Supersonic Flight

Supersonic flight is of the best hand in hand technologies associated with the space elevator. Jets using laminar aerodynamic wings substantially reduce drag at high speeds and require less force to go faster.

Difficulties with the FAA's laws regarding sonic booms are easily solvable with altitude. Examine this:

Under FAA rules, the SBJ could fly no faster than Mach 1 over U.S. territory - meaning that, even at 51,000 feet, the plane would have to remain below 660 mph. Over Europe, however, it could go well past 700 mph, because even though the aircraft would create a sonic boom at that altitude, the shock waves wouldn't be audible on the ground.

To comply with ordinance and provide for the common good, raising the scramjet's altitutde from takeoff to inaudible rage or raising the midairport's altitude, or both, is a seemly solution.

The jet developed by this inventor would travel at mach 1.5 and go from New York to Tokyo in 10 hours, carrying 12 people. A scramjet would be capable of doing this in about 2 hours. Today's commercial jets travel in about the 5-600-mph range and such journeys would take in excess of 20 hours and require numerous layovers.

Midairports and scramjets can provide economically and environmentally sound practices to make air travel both quick and easy.