It's kind of an amazing coincidence that someone just happened to be filming the train with a handheld something from that vantage point when it happened.
Which is to say: I'm betting money it's fake.
I sit corrected! I forgot about the eclipse thing.
If you watched the POV with Tony (and other testing videos), it seems like this speed over the tophat is the new norm, and not a testing anomaly.
Promoter of fog.
That looks so thrilling, with a potential for negative gravity, but is it a good thing/bad thing? One of my favorite TTD moments (as the years went by) was when the launch would be just a tish slow allowing for a slower roll over the top. Nowhere at the park could you get a view from so high up, and the faster the trip the more fleeting that view would be.
I guess I’ll try to pay close attention on that vertical spike.
Slower trip over the tophat means slower third launch speed, which increases chances of rollbacks, which puts into play full launch backwards at 120+ mph, which puts leaving the tracks at top of spike into play, which means stopper is needed at top of spike. Park chose no spike with thrill of leaving tracks at top spike over extended view at top of tophat. Can't have everything (where would you put it). ;)
Manufacturer of the ballast bag, or the ride? I'm guessing the ride. In any case, thank goodness it came out on the top hat and not the spike, where it could've landed on someone.
Chris Baker
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Ride. It sounds like the manufacturer had not turned the ride over to CP Operations yet.
Sounds correct technically/legally in terms of who is in charge of the ride during this part of testing. But seems odd to me that Tony would assign blame in a public post where assigning blame wasn't really needed. Maybe the park is overly sensitive about the ride given history of it. May have had CF legal review his statement. Blaming the manufacturer seems like something a lawyer would add.
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