Jump to New York: The British Civil Aviation Authority recently conducted a comprehensive study on the question of how suborbital flight (a flight in which the plane goes into space but does not have the power to stay in space and returns to Earth due to gravity) in which the passenger plane leaves the atmosphere, thereby shortening the flight time between the various destinations. So the travel time from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem will be only about an hour and a half.
The results of the current study showed that passengers would have to deal with high gravitational forces during takeoff and landing, as well as if flying in zero gravity, a situation that would require them to remain tied to their seat by wearing a seat belt.
An hour and a half from Tel Aviv. Streets of New York, photo: GettyImages
"Suborbital commercial spaceflights are now available for tourism and scientific research, and are eventually expected to mature into extremely fast point-to-point travel – for example. London-Sydney in less than two hours," said a study by the British Civil Aviation Authority.
"Just like air travel, strong basic knowledge of basic aviation-related physiology is required to inform medical decision-making and maximize safe access to suborbital flight. Acceleration at a high gravitational force level is something passengers can handle, despite the temporary physiological effects they will feel."
The plane will go out into the atmosphere and return back to Earth. Earth from space, photo: None
The Times, which published the news of the study, also consulted Dr. Ryan Anderton, a senior official in the British medical establishment who also deals with the physiological effects of space flight on the body, who said: "This is something that is not science fiction, this move will happen and it will happen much sooner than people think, probably something that will probably happen in less than ten years."
It is important to note that even today there is already the possibility of such a flight, for example by Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic, but the current cost of such a flight is more than £350,000 per seat. However, in the future, regulators estimate, such flights will be significantly reduced and many will be able to use them.
It is important to note that the gravitational forces acting on takeoff and landing on passengers will be high, but this is a time of about 20 seconds at most, during which sitting correctly on the plane's seat will reduce the effects on the body, although there will be some. Therefore, passengers on such flights will also have to undergo medical examinations before takeoff and may even experiment with a device that simulates flying with high gravity.
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