Full subtitles are available if any of the audio's unclear - and pull down the description for links and FAQs. There'll be a behind-the-scenes video over on the Matt and Tom channel on Saturday if all goes well!
As a hard of hearing person, I appreciate the time and effort you put into making sure there are subtitles. Let me know if I can help with translating in any way!
Tom: "I want to do a video on zero-g" ESA "Sure here's some information on how it all works" Tom: "I was hoping I could just shoot myself talking about zero-g in zero-g" ESA: "K"
I have seen a couple of videos about it as well, but I actually didn't ever see anyone explaining the one pilot per axis thing. That shows how difficult that maneuver actually it.
The Russian and US planes likely do it differently. I seem to recall video of US pilots doing it "solo", at least as far as the pitch/roll are concerned. The US outsources it now...
This is the European Agency and the US planes/software doesn't fly in Europe. Hence they mention, they do not care about changing the plane because it is hard to Re-qualify it. This also means, the US planes for Zero G falls in some prospects compared to the European standards.
Is a swimming reflex you think? Or just trying to counter all the sudden pitch and yaw you're experiencing. I would accept that it is a swimming reflex but I actually think its something a little different.
Those bits from a pilot were really quite interesting, never knew they used 3 pilots for all 3 axis. Funny about them not changing the alarms on the plane because of certification.
Just needing someone to pay attention to make sure none of the alarms are "hey your engine is actually about to explode now" or that sorta thing, fun times
I'd love to see a more detailed look into the actual flight. This vid is the best so far, but I'm sure there are other things. For instance, how is the fuel flow managed so it's picking up fuel not air? Rockets don't run in zero G, they have a short burst of thrusters to settle the fuel and oxidizer onto the pickups.
gasdive it depends on the rocket actually. Ones designed for launching from the surface generally use the technique you mentioned if reignited in freefall, but there are other designs available for rockets designed to primarily work in microgravity.
gasdive If rockets don't work in zero-g, how did people get to the moon? The third stage of the Saturn-V reignited after spending a few hours in Earth orbit, to move the spacecraft from Earth orbit to a lunar approach trajectory.
At least two ways I know of, one is to give a short burst of your thrusters and 'push' the fuel to the back (push is in parathensis because your not really pushing it, your accelerating your craft forward, and the fuel lags behind and collects in the back) and the other is to shape your tank so the fuel gathers in the back due to surface tension.
I managed to get on the Fly Your Thesis Program for last years parabolic flights after watching this video. Best experience of my life! I just wish I could do it again.
ItzPicklez the definition of drive is to operate a vehicle, the definition of fly is to move through the air, if anything drive is more correct than fly
I got to ride on the NASA version back in the day after winning a science fair raffle. I lived very very close to Cape Canaveral, and back then NASA was heavily involved in public school projects in the area. It’s called the vomit comet for a reason. No matter how iron a stomach you have, the fluid jostling around in your inner ear is very hard to overcome. I didn’t get sick, but I felt incredibly uneasy by the time it was done. It was fun 95% of the time until the very end. Hard to explain how it feels. It’s like trying to describe a color to a blind person. We have no frame of reference for what no gravity feels like. It kind of feels like jumping off a bridge, but not. You bump into something and just move in the opposite direction without effort. Very odd feeling.
I am so so unbelievably jealous of everyone who's been able to go on one of those. I wish it was easier for an everyday person to do cause it looks so fun
Yesterday, I've been on one of Novespace's public flights and it absolutely blew me away. I was so happy and full of joy that I almost burst into tears afterwards. One of the defining experiences in my life at the moment. And you really can't compare it to anything else. Interestingly it was the moon gravity parabolas and the hypergravity that sticks with me most in my memory because you can relate it to other experiences...you have a point of reference. But the feeling of true weightlessness is so unlike anything else you can experience on earth, that I have to actively recall the feeling just go come close to remembering it.
That is amazing that three people can work together like that to control each axis of the plane. I have to imagine that would be like driving a car with one person steering, one on the gas, and one on the brake.
