Patriot Goes Vertical!

Yeah...that ranks up there with the fact that we didn't go to a bowl game for the first time in 30+ years last season...could history be repeating itself???

Back to PAT, as I was looking at the flyer they sent out for season passes, I noticed that the cobra roll seems like it's at the top of a long incline. I hadn't noticed that in other Beemers.

Now, to prevent confusion, what I mean is that it seems to me that the cobra rolls tend to be at more of a straight-on angle, not a hill up to it.

Am I missing them, am I on to something, or, has the loss of all my Nebraska blood causing me to be delirious?

(edit was due to me actually thinking 'prevent', but typing 'cause', which actually did cause confusion) *** Edited 11/6/2005 8:49:47 PM UTC by SVLFever***

There isn't a cobra roll on Patriot...

Isn't the cobra roll the 'inline twist' move???

Cobra roll: http://www.rcdb.com/ig277.htm?picture=9

Inline twist: http://www.rcdb.com/ig735.htm?picture=18

-Nate

Yeah what he said ^. Also last season NU broke a streak of 35 straight consecutive bowl appearances. BRING BACK THE REAL COACH -- if you can get him away from Ohio that is. ;)

LoL SOlich Solich Solich!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry for the confusion everyone...I thought the Cobra Roll was known as a Boomerang...my bad!

So...does the inline twist seem like it has more of a hill approaching it?

I don't think they could get Frank to come back...ever....just based on pride alone. I hear Bob Uecker is available.... ;)

Basically the inline twist (or maybe 0G-Roll, as inline twists also come in other flavours such as Thorpe Parks Colossus) is something comparable to an airtime hill, with the train flipping upside down on the apex.
To experience 0 vertical Gs, the rider's bodies must have an approximately parabolic trajectory.
Unlike a corkscrew inversion, there are idealy no vertical Gs generated by the lateral velocity of the twisting motion.

On inverted coasters this causes the hill that the rail shapes to have a sort of "dent" on the top, as a portion of the vertical size of the train has to be subtracted from the parabolic curve, almost making it look like a straight piece of track.
I guess that is one reason why inverted inline-twists are looking so flat sometimes.

But there are flat airtime hills on Hypercoasters as well -
the flattest one has to be the hill after the second drop of SFMM Goliath. (Is there actually any airtime on there?)

http://www.casabrian.com/images/medium/2002/socal/02-sfmm/goliath/CRW_2071_med.jpg

http://www.casabrian.com/images/medium/2002/socal/02-sfmm/goliath/CRW_2180_med.jpg

(the first pic shows just how incredibly flat that hill actually is) *** Edited 11/7/2005 7:57:13 PM UTC by superman***

^Ohh yess, lots of air there.

Good Ole Bob lol.

I just hope they are done with the inline twist when I go down there this next Saturday so I can take me some Pictures of it.

The second hills on Goliath (MM) and Titan are both huge floater hills. Out of your seat the whole way through.

...and after that, it's Attack of the Killer +G's Ugh...

I like those helices....a LOT.

But as far as enthusiasts in general are concerned, they're not overly popular...shoulda had more airtime hills, at least on Goliath, SFoT *has* other places to get airtime...

^SHOCK WAVE!

If you love +G's, Titan is your coaster! I had ridden Goliath prior, but Titan really caught me off guard.

Titan is the better of the two, but oh look at that this thread is about Patriot...

They are currently working A LOT on the station and thus why the webcam is currently focused on that area.

So how 'bout that Titan? ;)
Yeah, it's nice to see Patriot coming along. Looking very forward to this one. Hopefully it will help out WoF in a big way.

This thread WAS about Patriot...that was SIX(!) pages ago.

Midwesterners sure are *frugal* about starting threads... ;)

LOL! :)

P.S. Titan was the only non-Intamin non-looping coaster in my GT ballot...until I got PR... ;)

*** Edited 11/8/2005 4:38:07 AM UTC by rollergator***

Bill are you going to come to the ACE event at WOF next season? :)

ERT on Patriot and Mamba + ZardaQ for lunch = yummie!!! ;)

Magic 8-ball says "Try again later"... ;)

But KC BBQ is a definite plus.... :)

This is still about Patriot not just 6 pages ago LoL

I just posted some pics I took 2 years ago at SFStl and pictures I took last year at Adventureland, Ia on

http://360.yahoo.com/tonyblackjack2004

I didn't notice what they have done on the station when I looked at the webcam earlier. Is it even noticable yet?