Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Parabolic Flight

You can now experience the feeling of weightlessness on board the training airplane of the cosmonauts, the largest parabola airplane in the world - a Ilyushin 76 MDK.

The machine takes you on a 6,000 meters altitude flight. Then it rises at a steep 45 degree angle at full power. You feel 2 G's, before the pilots of the Ilyushin 76 MDK take the thrust away.



Here's a video of one of the flights.

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