Upper Air
Technically, the fact that you cover a slightly greater distance up at altitude, then running right along the surface of the earth would slightly increase the effects of jet-lag when you're going from east to west, and slightly reduce the effect of jet-lag when you're going west to east.
I think she is building either a new ICBM or alternately a new space craft which needs little fuel.
Ya got me! I'm building me a spaceship! Rather than moving around the universe, it moves the universe around the ship