AeroTrain (Washington Dulles International Airport) AeroTrain (Washington Dulles International Airport) AeroTrain is a underground people mover system at Washington Dulles International Airport. It was scheduled to open in fall 2009, but was delayed until 2010 in order to complete reliability tests. It opened to Dulles employees on January 20, 2010, and opened to passengers January 26, 2010. The system mostly replaced the mobile lounges that transport passengers from the concourses to the Main Terminal. The system cost about $1.4 billion and also includes a new security screening mezzanine. The system utilizes 29 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Crystal Mover vehicles as its rolling stock. The AeroTrain transports
Dulles' Plan confusion with John Foster Dulles and his proposed anti-communist "Rollback" policy, which is sometimes referred to as the "Dulles Doctrine". The text by Ivanov also shows significant similarities to the statements of Pyotr Verhovensky, a character from the 1871 novel "The Possessed" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky: ""...we'll make use of drunkenness, slander, spying; we'll make use of incredible corruption; we'll stifle every genius in its infancy. (...) But one or two generations of vice are essential now; monstrous, abject vice by which a man is transformed into a loathsome, cruel, egoistic reptile. That's what we need!"" (Chapter VII). The plan's imperatives