Weightless Flights Now On Sale At Sharper Image
Just a few years ago weightless flights were a rarity. Now they have become so commonplace that they are being sold through the Sharper Image catalog. Sharper Image now sells the Zero-G weighless flight through Zero Gravity, the first FAA-approved provider of commercial weightless flights. Reservations can be made at a Sharper Image store, through the catalog or online. Since September 2004, the company has provided around 100 weightless flights for more than 2,500 passengers. The flights depart from Las Vegas and the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The experience includes a brief training session followed by a 90-minute flight aboard G-Force One, a Boeing 727. The controlled ascent and descent of the plane lets flyers to experience apparent Martian gravity (1/3 Earth's gravity), Lunar gravity (1/6 Earth's gravity), and true weightlessness. The flight costs $3,500.[via General Aviation News]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Zachary May 13th 2007 8:26PM
$3,500 for a 90 minute flight. Gee, I don't know where they get the idea of spoiled, glutoness Americans. How many starving, dieing people do you think that could of saved. Sometimes I feel like leaving this country. Someone's making a
patrick May 13th 2007 8:42PM
hey zach. . .
i see you spent money on a computer. maybe you could have donated that to your poor starving morons.and if your really serious about leaving the u.s.a. go to france they feel the same way you do about us americans.
robert May 13th 2007 10:23PM
Rosie, Peanut & Babs are BIG FAT PIGS!
Eddie Lucas May 13th 2007 11:07PM
If it's your money, waste it any way you want to. Zach has a valid point. Patrick is plain stupid and mean.
ROB May 14th 2007 1:10AM
this is a country of spoiled, gluttonly people. and there are children starving all over the world. but ya know what its their money let tem waste it anyway they want
Mike N May 14th 2007 1:22AM
If I didn't have to spend $3,500. in gasoline bills, I would spend it on this flight. The middle class is slowing being squeezed out to support the rich mans' stock profit.
westmark May 14th 2007 4:51AM
OR you could burn 35 $100 bills as lighters for cigars like they do in the old movies. That would show class. What class, I'm not sure.
Sarah May 14th 2007 5:37AM
I find it interesting that people complain that they have no money because of gasoline or George W. Bush when many lease vehicles (how many of them had a SUV when they were popular?), smoke cigarettes, drink bottled water or sodas instead of (filtered) tap water, drink coffee from Starbuck's instead of the office pot, own an iPod, purchase videogames and gaming systems when they're released, eat fast food, go to bars and order drinks, go to a movie theatre and buy concessions... this doesn't even involve spoiling children.
What it comes down to is that many people live beyond their means. Is it easier to blame society or your lack of budgeting?
No one is forcing you to waste your money on anything but taxes. People tend to live paycheck to paycheck even if they get that raise that they were hoping for. Learn to pay yourself first and invest in retirement instead of that plasma television.
Terry May 14th 2007 1:09PM
I have been on this flight last year with my son. It was terrific and worth every penny. It is much more than a 90 minute rush. I look at the pictures and think about it often. The memories last forever.
There is a lot of money being spent on items people deem gluteness. 20 years ago I was penniless. Do I not have the right to spend my hard earned money on things like this flight without someone calling me gluteness and spoiled?