Blast Off With Norton Zero G Flight 02 21 09

This is a series of short clips edited together that depict some of my experiences on the Zero-Gravity flight. The still photos at the end were taken by Robert Holland.

The Zero-Gravity sequences are a bit chaotic. This is because they are chaotic but also because it's difficult to hold the camera in such a way as to capture video and control where your body is flying.

The coaches encourage participants not to take photos and instead focus on the experience. They have several photographers on board with roving cameras and several fixed cameras that you can see in the video. Indeed did just that for the first 8 parabolas and then was comfortable enough to shoot a little video.

We experienced a total of 15 parabolas. 1 at Martian gravity, 2 at Lunar gravity, and 12 at 0 gravity. At least one or two of the 12 was negative G as evidenced by bodies gathering on the ceiling.

During the video you'll hear one of the coaches yelling warnings. They're hard to make out, but one is "On The Pull" which means lie flat at focus on a single point on the ceiling. This is the 1.8G section of the Parabola. She'll then yell "Pushing over Zero-9" Which means "time to fly". Finally "feet down! coming out" means gravity is about to return, get your feet under you as fast as you can.

Each Zero-gravity section is approximately 30 seconds long, which is enough time to do some tricks, eat some M&M's out of mid air, see water float and get an occasional foot to the face. :)

In the video:

Arriving at the airfield
Lining up for group photos
Boarding the Zero-G 727
Seating and preparing for takeoff
Short coaching session from George
Some Zero-G "chaos"
Brief synopsis in stills

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• symantec zero-g
• Zero-G
• mattb4rd
• Matt Bickford

[orenco]

I love it, I wish xD

[codememo14]

I wanna go...but...its too expensive and not in my country!

[chuckmanofgod]

The guy from 2:28-2:31 looks like one of my former flight instructors.

I think this is a very interesting flight, I would like to get on it sometime.

[roidimitrisxan]

WOOOW!

[GlowinShrooms]

awesome

[dwgrigsby]

Looks like it was a very interesting experience and clearly safer than driving :-)