The unbelievably mundane answer is "training pilots".

jmmv a day ago | parent | next [-]

The article goes through an unbelievably amount of fluff to just say that. Thanks for confirming my own read.

DylanSp a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

To be slightly more specific - training pilots that can train/certify other pilots.

rsynnott 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Huh, yes, I was expecting this to be keeping gate allocations or something else weird (there was a certain amount of that early in the pandemic).

xeonmc a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I mean, you can’t really practice barrel rolls with a planeful of passengers, can you?

There is probably a small market for people who would love to be passengers on that flight.

Barrel rolls, probably not.

You could fly in the "vomit comet" though and do 30 consecutive seconds of Zero-G.

	▲	bdunks a day ago \| parent [-]
		Tell that to Tex Johnson: https://youtu.be/Ra_khhzuFlE?si=MxkaSRaIYFvbGqil