Zero G parabolic flight view

[Myunnamed]

Oh my, wait let me see, first the airplane was going to the right of the video right?! the after going down, then up, at last come back by the left?! oh my brain is so confused! haha

[nuggie9511]

How long is it flying 45 degrees up, then back down for?

[mquiroz90]

Dang it's like ur 23,000 ft

[ajkochanowicz]

@Dime10Nasa But it is "zero G" in the sense of a "G" being a measurement equal to the acceleration of gravity. In the same way that in a fast jet, you might experience several Gs even though gravity itself is the same.

[czasamitrudno]

Does the plane stalls when climbing? OK. even when it´s stalling...

[JesusWasAnAsshole]

I would LOVE to do this

[pillow105]

Just imagine if the plane was transparent......that would be FUN!!!!!

[erpuzzetta01]

My belly couldn't handle that feeling... xD

[violetvanille]

omg i would shit my pants

[MrKyvegas00]

when the plane goes back up thats a lot of pressure on those wings

[blacklotus808]

They should do this on normal flights just to make it interesting.

[CupWave]

Hmm 5,000 dollars a person for 30 secounds of weightless? no way over priced

[WowThoseAreHuge]

@CupWave More than 30 seconds.

[zivilo]

@CupWave lol they do it 5 to 30 times..not just one single time

[heber17641]

@CupWave They do it 12 to 15 times. Not only once.

[jo951000]

When is it you start floating? When it goes up or down?

[shello700]

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[zuckerchrank]

lol huge conversation...¨

and to answer....

@isays because you only see problems everywhere, and are a stubbourn ass...

[alessandrofer99]

I'm scared only watch this video

[gigga97]

$5000?

LOL.....go skydiving, Same feeling and about $4850 less.

[ThirdSon13]

@gigga97

Skydiving is not like floating around in a plane like that. If you jump out of a plane to parachute down, right away you have a lot of force on your body from your 75-100 mph wind! And then you quickly build up high speed downward in a few seconds to get up to your terminal velocity when you feel the same sort of force of your weight! Exhilarating, yes, but not true free fall (with no external forces).

[DIME10NASA]

@gigga97

No, it's not the same. At terminal velocity, a skydiver feels his weight by the air rushing past him/her.

[snowgirl1052]

Is flying parabolas difficult?

[snowgirl1052]

Iam curious about this. Do pilots experience weightlessness when doing parabolas, do they vomet, or is is just the people in the back of the plane. I have always been curious about the Vomit Comet, how they fly the plane and all videos ever show is weightless people and people vomiting.

[Avantime]

@snowgirl1052 Spend $250-300 and rent a Cessna 152 Aerobat+instructor for an hour and you can do as many parabolas as you like.

[MrCrazyfucker123]

@Avantime whats the point then if your strapped into a small plane....

[DIME10NASA]

@snowgirl1052

Yes, the pilots get the same feeling but they are strapped in their seats so they don't go floating around!

As for vomiting, that is usually what happens to a new person or someone who didn't take their medicine. Many of the repeat people do not have trouble (for example, the pilots).

The airplane is flown somewhat like a roller coaster, up and down and up and down, etc. When the airplane is going up, across the top and going down, then the people can float around.

[jlauthorities]

y spend it on a 2 hour flight, when you can take a 5k trip to Aruba for 2 weeks? It's 0 Gravity. just picture yourself floating. Wanna find out about floating? Go to the dead sea.

[Waffel07]

LOL!

Comparison FAIL!

Dead sea and 0g? LOL FAIL

[ThirdSon13]

@jlauthorities Different kind of floating! Floating in the dead sea is like sitting on a soft couch. You still feel your weight by the salt-water or the couch pushing up to hold you. In the airplane flying like that you don't feel your weight, your stomach contents float around inside, etc.

[isays]

@jlauthorities floating in the dead sea is not like 0G. "0G" is expierenced when no percevable forces are acting on you. Like when you're accelerating towards earth at 9.8 M/2^2 (only gravity is acting on you, no wind resistence).

Swimming in a freshwater lake is close, because you're almost neutrally buoyant... but your bones will try to sink and lungs will try to float, so not quite. You are far too buoyant in the dead sea, its more like a waterbed.

[DIME10NASA]

Remember, it is NOT "zero G". Gravity didn't turn off just because the airplane flew like that. The effects of gravity (standing on the floor, buoyancy, sedimentation, etc) are drastically reduced because the airplane (and everything in side) are traveling in a path like a free-fall parabola.

