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The answer is – NO, you cannot have an airplane go straight up and let the Earth pass underneath to reach your destination unless you are willing to burn an incredibly large amount of fuel and make the journey downright uneconomical.

People mistakenly assume is that the atmosphere just ‘sits there’ enveloping the entire Earth. However, it doesn’t work that way. The atmosphere is not a single entity; rather, it is a collection of gases and other constituents that move along with the Earth. It would have escaped millions of years ago, in fact, or not even existed in the first place, if not for the strong gravitational pull of our planet, that keeps it adhered and prevents the gas from escaping into space. The main takeaway from this is that, due to the rotation of Earth, the atmosphere gets ‘dragged’ along the surface of the planet, as opposed to being stationary.

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References:
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/the-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%2...
https://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/as...

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