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You've also got two other problems:
1. the landing tunnel slopes downwards so when you land (and you are landing downhill which is weird) you will GAIN speed as gravity pulls you that way. The exact opposite of what you want.
2. The reverse for launch but with a suitable assistance (catapult?) you can probably overcome that.
also i would have thought that the wind effects of the landing tunnel would be very different to that of the free air outside. I'd also wonder who you'd handle problems like leaking hydrazine. In an enclosed space that stuff is leathal.
1. the landing tunnel slopes downwards so when you land (and you are landing downhill which is weird) you will GAIN speed as gravity pulls you that way. The exact opposite of what you want.
2. The reverse for launch but with a suitable assistance (catapult?) you can probably overcome that.
also i would have thought that the wind effects of the landing tunnel would be very different to that of the free air outside. I'd also wonder who you'd handle problems like leaking hydrazine. In an enclosed space that stuff is leathal.