So, at the end of August we left for Bordeaux and could pass the security controls without any problems worthy of mention. We were very well prepared indeed and had nearly an entire portable workshop with us. Other groups were grateful being able to make use of it in return for a “VTI Ieper” sticker on their experiment. In the meantime those stickers are internationally spread.

From the very first parabolic manoeuvre the experiment functioned successfully and we captured the data. So, fine-tuning and collecting as many data as possible was the message.

Because our experiment was working largely autonomously, we had a lot of time to experiment upon our own bodies in microgravity. This felt quite strange, but our stomachs were keeping quiet. Anyway, in the beginning, for a few…

Afterwards, we have been comparing the data which we had taken from our video and audio recordings, to the information of the accelerometers fixed in the plane. By amazing good fortune our experiment seems to operate very well even in those more difficult circumstances. Nevertheless, our results showed some fluctuations too, because we can’t really detach the accelerations in the other directions and the ZERO-G was not always zero, but sometimes negative too so that the water was making a lot of fluctuation movements and we ourselves were keeping on hanging at the ceiling.