Australia just flew its own 'vomit comet'. It's a big deal for zero-gravity space research

  • Written by: Gail Iles, Senior Lecturer in Physics, RMIT University
Australia just flew its own 'vomit comet'. It's a big deal for zero-gravity space researchSteve Gale (pilot) and Gail Iles (right) next to the Marchetti jet.Kieran Blair, Author provided

Last Saturday, a two-seater SIAI-Marchetti S.211 jet took off from Essendon Fields Airport in Melbourne with an expert aerobatic pilot at the controls and a case full of scientific experiments in the passenger seat.

Pilot Steve Gale took the jet on...

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