The principle of the OG flight is to throw the plane in the air and make it believe it is in vacuum. Hello and

welcome to episode 180 of Avtoc. I am Ian Petchenck here as always with

Jason Ebeninewitz and Ian where are you?

Jason I am in Bordeaux France. Oh. Oh I'm in Brooklyn I have nothing interesting to say about that but what have you been doing?

Well sir what have I been doing okay so to start at the reason I'm sitting here in a hotel in

Bordeaux, France, I yesterday flew on the Nova Space Air Zero G A310 alongside the German aerospace research center for a set of 31

parabolic flights. And it was the most amazing experience I have ever had in the

air not even close to the next most amazing experience by far.

I don't hate you, but I hate you for doing this without me because it sounds and looks

from the videos I saw freaking amazing. It really is a special time and we've got a special show for you today.

Not only did I get to go on the flight which you can read about on our blog, I'll talk a little bit more about it in just a few seconds. But coming up in the show I was able to speak with Jean-Francis-Clévois, who is the chairman of Nova Space, the organization that runs the actual aircraft.

He is a fascinating, fascinating guy.

We scheduled about 15 minutes to chat and we ended up talking for nearly an hour.

Now, was this the conversation in which you divulged that bit of information about another

potential aircraft they had in mind or are we not even allowed to talk about that?

No, no, we talked in depth about that.

Ah, because I have not actually heard this yet.

Yeah.

But, well, Jason will never hear.

Jason will never hear, because she doesn't listen to a podcast.

I don't listen to podcast.

But this is, I might actually go back and listen to this segment because

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