Tornado : New Intamin Inverted Coaster

I dont know, I've never felt "Zero-G-ness" on the B&M inline spins. More often than not I feel pressed into the seat while upside-down (not a bad thing). The camelback inversions on the sitdowns (Kumba, Kraken, Hulk) on the other hand give a more "suspended in space" feeling (that is till you get yanked down the drop side esp. on Kumba!). Ehh, it's all gravy to me :)
jeremy

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http://www.joyrides.com/cedar_point/full/raptor6.htm" target=_blankB&M invert from the side, draw an arc over the roll inline with the hills up to and after it. You'll get a nice smooth curve.
The floorless rides seem to be more heartline, but I never really looked hard enough to know. /P

good point... the original intention of these rolls were to do a hill and have the top part be inverted. But since the inverted coaster train is below the track and were using articulated cars, they could flip it around quickly at the 'tip' of the hill, while keeping the physical track level.
The floorless coasters zero-g rolls are definitely more heartline, but are pretty much attempting the same idea, since they are at the peak of hills.
-djansi/P

Go to this picture. I is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.rcdb.com/installationgallery1076.htm?Picture=8

Jeff's avatar
You know, on Raptor last night I confirmed my feeling about that photo link above to Joyrides. You do feel upward motion, but at the same time you get a serious lateral pull as the train rolls.

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