Tom Scott I'm guessing that was totally unintentional? I got a kick out of it too (heh), but then it dawned on me that the only other time your brain knows you've "floated" is in the water…which would explain the flailing…that, or your subconscious is wigging out that the floor "disappeared" 😂
Oh, yeah I had always thought that those planes alternated between "climb really fast" and "fall like a stone", but of course that doesn't make any sense from an aerodynamics and control point of view. So instead it's "pretend you're a rock that was just thrown" and "catch yourself and wind up for the next throw". Cool :-)
That last thump looks like it hurt - ngl just watched this twice already because I always wondered about this + I am impressed that you were able to stick to explaining while experiencing all of that, hah (nice insertion of the 'how about that?' recording)
I was going to say the same thing, I've already seen the zero-g videos by Veritassium and PhysicsGirl and Simon Giertz. I was surprised that I learned something new here (like 1 pilot per axis!).
You are so very good at this. I was half way waiting for you to get sick during one of those takes. You kept it together and made it look like loads of fun! Great job and thanks for the information on how all of this was done. I also loved the cockpit shots. Very cool!!! Also. hats off to your camera operator!! Great work!!
Why is this the best video you have done? Not just the normal education, but you were a bit too excited and enjoying it a bit too much. Nice to see you being wide-eyed for a change and whilst knowing, not really knowing how it would exactly feel, so you smile automatically. And thanks for all of your other videos.
Hey, Vsauce! Michael here. When the Apollo astronauts went to the moon, they tested Galileo's prediction that without any air to get in the way, a hammer and a feather would fall... [pause for dramatic effect while video plays] at exactly the same speed. It was weird. Almost... PARANORMAL. A PARAbola is a mathematical equation to describe an object in freefall, like a hammer, a feather, or a plane. [pause] THIS plane, to be exact. [image of the Zero-G plane]. [cut to Michael in plane] I'm currently sitting in the European Space Agency's Zero-G plane, about to experience zero gravity! [raises eyebrows] But HOW do you experience zero gravity... while you're still on Earth? [silly face] I mean, no matter what kind of plane we're in or which direction we're travelling, we're still bound by Earth's gravity, right? [serious face] Wrong. [Long ramble about Einstein and gravity]. The fact is, we only FEEL gravity if there's something stopping us from falling, and right now... [plane starts to enter freefall] there's about to be nothing. And as always, thanks for watching.
Not strictly speaking true, though. While the lunar atmosphere is so thin that it's basically negligible, it does still have an atmosphere, which means it does still have air resistance.
When I was a pilot, I flew a zero G maneuver in a small plane. At a maximum speed of 140 kts, I could only get 10-15 seconds of weightlessness, but it was enough to get the experience. It's a lot of fun!
On an ESA research flight like this one, you get offered scopolamine, a powerful (and intravenous) anti-emetic drug. Not everyone got away with it, but it helped a lot!
With my relatively mundane GA airplane, I was able to give my 4 kids ca. 15 seconds of zero G experience at a time! It was fun to see them floating in mid-air. Sure, with an airliner, you get up to 1 mn worth of it! But the additional second is bloody expensive!
I have to ask knowing full well this may never be answered, just HOW did you manage to film that, set aside the difficulties such as holding the camera steady and all the other details, a zero-g flight like this has got to be really expensive and not in your control how long you're up there, so I assume you had a very limited amount of takes. all in all impressive.
One thing I didn't get was why they need one pilot per axis... Even during normal flights, maneuvers like descents are performed while keeping the aircraft as stable as possible in the other two axes. A longer, more detailed/step-by-step of what the pilots do would be incredibly insightful. The guy who manages pitch basically has to go level at safe altitude, then pull back hard, wait for the aircraft to reach the apex ( an altitude and airspeed indication gives this) and then push the stick hard forward. Fighter pilots pull greater Gs and have higher workloads. But this is my ignorance speaking, so if you can explain why One Pilot per Axis is needed, I'd be grateful.
I'm willing to bet that an A320, A330, A340 or A350 could just do this whole maneuvre on its autopilot, but this is an A310, which is slightly less advanced...
+Akshay Anand - I think you're right in saying that fighter pilots pull greater G-forces and have higher workloads, but it is worth remembering that an airliner is a big, heavy, lumbering beast; it's a lot more difficult to pull off precise maneuvres with something weighing (ironically) 80 tonnes than it is to do that with a jet fighter. I imagine that's why they want to have two pilots, to have one completely focus on getting his massive airplane to precisely follow a parabola.
If you push stick forward, you get negative Gs, keeping exactly 0 Gs is hard, also you have to adjust thrust to keep forward speed just right for exactly 0 Gs, it’s too hard to coordinate perfectly for one pilot.
