April 18, 2007

US & Canada | US | Las Vegas

G-Spot

By Tiffany Hawk

Perhaps the only instance when you'll want your plane to nosedive toward Earth — again and again and again.

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The new frontier in adventure tourism is a journey of weightless flight, now tailored for civilian fun in a tricked-out 727. For a mere $3,750, passengers on G-Force One can drop 8,000 feet over the desert and find out if what they ate in Vegas stays down. Before pulling back up and doing it all over again, and again and again (15 times), joyriders will enjoy 25 to 30 seconds of zero gravity — plenty of opportunity to fly the entire length of the padded cabin or perfect that mid-air somersault. Pre lift-off, participants train with a veteran astronaut. Should said astronaut be accused of attempted kidnapping or just visiting one of the area’s legalized brothels, they can count the Convention & Visitors Authority as a trusted confidant. The bureau’s Vegas Alibi Generator 2.0 will ply anyone with photos, ticket stubs and a bevy of well-researched excuses to make a trip to sin city ever more thrilling. But if it’s just the ecstasy of flight you’re after, Zero-G can take you for a ride starting Saturday.