An idea for Plane Travel

**This is something i had in my old journals that i never got around to researching. Does anyone know if something like this has ever been (or could be) tried?**

 

About to venture outside my branch of knowledge with this post, so patience will be grateful.

Nevertheless, here’s an idea for plane travel.

First an analogy:
If a super tiny ant was sitting on a basketball and wanted to walk from one side to the other, it would be a time consuming process, but doable.

Ok, same scenario, but the ball is suspended and spinning: Since the ants’ frame of reference is the ball, regardless of the spin velocity, the ants’ travel time is constant right.

Ok, same scenario, but now a second object (suspended near the ball) picks up the ant for a split second while the ball is turning and then places the ant back down safely halfway around the ball. So now the ant is happy because the balls rotation was used for travel.

Now, carry this analogy to plane travel:
We could use a suspended object to hold the plane outside of the earths’ rotation for a specified time period than release the plane safely near their destination without using the needed fuel. Thus, cheaper plane travel.


Ok, here’s the best of my mathematical ability with the numbers.

Earths diameter: 8000miles
Earths rotation: 1000mph (at equator)
Typical plane velocity: 400-500 mph

Therefore, to sustain given plane velocity, we would need to travel at longitudes nearer to the poles. More specifically, we should travel at the

Cosign of the longitude (between 60-70 degrees) multiplied by the velocity of the equator (1000mph)

Cos(L) * 1000mph

Any insight would be great

We could use a suspended object to hold the plane outside of the earths’ rotation for a specified time period than release the plane safely near their destination without using the needed fuel. Thus, cheaper plane travel.

This is regular plane travel. Sometimes planes fly "against" the earth's spin.

The energy of flight is lost in the following: Getting the plane to a certain height, and overcoming wind resistance. The earth might be spinning under the plane but in order to resist being dragged with the atmosphere, you have to expend energy.

You mean kinda' like this?

http://www.space-travel.com/reports/Climbing_Into_Space_By_The_Rope_999.html