@@LostieTrekieTechie The flailing is the swimming reflex, your body thinks you're swimming because of the similarities and goes "hey, let's move by flailing about, good idea" and it happens.
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As a hard of hearing person, I appreciate the time and effort you put into making sure there are subtitles. Let me know if I can help with translating in any way!
There is a sound of the hammer hitting the ground on "the moon"!
Is available for people in canada/us?
Sean I always love how much effort Tom puts into his accessability options.
Of COURSE Tom would have a monologue during zero gravity. Pretty great.
Nick Klein the man is a one take wonder.
yea but no one can beat lindybeige, tom at least edits his videos lindy just doesn't.
Might not have been there are more ups and downs then was shown. Also tom usually mentions if it was one shoot.
Well he's a linguistic undergrad so he's got experience for once
Go big or go home
Bloody hell Tom!
My exact reaction seeing this in my sub feed...
I was wondering where Matt's comment about wanting to do this would be.
WOOT SCIENCE
Matt Gray Ding!
Yeah no surprise the space nerd is a teensy bit jealous!? ;-)
I'm just happy that you were able to experience this, it seems so awesome!
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My favorite part: when Tom says "I got it, we're good" and Neil grimaces because he knows what's about to happen...
I got it!
*BAM*
I don't got it.
5 years later I'm still looking for the grimace.
1:05 the yellow sun visor makes it look like they are flying over the sun.
or into hell
true
Haha, yeah, it's just slightly too dark in the flight deck.
Reminded me of scene from Independence Day where the helicopter gets blown up by aliens.
That demonstrate that earth is flat xd
Neil looks like a chap who's always got your back. Even outside of a zero-g environment.
I've got it, I've got it..
Splat
Ow
Haha
oof
Splat..........
whats that?
😂
XD
Tom: "I want to do a video on zero-g"
ESA "Sure here's some information on how it all works"
Tom: "I was hoping I could just shoot myself talking about zero-g in zero-g"
ESA: "K"
@Willow Hawley do you need 3 years to make a sandwich?
@@yayeetmeoffacliff4708 you cant rush making a sandwich
@Willow Hawley is it good :)
Ive seen dozens of similar videos and know very well how the plane works, but i still clicked just to see Tom turn into a giddy school child.
I have seen a couple of videos about it as well, but I actually didn't ever see anyone explaining the one pilot per axis thing. That shows how difficult that maneuver actually it.
The videos I've seen were about NASA's equivalent so maybe they don't use the 3 pilot system?
The Russian and US planes likely do it differently. I seem to recall video of US pilots doing it "solo", at least as far as the pitch/roll are concerned. The US outsources it now...
This is the European Agency and the US planes/software doesn't fly in Europe. Hence they mention, they do not care about changing the plane because it is hard to Re-qualify it. This also means, the US planes for Zero G falls in some prospects compared to the European standards.
And instead you saw him turn into a cat in 0g.
He's kicking so much because of the swimming reflex that most of you'll have if suddenly put in zero G. Even mice and other animals do that.
I guess.
AISYS Videos it's the same thing that people do when free falling.. because you technically are.
Is a swimming reflex you think? Or just trying to counter all the sudden pitch and yaw you're experiencing.
I would accept that it is a swimming reflex but I actually think its something a little different.
I cant swim will I do the swim reflex if I do this?
@@bentton7311 a reflex will work as long as you're a homo sapien. You're a homo sapien, right?
Is this the same reason that dogs do that mid-air paddle thing when you hold them above water?
Those bits from a pilot were really quite interesting, never knew they used 3 pilots for all 3 axis. Funny about them not changing the alarms on the plane because of certification.
Just needing someone to pay attention to make sure none of the alarms are "hey your engine is actually about to explode now" or that sorta thing, fun times
I'd love to see a more detailed look into the actual flight. This vid is the best so far, but I'm sure there are other things. For instance, how is the fuel flow managed so it's picking up fuel not air? Rockets don't run in zero G, they have a short burst of thrusters to settle the fuel and oxidizer onto the pickups.
gasdive it depends on the rocket actually. Ones designed for launching from the surface generally use the technique you mentioned if reignited in freefall, but there are other designs available for rockets designed to primarily work in microgravity.
gasdive If rockets don't work in zero-g, how did people get to the moon? The third stage of the Saturn-V reignited after spending a few hours in Earth orbit, to move the spacecraft from Earth orbit to a lunar approach trajectory.
