- [Sam Chui] Good morning from Las Vegas.
Super excited.
I'm going to go
on a special flight today to lose all my weight.
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It's almost like a cargo combi aircraft.
What do flight attendant do on zero G flight?
I think this might be a bad decision.
Feel we're really climbing now.
- Holy float off the floor.
- [Sam Chui] This is crazy.
I can never do push ups so easily.
Oh, haha.
- The aviator duck.
Our goal is to keep him floating and spinning.
- [Sam Chui] It feels like I was in the shoes
of an astronaut for one day
and I absolutely loved it.
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Boarding the 7 27 G Force 1,
I'm sitting in the front row here
and it's very unusual configuration.
It's almost like a cargo combi aircraft.
You have the two further fuse loge as a open gymnasium
and then you have seven or eight rows of seats
in the back right.
- There are three exit doors, one forward
and two in the back part of the aircraft.
There are four over wing window exits
only after exiting the aircraft hold down
on the red tabs to make the vest.
- [Sam Chui] What do flight attendant do on Zero G flight?
- Well our main job is to make sure everyone gets on and
off the plane safely.
Whether it's a regular landing or in the event
of an emergency, we're really trained for that.
- [Sam Chui] So no food and beverages serving this time.
- No food and beverage.
Actually, we have snacks for you guys later.
Don't worry.
- That? I'm excited.
- [Sam Chui] Excited, right?
I'm nervous actually.
I think this might be a bad decision.
How do you feel Mario?
- Awesome dude.
- [Sam Chui] Awesome.
First time, second time.
- First time. First time.
- [Sam Chui] First time? Oh okay. Any expectation?
- Yeah, I'm going to be weightless in 10 minutes.
- [Sam Chui] Let's do that.
So I was sitting in the first row
and there was a kind gentleman
agree to swap the seats to have a window view
for better making that video for takeoff of the 727.
(engine whirring)
So there are 25 of us on board this flight.
Our Boeing 727 continue to climb
to 25,000 feet in a designated air space.
You really don't need any prior training
as there are instructors on board.
And all of us attended a short briefing before the flight.
When we reached the cruising altitude
our shoes and loose belongings were taken away.
We were told now to enter the forward fuselage.
That's where the fun began.
We're five minutes out,
I was told, from the first manoeuvring
- When we reach our airspace, what we'll do is we'll say
on the pole and at that point the plane will start ascending
and that means that we're going to experience 1.8
times the normal amount of gravity.
When that happens, everyone's going to lay flat
on their back and look at one point on the ceiling.
So it's way more comfortable
cause your neck is not meant
to support almost double gravity.
Then at the peak of that parabola
everyone will just slowly float off the floor.
We don't have to give a command for that
because you will feel it then right when we're reaching
in the bottom of that parabola
you'll hear "feet down, coming down."
So that means that the plane is coming out.
It's not an invitation to do one more flip
but it means get your feet underneath you because we're
about to come on the bottom of the parabola
and that's how we do parabolas here at Zero G.
- [Sam Chui] Wow. I can feel we're really climbing now.
We're one minute from the first manoeuvre.
Whoa. I can feel a cheese right now.
(crowd cheering)
- Whoa. This is crazy.
(crowd cheering)
- Feet down. Feet down.
(crowd cheers)
- [Sam Chui] I can never do push ups so easily.
- Feet down. Feet down.
- [Sam Chui] Whoa. It's coming.
Woo
Superman.
- Feet down.
- Get ready.
- I got it. I got it. I got it.
- [Sam Chui] Yay, high five.
Got that candy in my mouth.
It tastes extra sweet.
It's zero G.
How's that?
Well this is an experience like nothing I've done before.
I went completely weightless.
I can do back flip a lot of things
I couldn't do in the real and I can do in zero G.
When the zero gravity moment happened, you can easily
feel it in your body that you're weightless
and begin to float.
We have fun with water droplets and candy floating around.
We did a total of 12 parabolas before we returned
to Las Vegas to land
and it was a day to remember for the rest of my life
(upbeat music)
(engine whirring)
- [Sam Chui] We just landed back to Las Vegas.
What an experience, one of a kind.
This is probably the closest experience feeling weightless
feeling like a NASA astronaut as well.
Right?
- I think the coolest thing was throwing the little football
to watch it just soar weightlessly through the air.
It didn't respond to gravity as you would expect
and so when you pushed it in a direction
it just continued to go and indefinitely in that
direction.
