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Sorry, but I'm having trouble visualising this in my head. When and how do these platforms go horizontally?
They rotate around these poles. So it's not exactly horizontal, more like an exaggerated version of going to a theme park and getting on, for example, the swing ride. You usually aren't in the same place when you get back down on the ground as you were when it started moving. But I'm imagining other swing rides being close enough to also connect to that point tangentially, and you're using the fact that by daisy-chaining the rides on different poles allows you to reach different places.
The version in my head has way bigger radii, obviously, but that's the gist.
I get it now thanks. That's definitely novel to me. It could make for a fun method of transportation at a theme park!
I thought so.
You'd need a lot more of them than there are airports, and I have no ideas to make it doable or sustainable.