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Airmen have fun with the low gravity environment created when descending fast and low to a landing into Baghdad.
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Joey, have you ever been to a Turkish prison?
Can anyone tell me what aircraft this is? Or anything else about what's going on here. The floor looks pretty level and I wouldn't have thought a winged aircraft could accelerate downward that fast unless it was in real trouble or steeply angled nose down. (I'm not calling fake I just want to know more).
I don't know about the type of aircraft, but I'd imagine it's a pretty ordinary military cargo plane of some sort. Winged aircraft can definitely dive fast enough to make you feel weightless (free fall), though you'll want a good pilot if you're going to do it.
In this case, they're making a rapid descent to land in Baghdad. I didn't realize they did them so steep they'd get the free-fall effect, but it makes sense.
NASA sports a plane explicitly for this purpose. Stephen Hawking even tried it.
*spacy
Winged aircraft can definitely dive fast enough to make you feel weightless (free fall), though you'll want a good pilot if you're going to do it.
The thing that confused me is that this isn't zero-g, merely reduced g's, and the forces still acting on the people relative to the plane seemed to be directed straight towards the floor, since they can both stand perpendicular to the floor and jump on the spot. Where as I thought in a steep dive if they jumped they would float towards the tail of the plane, but I must be thinking about the forces all wrong.
For low gravity they just stay slightly above the freefall trajectory.
It's all fun and games until someone looses an eye!
Then it's just games.
Can anyone tell me what aircraft this is? Or anything else about what's going on here. The floor looks pretty level and I wouldn't have thought a winged aircraft could accelerate downward that fast unless it was in real trouble or steeply angled nose down. (I'm not calling fake I just want to know more).
Reason they do it is to avoid enemy fire I think.
Clip of a so called "corkscrew landing" into Baghdad international here:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Corkscrewing-into-Baghdad-International-Airport
Not sure it is the same thing though.
Afterward, they all went into the cockpit and had sex with each other. Why? I do not know why. They just did. It's science.
Yeah, zero gravity does that to ya.