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I suspect you can get there even faster if you don't use the Mercator projection
Well it's totally unnecessary to go above ground, let's go in a straight line through the earth, much shorter!
The line connecting any two points on the surface of the earth would take about 42 minutes to transit in free fall, ignoring air resistance and assuming perfectly spherical planet with uniform density.