The dynamics of parabolic flight: Flight characteristics and passenger percepts

Acta Astronautica

Volumn 63, Issue 5-6, 2008, Pages 594-602

  Karmali, Faisal ^a   Shelhamer, Mark ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Freefall; Gravity; Otolith; Parabolic flight; Weightlessness; Zero g

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; DYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTS; EXTRACTIVE METALLURGY; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; GRAVITATION; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; MECHANICS; PHYSICS; TRAJECTORIES;

AIRCRAFT PITCH; AIRCRAFT TRAJECTORIES; ASTRONAUT TRAINING; ELSEVIER (CO); EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FLIGHT EXPERIMENTS; PARABOLIC FLIGHTS; PARABOLIC TRAJECTORIES; SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES; VESTIBULAR SYSTEMS; ZERO GRAVITY;

AIRCRAFT;

EID: 46649110517     PISSN: 00945765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2008.04.009     Document Type: Article

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