Suspended Swinging Coaster

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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)

Operating Modes

  • Continuous circuit mode

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.
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