Suspended Swinging Coaster

Construction
Track has a tubular steel spine, connected to the inside edges of tubular steel running rails. Supports are large tubular steel posts. Trains hang underneath the track, swinging freely from a chassis held on by wheels above, below and outside the running rails.

Special Track Elements

 * Helix

Constraints

 * Maximum Track Slope - 60°
 * Maximum Lift Hill Slope - 25°
 * Maximum Height - 105 Feet

Vehicles

 * Suspended Swinging Cars
 * Suspended Swinging Airplane Cars
 * Suspended Swinging Floorless Cars (RCT2 And RCT3 only)
 * 1950's Rocket Ride
 * Football Ride
 * Gorilla Ride
 * Sloth Ride
 * Seaplane Ride

Operating Modes

 * Continuous circuit mode
 * Continuous block section mode

Build menu only

 * Flight of the Phoenix

Scenarios

 * Force Nine (Ivory Towers)
 * Cathexis (Adrenaline Heights)
 * Roller Coaster 4 (Volcania)
 * Roller Coaster 1 (Dragon's Cove)
 * Vampire (Megaworld Park)

Build menu only

 * Flight of the Phoenix
 * Hairyplanes
 * Pendulator
 * Pylon Peril
 * Regurgitator
 * Swither

Scenarios

 * Ninja (Six Flags Magic Mountain)
 * Suspended Swinging Coaster 1 (Renovation)

RollerCoaster Tycoon 3

 * High Flyer (Vanilla Hills)

Other Information
A good Suspended Roller Coaster requres plenty of curves and helixes to provide the high lateral G's required to swing the cars.

In Real Life

 * This was the first instance of the Inverted Roller Coasters now popular among many parks around the world. It was first introduced in the 1980's as a prototype built by Arrow Dynamics. The floorless model of the suspended coaster is made by Vekoma and is still being built today.