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
Pre-built designs
RollerCoaster Tycoon
- 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)
RollerCoaster Tycoon 2
- 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 with cars that swing around curves. Vekoma and B&M presently build inverted roller coasters with inversions and cars that do not swing.
Photo Gallery
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Suspended Coaster in RCT2