ALSO...there are two of that element on the ride..
*** This post was edited by RideTTD2003 7/25/2003 5:08:12 PM ***
I don't know if it has an official name, but this is what everyone calls it.
I don't think it's an "element" per se, it's just a banked turn, a flat spot, and then a banked turn in the opposite direction. There's two of them on that ride.
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"Horizontal loop" is what the park calls the near-helix after it and "Caroussel" is what they call the helix itself mid-ride.
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THAT element is a * Bückel * (German, pronounced book-ull, like in dull)
It's named after a ski zigzag movement...Werner Stengel put something like it on top of a hill :-)
It was first used on Expedition GeForce as a real element, but similar try-outs can be found on Medusa and Apollo for example.
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Belgian said:
Stengel dive is the official name (by the Stengel design team themselves) of the 'wicked turning hill' on Goliath.
I read in First Drop that Stengel referred to that element as a "Revolution". I thought "stengel dive" was something that ECC members came up with.
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