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Father puts daughter through terrifying ordeal
Quite the agile little plane they've got there!
In the Cessna I flew in with my dad at roughly that age, we were limited to parabolic arc "zero-g dives". But that was quite fun, and I still remember my dad letting me take the yoke and try them out myself (after he climbed to a safe altitude).
Get that girl behind a stick or yoke in a two-seater ASAP!
James Burke takes a ride on the Vomit Comet
"There's one way on earth to reproduce ... weightlessness ..., and that's in this plane."
Or any other plane (or whatever) that flies a parabolic arc and drops with gravity. My dad has a civilian pilot license and was part owner of a Cessna 172 small plane. When I was quite young, I'd go up in the plane with him and he would do "zero-G dives", even taught me how to do it. Get to a good altitude, pull up to near stall, and then nose over and drop.
In a light plane with limited altitude ceiling you can't get 30 seconds of zero G, but we could get 5-6 quite safely.