Originally posted by Droneklax:
Kid, whatever momentum you have when you take off you keep.
Otherwise, jumping with both feets off the ground in LAX would take you to Tokyo at 1000 miles an hour 
There's a new era in air travel....
Reminds me of something they were talking about in Arizona a few years back. They were talking of building a COMMERCIAL Space Shuttle pad in Arizona. After loading, you would blast off through the atmosphere, and descend in something like an hour to Tokyo!
What would Orville and Wilbur think.
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