I’ve always been fascinated by videos of the freefall experience of a parabolic arc flight (usually in a Boeing 727), which is done for astronaut training, and was used to make the Jim Lovell movie Apollo 13. It’s something I absolutely intend to do one day!
One firm that offers this to the general public is ZERO-G. I’ve heard only good things about them and their services. A flight costs $4,950; for most people it would be a once in a lifetime experience. “During the flight 12-15 parabolas are performed each providing about 30 seconds of reduced gravity or weightlessness… [The] 12-15 parabolas are flown for an approximate weightless time of eight minutes.”
Another reason why we’re so excited about establishing a new indoor skydiving vertical windtunnel here in the Seattle area: an 8-minute wind tunnel ride could be had at about 4% of the cost of the parabolic jet ride, bringing the adventure, the thrill, of human flight into many more people’s lives… and they can come again and again.
