Kanonen, it's done.

Brakes are placed on the airtime hill (the uphill side)
Not sure how much these will slow down but they're stationary brakes, the same used as a final brakerun, is a lenght of one track piece.

Will those brakes be used as trims, or possibly back-up brakes in the case of a roll-back?

The brakes in question are after the tophat. Therefore they have nothing to do with a rollback. If you look at this artist rendering

http://www.rcdb.com/ig2905.htm?picture=1

the brake is located on the bunny hill following the tophat, but before the loop. My guess would be that they want to slow the train down before the loop in order to reduce the g's. I don't understand why it's on the upside of the bunny hill as I'd love to take that thing at speed and then slow a little before the loop.

I was going to make the same observation, Incidentalist. It seems a waste of an airtime hill to minimise the effect, but I hope it won't have too much of an effect and will just make the loop more comfortable.

I guess there are no more photos online of construction? How do you know about the trims, Olov? Have you seen the construction in person?

Here's some instructions to a few pictures:
1) click link http://mediabank.liseberg.se/
2)You need to fill in an username and password. It's press and balder. Log in
3) Arkiv->pressmaterial->pressbilder->Kanonen

There you'll find a few renderings and pictures from when they topped the tophat. One of them is taken from behind with the bunnyhop in the background. In the large resolution picture you can clearly see the brakes.

I really hope there's enough speed for some airtime on the rest of the hills.

Update: Talking about the bunnyhill after the tophat. The front cars are doing the pull through and are now resting on the bunnyhill. Yellow and red, just like stormrunner's. *** Edited 1/21/2005 10:50:58 PM UTC by olov***

moosh, that link in my post isn't really a link, the forum software automatically makes anything with 3 or more 'w's in it a link...

As for the top links, you need to look at them around 3 or 4 am easter time to see it in the day light. I checked it out early this monring, and it was updated every min., it's just that they have night over there when we have daylight (that whole darn being on the other side of the world thing and all in winter;)).

Since it's a press photo, I uploaded it here so you don't have to jump through hoops.

Those brakes after the mini-top hat can't feel very good!

So I wonder if those brakes are on there because they want this to be more of a 'family' ride, since it only has like 2 inversions, isn't that fast, and isn't that tall?

Other than those breaks (is breaking on Rockets the trend this year?!?), I want one in my back yard. And yes, it would fit.

is it the camera angle, or in that picture does it look like the tophat droops over?

Also, the brakes are probably there (my guess), so the train doesn't go flying through the loop after an intense little bunny hop like that...maybe a bit unsettling on "family" stomachs...

Hey Mooshy, it's daylight there now in the link, whilst it is 4am right-coast time:).

One would think that instead of using brakes, Intamin would design the ride so that the top hat would be smaller, therefore requiring a lower speed. Since this isn't the case, can it be a safe inference that due to the trains, this is the smallest possible top hat that can be built?

Also, I didn't realize that the brakes after the top hat were magnetic and not pneumatic, which is why they may have been used for a valley (I said roll back originally) between the top hat and the loop.

Perhaps in terms of the required space to twist the track 90* so it can go over, and then twist another 90* to go down parallel to the launch track, it may be the smallest (without extensively re-engineering the trains to twist in a tighter radius). However, I would assume that if they wanted a "Top Hat" like Stormrunner's (where the exit of the tophat is 90* from the launch, not 180*) they could build it a tad smaller.

Just a heads up to people on the board right now (about 3am) The picture on the webcam is daylight at the moment, and you can see it fairly well!

Courtesy Link so you don't have to click back to page 1