Airbus A300 Zero-G

The aircraft that will take us into weightlessness is a great big plane called the A300 Zero-G. It is one of the very first Airbus A300 passenger planes - it was originally built as a test aircraft. It has never been certified for passenger flight, so each flight is considered a test flight. The photo shows the A300 Zero-G just before the "injection" phase where the Earth's gravity is nullified by the parabolic trajectory of the plane.