Hmm. What would be the attitude of the body during flight? If you tried to fly horizontally and headfirst, Superman-style, you’d quickly get an aching neck from continuously tilting your head back. People may fly standing up. That might increase wind-resistance though.
They might fly leaning back a bit with feet forward, like they are relaxing on something invisible. Less air resistance and easier on the neck.
We’ll have to rewrite property laws to reflect whether public airspace is open for flying or whether you own the air above your property.
Legally, it use to be that you owned your property straight up forever. But after aircraft were invented, this right was modified. The general rule now is you can fly above somebody’s property as long as you stay above 150 meters. But this is a rule designed for aircraft; flying people might cause new standards to emerge.
Agreed, you can’t hit free-fall orbital speed, and I’ve not said differently all through this thread. (A free-fall orbit at 50mph relative to Earth would be a long way past the Moon…)