Most experiments are designed to produce a result within the working life of the person running them. This one was not, though its creator does not appear to have realized that at the time. In 1927, ...

This ‘Zero-G’ Airbus A300 parked on the tarmac at Bordeaux-Mérignac Airport is really a laboratory with wings. Within a week a dozen scientific teams will be aboard it as it thrusts skyward, then free ...