What was the first Cobra Roll... Raptor or Kumba?

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coasterdude318 said:
...The best example is the curved drop off the block brake into the corkscrew.  Up until Drachen Fire, when entering a left-hand corkscrew, Arrow would approach it with a left-hand curve.  But Drachen Fire's approach curves to the right, then whips around the left-hand corkscrew ...

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Not really.  Both Demons (PGA and SFGAm) have a left hand curve downwards into a right hand double cork...do there goes that theory.
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*** This post was edited by V² Fiend on 12/6/2001. ***

I'm unable to find a good picture of it online, but the drop into the corkscrews off the turnaround is not just a left-hand curve.  It begins as a left hand curve (a continuation of the left-hand turnaround), then flattens out (straightens) to just about the bottom, where it then curves/banks to the right and rounds out for the corkscrews.  The best picture I've been able to find is http://www.rcdb.com/installationgallery3.htm?Picture=2 , where you can (if look closely) see where it straightens, then banks to the right.  In any case, looking at the picture will show that that drop can't be curved to the left the whole way down or it wouldn't match up.

-Nate

tyler: i even saw a show on TV a interview of ron toomer talking about designing it.  i dont recall the name of it, but i know others have seen it, ive heard them talking about it. 

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  I have seen the show you are talking about too... I don't remember what is was called though.  It was from like 1994 or 95 I think.

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