727 vomit comet - how do you fly it?
Stephen Hawking's recent jolly got me thinking - yes, we all know that it flies a parabolic hump but how does one do that? It is probably easy enough to say "pressure on bum - stick forward; pressure off bum, stick back" but I assume this is not accurate enough to prevent the floating pax being bumped around against the cabin floor & roof. Could one perhaps tape a pingpong ball on a string to the overhead console & work the stick to keep the ball floating?(!!!) Also what about the pull out? - it must get to some rather severe attitudes and gees at the end of the ride - I guess they had poor old Hawking well protected during that phase of the ride?