15 comments technology