I mean, why do you expect this to be going faster than commercial airlines?
They’d certainly be able to control the speed at which these things get squirted to the next tower. Considering how close together these towers are illustrated to be, the parabolic arc could be pretty flat even at subsonic speeds.
The question is, what would it be like to ride? Between the towers the vehicle is in free fall, so the passengers would be weightless for like 0.5s and then get a kick in the ass as they pass through a ring, then weightless agains, and so on.
You’d need to make the individual carriages long enough and/or place the coils close enough together for the carriage to always be supported by at least two coils. In such a case, it’d likely feel like a pitch oscillation. Like being rocked back and forward, fairly little and very quickly.
I mean, why do you expect this to be going faster than commercial airlines?
They’d certainly be able to control the speed at which these things get squirted to the next tower. Considering how close together these towers are illustrated to be, the parabolic arc could be pretty flat even at subsonic speeds.
The question is, what would it be like to ride? Between the towers the vehicle is in free fall, so the passengers would be weightless for like 0.5s and then get a kick in the ass as they pass through a ring, then weightless agains, and so on.
You’d need to make the individual carriages long enough and/or place the coils close enough together for the carriage to always be supported by at least two coils. In such a case, it’d likely feel like a pitch oscillation. Like being rocked back and forward, fairly little and very quickly.