Just like a ball thrown across a baseball diamond, it falls up then down in a free fall.

[con37444]

you cant fall up....-_-

[KiKoS657]

@DIME10NASA

but it's the same feeling...

[ThirdSon13]

@KiKoS657 Yep, that's the 'magic' about it. It feels like someone turned off gravity.

[christower50]

@DIME10NASA Its a zero G experience. not actual zero g

[shakenama]

@DIME10NASA The technical term would be "microgravity"

[ThirdSon13]

@shakenama

You're so right! That's the term that NASA uses to describe the conditions when the effects of gravity are drastically reduced.

[isays]

@DIME10NASA Gravity never turns off. It fades inversly proportional to the distance squared from any mass, but it never reaches 0.

A shuttle just flies a parabola that goes all the way around the earth. Not really a traditonal parabola, but its the same effect. The shuttle is constantly falling towards earth, but missing it. The plane does the same thing, but the arc it flies isn't wide enough to miss the earth :p.

[DIME10NASA]

@isays

Actually, the Shuttle and Int'l Space Station orbit the Earth in an elliptical shape, not parabolic.

The airplane, despite all the talk of "parabolic flight", actually flies in an elliptical path when it is flying as "0-g". The center of the Earth is one focus for that elliptical orbit.

The planets each orbit in an elliptical orbit as does the comets, like Halley's Comet.

[isays]

@DIME10NASA I know its not technically a parabola, since parabolas can't form a loop. You're right, it is an elipse.

The point i was making is that the plane is expierencing the same thing as the shuttle, or any spacgoing craft that we'd consider to be 0G. The plane, the shuttle, the ISS, interplanetary probes, the apollo mission, they were all just freefalling the whole time they were in "0G", although the plane has to compensate for wind resistence by keeping the throttle on.

[DIME10NASA]

@isays

Right!

[isays]

@DIME10NASA lol i must have misunderstood you then, i thought you were saying that what this plane expierenced wasn't the same as what you'd expierence in spaceflight... but it looks like we were saying the same thing after all!

How do i keep getting into arguments and then find out we're saying the same thing??? lol

[kysco]

@DIME10NASA Exactly the same thing ISS astronauts experiment inside the whole station doing a free-fall parabola.

[4ustr4li4]

@DIME10NASA no shit captain obvious!

[abenkbp]

@DIME10NASA that's right dude.. but at least we could feel the similar thing.. the G-force is about 9.8 m/s.. so if we fall in that speed, 9.8-9.8 = 0.. is that as same as the space G-force?

[Baddboy187]

i have an irrational fear of flying (dont know why, i hate it myself for it) and this video seriously scares the shit out of me

[mrlarotta]

Do the airplane stall during the peak of the manouver?

[Pkm188]

No, they push the airplane right up to the stall buffer, but they don't actually put it into a stall.

[JuanElMagnanimo]

Hi! I like this? Where can I get information ? I hope it's not expensive!

[JeffyBigH]

5000$  :(

[MyBooh15]

Goddamn, I wouldn't get in that airplane for all the money in the world  XD

[Rahkashimaster]

@MyBooh15 I have to diasagree. Then again, I think it would be fun.

[MyBooh15]

@Rahkashimaster Yeah well, good for you. I can tell you, it sucks to be a shitty flyer..!

[flykid1998]

@MyBooh15 ratard

[mlkjml]

@MyBooh15

I would pay all the money in the world to get in that plane ;)

[NugenProductions]

@mlkjml I would pay all the money in the world to buy the whole program, and fly in it til I get bored and sell it for the same price nasa pimps civilians for

[GimpGaymer]

@MyBooh15 that makes fun!!!!!!!!

[JesusWasAnAsshole]

@MyBooh15 , Please dont take the Lord's name in vain. It looks like a fun ride though.

[AZIlluminati08]

@JesusWasAnAsshole god damn people suck

[AZIlluminati08]

@MyBooh15 jesus christ shut your bible humping god loving mouth, jesus this jesus that, abraham hit me witha whiffle ball bat

[clubbythe]

@Dalaskan Learn to grammar?

[rochelimit55555]

It must be very very expensive to do a 0 G experience.

[Faucon551237]

Go to the first airfield you find. Then ask to a flight instructor.

[0871356005]

its between 4 and $5000

[jxdigital]

Nice view! Too bad we didn't make the parabolas that high...