Weightlessness in a Wind Tunnel

For the record, I have jumped out of a real plane from 10,000 feet off the ground. Is was an exhilarating (and frightening) experience that I am grateful to have checked of my bucket list at a younger age while naively trying to impress a boy with my fearless nature. But, now being older and hopefully a tad bit wiser, I wanted to experience weightlessness in an safe manner—in an indoor skydiving wind tunnel.

What is Indoor Skydiving?

Indoor skydiving is gaining popularity across the world as a recreational activity because it is a way to beat the forces of gravity in a glass enclosed chamber that has a vertical wind column that pumps air at 120 MPH. These chambers are called wind tunnels and they help in simulating an outdoor skydiving experience–without the need to jump out of a plane! Since air flows upwards inside the wind tunnel at a high speed, it enables you to fly and float mid-air in the chamber equipped with a safety net below.

Unlike outdoor…