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Old 5th Mar 2007, 21:06
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zero g's flight,how is it done?

Hi guys

I've seen a very intresting footage in Euronews not very long ago of an

Airbus that its interior was converted to a surgery for an inflight

experiment.

The purpose was to fly in zero g's condition and at the same time a group

of doctors would operate a volunteer with a hand trauma,which they did.

The purpose behind that was to check if an operation in space shuttles

would be possible.

It was pretty amazing to see that everything inside the aircraft was

floating but what really impresses me and I don't have a clue how it's

done is what the pilots did in order to have zero g's.

The footage showed for a very short period of time a view of the aircraft

flying,where it appeared flying in an extreme high nose up attitude.

If this is how it's done I'm still wondering how they achieved to fly like

that for the duration of the whole operation(which even if I can't

remember the exact duration it couldn't be less than 10 min?)

Any ideas?

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