- I think the same for water droplets, the candy
- Yeah, it's really amazing.
- floats. Everything floats
- [Sam Chui] Oh, the stickers.
7 27.
Love it.
- Yes, we have lots of stickers.
- [Sam Chui] Oh wow.
This is the magic place to make all the parabolas happens.
- We only went just north of here.
We were in the desert military operations area
just north in Ellis.
It only took us about 15 minutes to get there
and we climbed up to about 25,000 feet
and started our parabolas once we were in the airspace.
So typically what we're going to do is we're going to get
the aeroplane going as fast as we can go
which in this aircraft with the quiet wing conversion
which is wingless, we can get it up to 350 indicated.
And once we get the 350 knots at 25,000 feet
we start pulling about 1.6 to 1.7 Gs.
Pull it up to about 45 degrees nose up.
And once it starts to get slow
the co-pilot is going to retard the number one
and three engine and bring the number two back
to about halfway and the captain pushes for it on the stick.
The aircraft enters the parabola as we're climbing
topping out about 30,000 feet and back down
to 25 you get about 30 seconds
of weightlessness or microgravity depending on
whether we're doing lunar or martian or zero g.
Alright, so here we have some fancy gizmos
that we use to fly in zero gravity
but primarily what we are going to use is the aviator duck.
This is our main sensor that we use to
determine our parabola quality.
So what we're going to do is when we push into the zero
we're going to have him float up
and we'll keep him right here and we can measure drift back
and forth and negative or a positive G.
Our goal is to keep him floating and spinning
like an astronaut, an astronaut duck right here.
And sometimes we'll pass him back and forth
between the crew members and we want him to rest gently
at the end of the pro back on the glares field.
And he gets fly a lot.
He's been with us since the beginning.
- [Sam Chui] So you are releasing the plane
before you are stalling the aeroplane to go down?
- That's correct.
Yeah. So just before we, we get to the minimum speed
we do a count down, the captain pushes forward
on the stick as the aircraft enters,
the parabola continues to slow as we climb
and it can get to as slow as 140.
I've seen even as low
as 120 knots at the top of the parabola.
But because we're completely unloaded, the wing has no,
the wing is not generating lift.
The aircraft won't stall.
So we'll continue over the arc
of the parabola at a very slow speed
even below the speed that we generally take
off at with fully configured
with flaps and come down the other side.
And as it accelerates
we gain the speed that we can apply lift to the wings
and then as we go positive, we could pull out of the dive.
The funny thing actually, I've seen we get so slow
at the top of the parabola that here
in Vegas about seven years ago, we had a 209 headwind.
We were actually able to fly the aeroplane backwards.
Ellis control reported
that we were five backwards during the parabola
which was really neat.
- [Sam Chui] Wow.
(upbeat music)
So as you can see everythings shut down.
We are at the end of the flight and I met up
with the CEO here from Zero G
I think, Sir, you have the best job.
How many zero G flight you have been on?
- I've done about 65 so far.
- [Sam Chui] 65 weightless experience.
Massive. Now can you give us a bit recap today
how many parabolas we did
and what happened during the flight?
- So our normal flight profile is 15 parabolas.
We start off with three lunar parabolas to get you a feel
for what it's like to be on the moon, which is very cool.
At that point you have some control over where you are
what you're doing, things of that sort.
And then after we've done the three lunars,
we then start with zeros.
Now zeros you have no control where you are
what you're doing or what's going on.
And your ability to navigate is literally by small motions
pushing off gently from a fixed object to propel you
in some direction.
And then at that point, you know, depending on your comfort
you're doing somersaults or back flips or just floating on
on air without feeling anything hanging upside
down's kind of fun.
It doesn't rush to your head.
You don't know what's up, down, right or left.
What was your, your takeaways?
- [Sam Chui] I was very nervous at the beginning
and I actually got butterfly in my stomach and you know
I wasn't sure what to expect, right?
I never done something in a zero gravity space.
And then when I got on board, I followed the instructions
and also wearing a wrist band to
this is anti motion sickness.
And when the first and second gravity exercise started
I just go with the flow
and I became better and better at everyone.
And I want more and more because it was so fun at the end.
I just don't want to stop because I can do back flipping.
I can do completely floating
and I ate a candy in the space as well.
It felt like I was in the shoes
of an astronaut for one day and I absolutely love it.
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