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Weightless Flights Now On Sale At Sharper Image

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Wings

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]

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Tags: anti-gravity, flights, gravity, weightlessness, zergo gravity, ZergoGravity

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