B&M Drops

I actually have the heights from the press release that I found yesterday, I just wanted to compare them to the memory of the person who heard the shouter, to see if they could offer any other heights...

Heights -
Drop: 208
Hammerhead: 159
Hill: 144
Turn: 128

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Mike77 said:
There are several reasons that B&M does this. The technical reasons are to prevent stress on the chains and anit-rollbacks. The reason its done on a lot of inverts and other coasters is to add excitement and the predrop turns are to conserve space.

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We had already hashed this out many times, but it was pretty apparent at the end of the last discussion that chain stress is non-existant. The dogs and anti-rollbacks are also probably not an issue.

One thing I did think of since the last time we had this discussion is that if the train drops straight off the lift (as per Nitro) the CoM of the train actually never attains the height of the highest point of track (in the same way a high jumper can flop over the bar without putting their CoM above the bar at any point). By having the pre-drop, the CoM of the train makes it to a higher height (thereby giving the train more total energy) without increasing the length of the lift. Don't know how significant this is, but it's a thought.

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