At least two ways I know of, one is to give a short burst of your thrusters and 'push' the fuel to the back (push is in parathensis because your not really pushing it, your accelerating your craft forward, and the fuel lags behind and collects in the back) and the other is to shape your tank so the fuel gathers in the back due to surface tension.
I managed to get on the Fly Your Thesis Program for last years parabolic flights after watching this video. Best experience of my life! I just wish I could do it again.
I just realised how extremely accurately the pilots have to drive the plane in order to achieve this.
Yiming Mao fly this plane not drive but yea
*lovers*
ItzPicklez the definition of drive is to operate a vehicle, the definition of fly is to move through the air, if anything drive is more correct than fly
Pilots pilot planes not drive them
@@blademasta3650 a pilot pilots a plane.
I got to ride on the NASA version back in the day after winning a science fair raffle. I lived very very close to Cape Canaveral, and back then NASA was heavily involved in public school projects in the area.
It’s called the vomit comet for a reason. No matter how iron a stomach you have, the fluid jostling around in your inner ear is very hard to overcome. I didn’t get sick, but I felt incredibly uneasy by the time it was done.
It was fun 95% of the time until the very end.
Hard to explain how it feels. It’s like trying to describe a color to a blind person. We have no frame of reference for what no gravity feels like. It kind of feels like jumping off a bridge, but not. You bump into something and just move in the opposite direction without effort. Very odd feeling.
Okay
I am so so unbelievably jealous of everyone who's been able to go on one of those.
I wish it was easier for an everyday person to do cause it looks so fun
It's very easy, just expensive.
Bacon CheeseCake
Yea, well considering I don't have much money it makes it not easy.
If I had a lot more money I would do it.
How much does it cost?
starts at $6,000
+Loryhoof - Dollars? This is ESA we're talking about, surely that's €6000...
Yesterday, I've been on one of Novespace's public flights and it absolutely blew me away. I was so happy and full of joy that I almost burst into tears afterwards.
One of the defining experiences in my life at the moment. And you really can't compare it to anything else.
Interestingly it was the moon gravity parabolas and the hypergravity that sticks with me most in my memory because you can relate it to other experiences...you have a point of reference.
But the feeling of true weightlessness is so unlike anything else you can experience on earth, that I have to actively recall the feeling just go come close to remembering it.
"This doesn't seem like a very good idea guys"
I think they should change the alarms to actually say that.
Awesome video Tom!
Good point. The last thing you want in an emergency is alarms and klaxons blaring at you & making you panicky.
"Guys.... G-guys! This pitch will stall it! What're you doing?!"
That is amazing that three people can work together like that to control each axis of the plane. I have to imagine that would be like driving a car with one person steering, one on the gas, and one on the brake.
Sheer focus combined with the right experience/personal ability. Cream of the crop
and loads more space to work in.
Tonight on top gear
Sorry, but i laughed out loud at your flailing, i'm sure i'd do the same but still looks hilarious
That's entirely fair. The footage from the first, not-so-successful attempt at the script will be on the Park Bench soon...
Tom Scott oh my lord I can't wait
Tom Scott I'm guessing that was totally unintentional?
I got a kick out of it too (heh), but then it dawned on me that the only other time your brain knows you've "floated" is in the water…which would explain the flailing…that, or your subconscious is wigging out that the floor "disappeared" 😂
It was like watching a cat in 0g.
NaleshSA or watching him do the grab a branch maneuver from sky diving, which they should the fear park bench.
Congrats on 1 million subscribers! It was long overdue and very well deserved!
If to judge by other youtubers, the next million should arrive much faster.
4.21 million!
6.17 million now
Oh, yeah I had always thought that those planes alternated between "climb really fast" and "fall like a stone", but of course that doesn't make any sense from an aerodynamics and control point of view. So instead it's "pretend you're a rock that was just thrown" and "catch yourself and wind up for the next throw". Cool :-)
I like the way you summarized it, helped me put it all in perspective. So thanks!
that was a very smart way to put it marie thank you!
How have i only just found Tom! These video are amazing!
The mysterious RUclips algorithm also made him pop up in my homepage only last week. But I'm glad it did!
You found Thomas the train?
That last thump looks like it hurt - ngl just watched this twice already because I always wondered about this + I am impressed that you were able to stick to explaining while experiencing all of that, hah (nice insertion of the 'how about that?' recording)
in the plums!
