30- or 60-Minute Airplane Flight Tour for Up to Three People from Starlight Flight (Up to 34% Off)
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Tour participants can enjoy a bird’s-eye view of the Dallas area and famous landmarks including Texas Stadium, Reunion Tower, and Love Field
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G-Force: The Excitement of Acceleration
In the cockpit, both pilots and passengers experience a sensation known as g-forces. Read on to learn more about how gravity creates fun flights.
G-force: A measurement of acceleration felt as weight. Changes in velocity—speeding up, slowing down, or shifting direction—make pilots feel as if they’re being pressed down, thrown up, and tossed to the side. As a unit, 1 g is equivalent to the acceleration of gravity (about 32 f/s2). We experience 1 g constantly, as the floor pushes upward to prevent our bodies from accelerating toward the earth.
2.9 g: The typical g-force exerted by a sneeze. Another common example of g-force: someone slapping you on the back to congratulate you on a solid sneeze (4.1 g).
Microgravity: A term for the weightless environment experienced by astronauts. It’s not quite accurate to call it “zero g,” because even in space, gravity still causes astronauts to slowly accelerate towards Earth.
Vertical Force: The head-to-toe sensation of a g-force felt vertically along the body, as opposed to side to side or front to back. This is the most difficult g-force to deal with, because blood might rush to the brain, knocking it unconscious. For this reason, fighter pilots wear special anti-g suits, which have constrictive air bladders that keep blood from leaving the upper body and hitting the eject button.
The Fastest Man on Earth: Air Force physician John Stapp, according to Time magazine. In an effort to improve cockpit safety, Stapp built a rocket-powered sled to test how much g-force the human body could withstand. Despite losing dental fillings and breaking many bones, he experienced 46.2 g—far exceeding the 18 g thought to be the limit for pilots.
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About Starlight Flight
What services does your business offer and what makes your business stand out from the competition?
Starlight Flight is Dallas "original airplane tour company" flying people happy since 1991. We conduct customized 30 and 60 minute airplane tours of the DFW metroplex out of Addison Airport. Host to hundreds of in air marriage proposals and Christmas light flights and featured on all local news channels. No other local company has flown airplane tours as long as we have with a flawless safety record, come fly with us and see for yourself!
What was the inspiration to start or run this business?
Starlight Flight airplane tours was started in 1991 to compete with the local helicopter market and offer city tours at a fraction of the cost of a helicopter company. Thus providing residents an opportunity to see the city skyline and assorted attractions at a reasonable rate much why we fly hundreds of Dallas airplane tours each year. Now celebrating 26 years of local airplane tours no one comes close to our time in business flying local tour flights!
What do you love most about your job?
Best part about owning and flying for Starlight Flight are the incredible responses we get from our flying clients. The looks on their faces when they go see what we show them it is not like a commercial flight. We see many neat responses while proposals take place or romantic dates unfold or holiday light flights take place. We see great smiles on all of our clients faces when they get down. Just look at our photo gallery on our web site and see for yourself or better yet book today and come fly with us and see what people are smiling about!
What is the best reaction you've ever gotten from a customer?
I have had clients hug us when they get down some having such a good time. We can also allow one passenger to fly with us upfront hence fly the plane themselves! So when does the normal person get to go fly a plane over the city they live within! People love this option we offer it to enhance their experience and the reactions when down are great hope to show you soon.