Teller Talks About His Experiencing Zero G
Teller (from Penn & Teller) took a trip on the Zero Gravity flight which is now operating out of Las Vegas that offers a similar experience to NASA's Vomit Comet. That's if you can afford the $3,500 bucks for the flight.
The Movable Buffet is covering Teller's report about the trip:
You hop on a bus and they take you out there and they have an aircraft that looks like the aircraft you could dream of. The plane is like a tubular gymnasium. It is padded all around. There are a couple of windows, but those are very small. There are airplane seats at one end. The entire time I was thinking this is such a wonderful good time, how did they ever get this by the FAA? Of course, they have been working on this for 10 years. But what they got from the FAA is a 100 mile long and ten mile wide corridor to run the plane. I am in awe of their ability to navigate government bureaucracy. But you still go through a TSA screening on your way on. It killed me to see TSA people wanding down heads of casinos and newspaper owners like somehow a terrorist could slip onto such a flight. This is really for people with the money and the enthusiasm, who want to float around like they dreamed of when they were kids.
When you take off they have given you instructions ahead of time. So, you know what is about to happen and that the plane is going to be moving in this parabolic pattern. When you are at the bottom the of the parabola you are going to be about 1 1/2 times your usual weight and when you are at the top you are going to be 1/6 gravity or completely weightless.
Related:
Zero G's homepage
