first looping coaster

what was the first coaster with a loop?

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Knotts Corkscrew was the first inverting coaster, Revolution @ SFMM was the first vertical looping. These are the first sucessful looping coasters, I should say. The first loopers were in the early 1900s, which usually didn't last too long and used circular loops, with maybe 1 or 2 exceptions.

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When did American Eagle get more airtime than Viper?

cool thanks

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¿What is a Juggalo?

Coney Island had one called the Flip Flap in the early 20th Century. Its biggest downfall was capacity. Only one person could ride at a time and the G's had to be high in order to keep the coaster on the track.

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Guide to Indiana Beech

Flip Flap

The first looping coaster was the French Cetrifugical Railway in 1848. Flip Flap Railway's problem wasn't capacity, that went to the the first coaster with an eliptical loop, the Loop de Loop, though it did not have the extreme gravitational forces on the loop, it had a small capacity(believe it was 2 seperate cars that carried two people) which caused extremely long lines and repeat riders were few.

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Lake Compounce-So Fresh and So Clean Clean

Yea it was the flip flap.

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Are roller coasters my life? NO, but I certainly like them!

Danny1985 said:
Yea it was the flip flap.
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Are roller coasters my life? NO, but I certainly like them!

The first looping coaster was the French Cetrifugical Railway in 1848. Flip Flap Railway was first American. Some people just exclude the Centrifugical Railway because it was a little off set from the modern coaster, but it still is desputively the first looping coaster.

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Lake Compounce-So Fresh and So Clean Clean

*** This post was edited by Vertigo on 5/8/2002. ***

oops, I need to go back to roller coaster history 101. Here is the info on the French Centrifugal Loop.