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On Thursday March 17th, Chris Glos and David LeFrancois participated in a University of Texas Medical Branch led Commercial Spaceflight Passenger Training Study at The NASTAR Center. They experienced simulated suborbital spaceflights using NASTAR’s high-performance centrifuge-based simulator. This simulator generated high onset-offset, sustained acceleration (“G”) forces similar to those experienced in commercial spacecraft. Chris and David were trained on …

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Thursday March 17th, two of our pilots will be participating in a University of Texas Medical Branch led Commercial Spaceflight Passenger Training Study at The NASTAR Center. Our pilots will experience a simulated suborbital spaceflight at The NASTAR Center using its high-performance centrifuge-based simulator. This simulator is capable of generating high onset-offset, sustained acceleration (“G”) forces similar …

G-Force Research in the Centrifuge this Thursday ! Read More »

A great afternoon to spend at the airport ! We had a good view during lunch … then a preflight check of the Citabria … and out for a run over Lakefield and back to CYPQ … for a low and over to check out the crosswind …   then around the field for a landing and …

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The temperature in the morning was around -13 degrees C and so we used an electric heater to warm up the engine. To keep it exciting we switched seats today so the PIC was in the back ! We flew over a frozen Rice Lake and then off to Cobourg where we could see a …

Great day for winter flying ! Read More »

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