Hi there, can you please tell me how you got verified? :) Was it through Google plus?
The feather and the hammer hit the ground at the same time HOW BOW DAH?
Worse... pubic bone smacking into the floor... the bone you never knew existed until you bang it on the bottom of a swimming pool...
Vivienne Gucwa how are you verified?
Can we just take a moment to appreciate how polite and nice Tom is to the guy holding him during Zero-G
Interesting video as usual, Tom. Also, thank you, Neal, for keeping the flailing Tom safe.
Tom: giggling like a child
Neil: "*sigh* kid nowdays"
Thanks for sharing this Tom - you're enthusiasm is contagious!
Q: What degree do you have?
A: Theoretical Maths
Q: What's your job?
A: Pilot
Q: um...
This Week on the bench: Matt to Tom: "Why is it always you that's doing cool stuff?"
"My name's on the channel."
Tom: Because you have a job, so suck it up :D
actually happened
"I'm a science educator," thought Tom, as he floated through the air.
Awesome!! Great explanation Tom, I learned something new despite having seen videos from other RUclipsrs on this topic :D
I was going to say the same thing, I've already seen the zero-g videos by Veritassium and PhysicsGirl and Simon Giertz. I was surprised that I learned something new here (like 1 pilot per axis!).
3:58
"I got it, I got it, we're good."
Pause...
"OOOPH"
This is the same concept that you talked about at the Bremen drop tower. Cool to see it where people can experience extended 0-G as well.
I love how tom goes for explaining it as he is doing it. it makes it hard to follow and watch and the same time, but its great to watch. great video
You are so very good at this. I was half way waiting for you to get sick during one of those takes. You kept it together and made it look like loads of fun! Great job and thanks for the information on how all of this was done. I also loved the cockpit shots. Very cool!!! Also. hats off to your camera operator!! Great work!!
I love how they just let the software think this is an ordinary passenger airliner being flown by an absolute maniac.
I love how it is considered on most of RUclips, that if Tom Scott doesn't understand it, it must be very complicated. Keep up the good work!
I'm actually quite happy you were able to get on a 0G flight. And in fact it's something that's crossed my mind for you to do every now and than.
Didn't they have any red jumpsuits?
The last guy to wear one got shot up into space and forced to watch bad movies.
And the guy before him got eaten by a space monster.
Then I guess he doesn't need it anymore
DrDraescher bad things happen to red shirts on away missions
I knew something was off.
The guy holding tom must be having fun seeing a guy narrating himself freaking out while explaing wtf's going on
You’re getting really good that that green screen stuff.
I was expecting some commenters going *”OH IT’S NOT A GREEN SCREEN YOU IDIOT”* but apparently miracles can happen.
Oh all right, invisi.
OH IT’S NOT A GREEN SCREEN YOU IDIOT.
Are you happy, now? You people are so demanding. 😂😂
I mean... Two comments out of four are hidden, so o.o'
Ooh, really? There are hidden comments? How can you tell?
"view all 6 replies" (7 now), only 4 show up.
I absolutely love that you included technical info on the piloting!
Shout out to Neil everyone
Why is this the best video you have done?
Not just the normal education, but you were a bit too excited and enjoying it a bit too much. Nice to see you being wide-eyed for a change and whilst knowing, not really knowing how it would exactly feel, so you smile automatically.
And thanks for all of your other videos.
Hey, Vsauce! Michael here. When the Apollo astronauts went to the moon, they tested Galileo's prediction that without any air to get in the way, a hammer and a feather would fall... [pause for dramatic effect while video plays] at exactly the same speed. It was weird. Almost... PARANORMAL. A PARAbola is a mathematical equation to describe an object in freefall, like a hammer, a feather, or a plane. [pause] THIS plane, to be exact. [image of the Zero-G plane]. [cut to Michael in plane] I'm currently sitting in the European Space Agency's Zero-G plane, about to experience zero gravity! [raises eyebrows] But HOW do you experience zero gravity... while you're still on Earth? [silly face] I mean, no matter what kind of plane we're in or which direction we're travelling, we're still bound by Earth's gravity, right? [serious face] Wrong. [Long ramble about Einstein and gravity]. The fact is, we only FEEL gravity if there's something stopping us from falling, and right now... [plane starts to enter freefall] there's about to be nothing. And as always, thanks for watching.
