On June 29th, 2011 at Ellington AFB in Houston, Texas, we boarded a refurbished Boeing - 727 freighter aircraft for our NASA Reduced Gravity Flight (formerly known as the Vomit-Comet flights). Note, this aircraft still has a flght engineer station and flight engineer! Experiencing microgravity (weightlessness) while essentially in a free-fall from 34,000 ft to 24,000 ft - 32 times was an amazing experience. Fortunately a flight MD provided meds so there was no air or motion sickness. If our modified experiment is approved by NASA, we may get to fly again next summer - who knows! My next goal however is to fly on a USAF WC-130 Hurricane Hunter into a Hurricane. :-)
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