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"Last Saturday, a two-seater SIAI-Marchetti S.211 jet took off from Essendon
Fields Airport in Melbourne with an expert aerobatic pilot at the controls and
a case full of scientific experiments in the passenger seat.
Pilot Steve Gale took the jet on Australia’s first commercial “parabolic
flight”, in which the plane flies along the path of a freely falling object,
creating a short period of weightlessness for everyone and everything inside.
Parabolic flights are often a test run for the zero-gravity conditions of
space. This one was operated by Australian space company Beings Systems, which
plans to run regular commercial flights in coming years.
As Australia’s space program begins to take off, flights like these will be in
high demand."
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
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https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