Not strictly speaking true, though. While the lunar atmosphere is so thin that it's basically negligible, it does still have an atmosphere, which means it does still have air resistance.
Ridiculously underrated comment.
I can hear him in my head saying this......
Posting the script from another video, good job
This deserves 1k likes
When I was a pilot, I flew a zero G maneuver in a small plane. At a maximum speed of 140 kts, I could only get 10-15 seconds of weightlessness, but it was enough to get the experience.
It's a lot of fun!
Thank you Neil.
You're welcome.
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Tom Scott: I'll steal your whole identity around planes
0:59 looks like they are flying into hell
or to the sun
It looks like the bit in Independence Day where the AWACS flies into the fireball.
So it's literally just 2-D kinematics. The trajectory 'throws you' with an initial velocity causing the parabolic curve of free fall. Incredible.
Very well done Scotty 'ol Tom!! I know that was a tricky bit of floating and you held it together splendidly.
I told my dad that zero-G is not just experienced because you fall, and you still go up for half of the zero g, but he didn't believe me :(
CondemnUntruth take him on a roller coaster! You can feel yourself lifting out of the seat on the tops of the big hills
Superb video Tom!!! Thanks for the graph and the G Meter reading!
Only Tom would teach a science lesson while flying around inside a free falling aircraft
Your positivity is very contagious. )
Tl;dw: they work by propelling undigested food from the passenger’s stomach into its surroundings
Calin Cristian that's why they're called pourabolas.
Ah yes, the wonderful Vomit Comet.
On an ESA research flight like this one, you get offered scopolamine, a powerful (and intravenous) anti-emetic drug. Not everyone got away with it, but it helped a lot!
"Every digestive action has an equal and opposite reaction."
Giffreind, "Vomit Comet" is the unofficial nickname of the planes flown by NASA's Reduced Gravity program, not the European Space Agency.
Great stuff as per usual Tom! Keep doing what you're doing :)
The pilots looks like they are controlling a AT-AT
I like when you still explaining and didn't drown in excitement. Thankyou
With my relatively mundane GA airplane, I was able to give my 4 kids ca. 15 seconds of zero G experience at a time! It was fun to see them floating in mid-air. Sure, with an airliner, you get up to 1 mn worth of it! But the additional second is bloody expensive!
While flying sled dogs in Alaska they sometimes start fighting with one another in a 206. Give the zero G experience and they settle down fast.
I just found your channel today and you're Awesome! I hope your channel gets all the recognition for it's brilliance
"I got it, we're good"
>immediately slams crotch into floor
3:30 The alarm you dont want to hear in a real flight:
"Terrain" - "Pull up!"
3:49
He's having so much fun
That's so fascinating! I would love to try that myself!
So how many zero g flights has Neil been on? He seems pretty immune to it all...
607 parabolas and counting ;-)
Da Hai Zhu I saw one time he had his feet underneath straps and another time he was stabilizing himself using a handle grip on the wall.
@@NeilMelvilleKenney NEIL YOURE HERE
@@NeilMelvilleKenney nice :))
Still counting, a few years on. 1622 now. It's a tough job, but someone has to do it... :-D
What a once in a lifetime experience, amazing!
I just realized that it is really hard to get control in 0G and it seems to take quite a lot of training to master the skill set!
Very excellent presentation, Tom!
This video is secretly called 'How Tom managed to get to experience a zero G flight' isn't it?
Nothing heals my soul more than a happy Tom in the thumbnail.
Neil looks silently content with his role in this flight but at the same time extremely uncomfortable with everything that is going on.
Contempt? Or content
@@CamoflaugeDinosaue 3 AM Spelling moment
Neil was having a hell of a time in this video.
Hear that? Thats the sound of my sleep patterns shifting.
You know you don't have to watch videos the moment they're put up, right? It's not TV...
CrazyCashGaming that's a very good point.
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I don't know what else to say.
The Great Snekko I'm seeing Nichijou enthusiasts everywhere, all of a sudden.
Endothermia yeah, same. For some reason they’re everywhere I go too.
Stunning shots from inside the cockpit.
0:01 Me during a school assembly waiting for the assembly to end so I can go to break
another stellar video Tom!
UPSIDE DOWN AND INSIDE OUT AND YOU CAN FEEL IT
Amazing! I'm so excited that you got to do this! A little jealous, but mainly excited!
