We flew a simulated 747 at NASA and didn’t crash or barf

Ars Technica » Scientific Method 2015-08-18

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—From a viewing spot in a high bay room at NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, I peer through a glass window at a cab that simulates the cockpit of a commercial aircraft. The 70-ton base of the Vertical Motion Simulator (VMS) moves the cab up and down like an amusement park ride.

“Are you guys thinking about flying?” Scott Reardon, the VMS facility manager, asks me and my co-worker Megan Geuss casually, as if we do this kind of thing every day.

There is only one answer to that question. Of course. We want to fly.

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