the guys without helmets on are HARDCORE.

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.

After laughter comes tears.

> Afterward, they all went into the cockpit

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).

We've done this in a Cessna, though you cannot float freely... but you can spin small objects freely. There is a clip on here of a dog floating around in a Cessna.

>> ^Ghostly:
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

Adding video to channels (Spacy) - requested by NetRunner.

>> ^NetRunner:
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.

Military/Spacy/Comedy - my favourite overlap.

When airplanes simulate zero G's the crafts themselves do not have to be falling down vertically, they just have to be in a freefall trajectory, like the trajectory of a cannonball. This means the zero gravity environment can actually start while the plane is still flying upwards.
For low gravity they just stay slightly above the freefall trajectory.

Thanks for reminding me... I should have known better. Too long since I did mechanics. I feel like a fool now.

I think on their last jump/fall, I definetly heard bones breaking...

Upvote for the guy trying to do the worm at 0:16.

It's nice to see that even in the middle of a military occupation of another country, Americans can still have a good time.

Everything is fun and games until someone loses their cookies.

well don't deny them some harmless diversion, likely they've seen and experienced enough awful shyt to last a lifetime.

It's all fun and games until someone looses an eye!

>> ^Hellian:
It's all fun and games until someone looses an eye!


Then it's just games.

>> ^Ghostly:
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.

>> ^blankfist:
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.