"What do they mean it can't go past 2gs?"
"YEAH THIS IS AWESOME WOOO"
"oh I think we need those"
The what?"
"The wings."
the elastic band on that pilot's console snaps and you start freefalling a little too free
I have to ask knowing full well this may never be answered, just HOW did you manage to film that, set aside the difficulties such as holding the camera steady and all the other details, a zero-g flight like this has got to be really expensive and not in your control how long you're up there, so I assume you had a very limited amount of takes.
all in all impressive.
what a cool experience Tom! Thanks for sharing this and the link for thesis students who are interested as well! Cheers from PEI Canada, Bryan
One thing I didn't get was why they need one pilot per axis... Even during normal flights, maneuvers like descents are performed while keeping the aircraft as stable as possible in the other two axes. A longer, more detailed/step-by-step of what the pilots do would be incredibly insightful.
The guy who manages pitch basically has to go level at safe altitude, then pull back hard, wait for the aircraft to reach the apex ( an altitude and airspeed indication gives this) and then push the stick hard forward. Fighter pilots pull greater Gs and have higher workloads. But this is my ignorance speaking, so if you can explain why One Pilot per Axis is needed, I'd be grateful.
I'm willing to bet that an A320, A330, A340 or A350 could just do this whole maneuvre on its autopilot, but this is an A310, which is slightly less advanced...
Robert Faber maybe, but is that it? I'm not sure. I think there's a couple of other factors here, but I can't figure out what.
+Akshay Anand - I think you're right in saying that fighter pilots pull greater G-forces and have higher workloads, but it is worth remembering that an airliner is a big, heavy, lumbering beast; it's a lot more difficult to pull off precise maneuvres with something weighing (ironically) 80 tonnes than it is to do that with a jet fighter. I imagine that's why they want to have two pilots, to have one completely focus on getting his massive airplane to precisely follow a parabola.
Robert Faber you might be right. But I was hoping for some more explanation that's all.
If you push stick forward, you get negative Gs, keeping exactly 0 Gs is hard, also you have to adjust thrust to keep forward speed just right for exactly 0 Gs, it’s too hard to coordinate perfectly for one pilot.
This video made me so happy, Tom looks like he's having so much fun in zero g. I hope he didn't feel too nauseous at any point off camera
I just noticed he’s still wearing that red t-shirt
Tom's not in the net for his safety, he's in the net for everyone else's safety
I did one of these flights with Roscosmos a couple of years back. Would be interested to compare experiences sometime!
I like that you sound calm when flailing about
Confirmed: Zero-G turns Tom Scott into a startled cat.
Tom Scott, you have some amazing videos. Having fun at work!
I can't figure out if this fella is old or young
Tom was old when this world was young.
He's 35
Slightly jealous as this is one of the things i would love to experience
How did this go over with the not liking the feeling of falling?
Palwador Simms well, you saw the flailing.
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I bet context matters a lot here. These planes don't have windows, so you can't see that you're rushing toward the ground.
Sure, but I remember he talking about the feeling of falling. Maybe it was the sudden drop, and the drop in the comet isnt that bad.
@@LostieTrekieTechie The flailing is the swimming reflex, your body thinks you're swimming because of the similarities and goes "hey, let's move by flailing about, good idea" and it happens.
that looks like SO MUCH FUN!!!!
Those guys seem really nice
*+Scottish Baconator* Well, scientists tend to be nice, because statistically, the more knowledge a person and society has, the more peaceful and nice they tend to be.
In fact, you will find that modern day European countries that are part of the EU are statistically some of the most peaceful and nice countries on Earth in the northern hemisphere.
In the southern hemisphere, that would be the continent of Antarctica, followed by the continent of Australia and New Zealand.
How could you be in a bad mood if this is your job?
Saw a live stream once without script and editing. The dude is a lot less nice than you would think. Came across as pretty arrogant.
Jan Fetzer He meant the crew on the plane.
Scottish Baconator yeee
It's amazing how you manage to talk in these conditions
What are the requirements to fly on this? My dream is to go to space, but zero g is close enough...
Augusto Figueroa £6000 and good health
Good thing I'm young, I can save money for a few decades.
Decades? Do you work in a sweat shop in the south east Asia?
I'm in college in south america, so, kind of?
This thread: privilege in action.
Keep it nice guys.
Very cool to see how this works and seems like you had a lot of fun!