Suspended Swinging Coaster
Description
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.
Construction
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.