This helped the teachers acclimate to the weightlessness of zero gravity felt on the last 12 parabolas.

CNN: Teachers take weightless ride to inspire students

Specially trained pilots took the plane into a series of parabolas, essentially a series of up-and-down curves.

CNN: Teachers take weightless ride to inspire students

Users can draw graphic shapes on top of images to study such phenomena as parabolas produced by water fountains and the curvature of antennas.

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Birds were given different colors, squawks and abilities such as extra density, acceleration and the power to lay explosive eggs in the air before winging off their parabolas from the counterforce of laying eggs.

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Membership will make it much easier for British scientists to propose experiments and to get access to facilities like a zero-G plane, which generates short periods of weightlessness by flying a series of parabolas in the sky.

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The plane flew 15 parabolas.

CNN: Teachers take weightless ride to inspire students