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Thank you. The pilots are flying in parabolas so that the acceleration will be equal to the gravitational acceleration and the weightlessness is felt for only a period of the parabola. So you're saying that in the time it takes to achive the terminal velocity they will feel weightless. But due...

Hi there. I very much enjoy this forum and have been doing so for a while. I have a problem and I am not sure of the explanation I came with. Suppose there is a plane that is nosediving perpendicular to Earth. What will the "passengers" feel? In the first seconds the acceleration will be equal...