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- From: buck@cavlry.enet.dec.com
- Newsgroups: rec.roller-coaster
- Subject: Re: TOP GUN..the ride (RE: STAR TREK--The Ride)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.142759.6331@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 14:27:59 GMT
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- Bill "just 2 more weeks" Figie writes:
-
- >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?
-
- I had heard Arrow had this technology, but I guess my question
- is -- the THE BAT (ex-King's Island) defunct itself without
- loops, how would they manage corkscrews??
-
- Walter Bollinger was quoted as saying they've been thinking
- about this concept for a while, and not until they 'fixed'
- the car motion did they succeed in the design. I guess the
- factor of the cars being able to swing was a hurdle they
- couldn't quite work with safely.
-
-
- B.
-