There is a 1. 5 km aerial tramway connecting the city of San Marino on top of Monte Titano with Borgo Maggiore, a major town in the republic, with the second largest population of any Sammarinese settlement.

Indeed, for the tourist visitor the aerial tramway gives the best available views of Borgo Maggiore, as the cars sweep low over the rooftops of the main town square.

Two aerial tramway cars, known as gondolas, and numbered ' 1 ' and ' 2 ', operate in opposition on a cable, and a service is provided at roughly fifteen minute intervals throughout the day.

The upper station of the aerial tramway serves no other purpose ( although it is situated close to a tourist information office ).

* December 23 – The highest aerial tramway in Europe, the Klein Matterhorn, opens.

The word tram, for instance, is generally used in the UK and many former British colonies to refer to what is known in North America as a streetcar, but in North America tram can instead refer to an aerial tramway, or, in the case of the Disney amusement parks, even a land train.

( The usual British term for an aerial tramway is cable car, which in the U. S. usually refers to a ground-level car pulled along by subterranean cables.

Avala by taking an aerial tramway over the harbor, but on April 17 of that year a U. S. Navy plane, flying overhead as part of the Flag Day celebrations, struck the cable ; the plane crashed into a wing of the Rainmaker Hotel.

In 1898, a 14-mile, steam-operated aerial tramway was constructed up the Skagway side of the White Pass, easing the burden of those prospectors who could afford the fee to use it.

An Port Vell Aerial Tramway | aerial tramway in Barcelona, Spain

An aerial tramway in Italy

With this form of lift, the grip of an aerial tramway cabin is fixed onto the propulsion rope and cannot be decoupled from it during operations.

An aerial tramway consists of one or two fixed cables ( called track cables ), one loop of cable ( called a haulage rope ), and two passenger cabins.

Ore bucket on the aerial tramway leading from the Mayflower mine, near Silverton, Colorado, USA

The perfection of the aerial tramway through mining lead to its application in other fields including logging, sugar fields, beet farming, tea plantations, coffee beans and guano mining.

An escape aerial tramway is a special form of the aerial tramway that allows a fast escape from a dangerous location.

An escape aerial tramway exists on launch pads 39A and 39B at Cape Canaveral.

World's longest functioning aerial tramway: Forsby-Köping limestone cableway | Forsby-Köping

** Norsjö aerial tramway Mensträsk-Bjurfors in Norsjö, Sweden.

TNT, an aerial digital television service, will be expanding its service to Saint Pierre and Miquelon by the end of 2010 ; unlike SPM Telecom's cable service, TNT offers only RFO and Metropolitan France channels.

An aerial insert is used in places where it is not possible or practical to place a cable underground.

Outside plant cabling, whether copper or fiber, is generally installed as aerial cable between poles, in an underground conduit system, or by direct burial.

A gondola lift has cabins suspended from a continuously circulating cable whereas aerial trams simply shuttle back and forth on cables.

Some aerial trams have only one cabin, which lends itself better for systems with small elevation changes along the cable run.

* February 3, 1998: U. S. military aircraft severed the cable of an aerial ropeway in Cavalese, Italy, killing 20 people.

* An aerial tramway consists of a cabin suspended from a cable, pulled by another cable.

This experiment was the basis for the request for his first patent, which he sought in the same year: an aerial cable car with multiple cables, with which it obtained a level of safety suitable for the transport of people, not only cargo.

The cableway of 580 meters in length is an aerial cable car that spans the whirlpool in the Niagara Gorge on the Canadian side, constructed between 1914 and 1916, a Spanish project from beginning to end: devised by a Spaniard, constructed by a Spanish company with Spanish capital ( The Niagara Spanish Aerocar Co. Limited ); a bronze plaque, located on a monolith at the entrance of the access station recalls this fact: Spanish aerial ferry of the Niagara.

Hitler demanded that a road and rail bridge be built across the Strait of Kerch in the spring of 1943 to support a push through the Caucasus to Persia, although the cable railway ( aerial tramway ) which went into operation on 14 July with a daily capacity of one thousand tons was adequate for the defensive needs of the Seventeenth Army in the Kuban bridgehead.

