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title: How Zero-G Planes Work — HIGH T3CH
url: https://hight3ch.com/how-zero-g-planes-work/
date: 2017-12-11
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# How Zero-G Planes Work

The European Space Agency offered me a seat on their zero-g plane: it’s an Airbus A310 that flies parabolic maneuvers, pulling up into the sky and then arcing back down, giving its passengers about 20 seconds of weightlessness (or “microgravity”) at a time. Here’s how it works.