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- From: wjf@controls.ccd.harris.com (Bill Figie)
- Subject: Re: TOP GUN..the ride (RE: STAR TREK--The Ride)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.124152.12425@ccd.harris.com>
- Originator: wjf@rs2
- Sender: wjf@controls (Bill Figie)
- Organization: Harris Controls
- References: <43280025@hpcc01.corp.hp.com> <Bx4uw5.8w1@fc.hp.com> <1992Nov3.154435.22077@pmafire.inel.gov>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 12:41:52 GMT
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- Geoff writes:
- |>
- |> B&M is the manufacturer of the ride. ``Inverted looping'' is the
- |> two-word description of the ride. It's similar to a suspended
- |> coaster, except the cars are fixed, rather than free-swinging.
- |> My impression is that you trade the swinging of a suspended
- |> coaster for the ability to do what B&M calls a ``heart flip,''
- |> which is essentially a barrel roll. Also, your feet hang outside
- |> the coaster, like on a ski-area chair lift.
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- I was just cataloging another tape for my collection sent to me by a
- fellow ACEer this last weekend, and in it was the 3-2-1 Contact story
- showing Ron Toomer and Christopher explaining about how coasters work.
- It must be 8 years old by now. Anyways, in it they had a working
- model (1/10 scale I think) of an Arrow suspend coaster (swings freely)
- going through a inverted corkscrew. It worked on a model, but I am
- not sure why it couldn't be made to work full scale. Perhaps
- Christopher Toomer (if he is out there reading this) could shed some
- light on this subject. Is the whole reason it can't be done because
- it swings freely?
-
- Bill "just 2 more weeks" Figie
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