* Terrestrial television, television signals received through a conventional aerial, as opposed to satellite television or cable television

These cables may be reinforced to withstand the tension ( due to gravity and weather ) of an aerial drop ( i. e., hanging in air ), as in " messenger " type RG-6 coaxial cable, which is reinforced with a steel messenger wire along its length.

A gondola lift, also called a cable car, is a type of aerial lift which is supported and propelled by cables from above.

An elevated passenger ropeway, or chairlift, is a type of aerial lift, which consists of a continuously circulating steel cable loop strung between two end terminals and usually over intermediate towers, carrying a series of chairs.

This was followed by an aerial tramway ( cable car ).

Dual aerial systems are being removed as they will not work for reception of digital terrestrial TV ( until after switchover in 2011 ), in addition to the East Midlands variations being available through cable and satellite but many still remain from the 1990s and late 1980s.

The Department's vehicles include a pumper, an aerial, a squad truck, a squad car, and a pontoon boat for river rescues.

Current publicised projects range from an diesel engine for unmanned aerial vehicles, through to an engineering partnership on one of the world's most powerful normally aspirated road car engines.

* From that, a chariot of the gods, any mythical self-moving aerial car ( sometimes serving as a seat or throne, sometimes self-moving and carrying its occupant through the air ; other descriptions make the Vimana more like a house or palace, and one kind is said to be seven stories high ).

An Autonomous Underwater Vehicle named S. O. N. I. A., An Unmanned aerial vehicle Dronolab, a walking robot, Eclipse the solar-powered car and many others have won countless prizes in international competitions over the years.

It was modelled on the Sony ECM-51, Gene Rayburn's microphone from the 1973 – 1982 American version but was, in fact, an ECM-50 mounted on a car radio aerial.

* In 1964 the monorail closed and was replaced by the Swiss Sky Ride, a 64 car aerial ride that traveled over a 3, 800 foot path ( the longest ever built ).

The original tower, patterned after the Eiffel Tower, was built in 1912, and was connected to the adjacent amusement park, Luna Park, by an aerial cable car.

In January 1959 a Jaguar 2. 4 Fire Chief car ( 213 ) was added to the range, finished in red and with a nylon aerial, crest transfers on the front doors and the same cast sign as the Pathfinder but modified to read ' Fire Chief '.

The Ford Zodiac Motorway Patrol Car ( 419 ) was introduced in August 1960 and was finished in white with a plastic aerial fitted to the front wing, a blue light attached to the roof, a ' Police ' decal on the bonnet and a vac-formed interior detailing rescue equipment in the luggage compartment and in June 1962 the Oldsmobile Super 88 County Sheriff car ( 237 ) was added to the range.

On 3 February 1998, 14: 13 local time, an EA-6B Prowler, BuNo 163045, ' CY-02 ', callsign Easy 01, an electronic warfare aircraft belonging to Marine Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 2 ( VMAQ-2 ) of the United States Marine Corps, struck the cables supporting the aerial tramway-style cable car from Cavalese.

* February 3 – A United States Marine Corps EA-6B Prowler electronic warfare aircraft of Marine Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 2 ( VMAQ-2 ) ( VMAQ-2 ) strikes a cable supporting the aerial tramway at Cavalese, Italy, causing one of the tramways cars to plunge over 80 meters ( 262 feet ) to the ground, killing all 20 people in the car.

With the replacement of the funicular, the aerial cable car has also taken over the task of transporting goods.

The village is connected by the Luftseilbahn Stechelberg-Mürren-Schilthorn ( LSMS ), an aerial tramway, to the car-free skiing and hiking villages of Gimmelwald, Mürren and the Schilthorn, and over on the other side of the valley above the cliffs sits the car free village and resort of Wengen.

The tram is a type known as a " double reversible jigback aerial tramway ," where " jigback " means that as one tram car is ascending, the other is descending.

1940 cable car for transporting goods to the " Kölnerhaus " was installed and was turned into an aerial tramway seating five people, in 1951.