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Old 6th March 2007 | 18:28
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PieterPan
 
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Parabolic Flight

As a student of an Aerospace university we have the opportunity to fly (as passengers) in the university's Cessna Citation 550 (PH-LAB) to experience the motions that are characteristics of the airplane. Phugoid, short period, dutch roll, spiral dive and aperiodic roll. Once the educational part was over we were treated to a 10-15 sec (seemed like forever) of parabolic flight (0 g). I took some pictures of floating pencils etc.
Surely an awesome experience. All 6 students were able to hold their breakfast

Last edited by PieterPan; 8th March 2007 at 12:13. Reason: changed G to g
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