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A good Suspended Roller Coaster requres plenty of curves and helixes to provide the high lateral G's required to swing the cars. |
A good Suspended Roller Coaster requres plenty of curves and helixes to provide the high lateral G's required to swing the cars. |
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*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. |
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Revision as of 04:00, 20 January 2011
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)
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.
- 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.