BOBOT
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Until recently I didn't know this was available to mere mortals; now I'm really tempted to go for a zero gravity experience.
Anybody tried it?
Anybody tried it?
Until recently I didn't know this was available to mere mortals; now I'm really tempted to go for a zero gravity experience.
Anybody tried it?
IMO no one in their right mind would pay that kind of money to ride on the Vomit Comet.
I haven't done anything like that but I did experience periods of weightlessness in a Citabria and a Decathlon during some acrobatic training. The periods of weightlessness were more like 5-10 seconds as I remember, it was quite a while ago. And we stayed strapped in.
One part I do remember was pulling up from the dive and going ballistic, and dropping a pencil in front of me, then flying the airplane around the now-weightless pencil. I was surprised that control could be that precise.
And even now renting a single-engine airplane with an instructor would be a lot cheaper than $5k. It does look like it'd be a lot of fun!
IMO no one in their right mind would pay that kind of money to ride on the Vomit Comet.
Yea, you could get a private pilot license for about 5k. All the weightlessness you can handle.