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1930 Fleet, two-seat biplane

Voisin-Farman I biplane

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Sir Francis Chichester

Sir Francis Chichester

British adventurer

Farman, Henri

Henri Farman

French aircraft manufacturer

Maurice Farman, 1909

Maurice Farman

French aircraft designer and manufacturer

NASA's Reduced Gravity Program provides the unique weightless or zero-G environment of space flight for testing and training of human and hardware reactions. NASA used the turbojet KC-135A to run these parabolic flights from 1963 to 2004.

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