John Travolta Excited About New Rocket Power  2/26/05

John Travolta is desperate to pilot an upcoming X-Team flight to the edge of space because he thinks the project will boost airline technology on earth. The Pulp Fiction star has been invited to take charge of a flight to the heavens and he thinks the technology behind the idea will herald a new age of air transport. 

He says, "It's going to lead us to airliners that could take us from New York to Paris in 30 minutes or something. "The jet age hasn't really changed since 1952 now that the Concorde is out of business... We haven't changed our speeds. We're at the same speeds we were in 1952 and we have to move on, we have to progress." 

Travolta admits he has looked long and hard at the new semispace rocket power and he thinks it will make air travel faster and comfortable. He explains, "You'd kind of take off normally to maybe 60,000 feet and then you'd do rocket power into whatever altitude is best economy for that kind of thing and speed and get as fast as you can and return the same way and land as a normal aircraft." Travolta thinks this type of new air travel will be "viable" in a decade.