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Never rode, but the Aeroplane/Airplane Coaster that was at Rye Playland looks awesome, and I would like to ride it. I found a No Limits recreation and the ride clocked in at 55 mph! The GCI rendering looks stellar. The ride even has its own Facebook! There are fantastic pictures there that really show how fierce the ride looks. Looks intense for a 1928 woodie! If it rides anything like the park's other Church woodie, the Dragon Coaster, I'm sure it was smooth as silk. Old Footage: NoLimits recreation: GCI recreation: Bring Back the Airplane Coaster Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bring-Back-the-Airplane-Coaster/135614226454107

I think it'd be an Intamin. The map someone posted a few pages back shows a compact area. El Toro and T Express are very compact for their punch. And you'd need a tunnel or an super-fast chain lift to get over the 70mph record with only 165ft of height. Who makes super fast lifts? Intimin. Intim's quick-building "plug and play" construction method would also explain why construction would be delayed this long.

Not a bad name, but I had no clue who Bizarro was until the Medusa/Superman re-theme that Six Flags pulled.

And if it stalls...

Not that I know of. In fact, when they were seeking permits to build a 380ft SkyScreamer, the town said they could go up to 410ft to take the record!

^ Don't know about NJ, but that's the final week before New York schools re-open. There'll be lot's and lot's of kids/teens, the latter will be unsupervised and could be a problem with line cutting. I'd get a Flash Pass (if I had any money lol).

See signature! Not really my "home park", but do you expect me to get a season pass to Quassy?!

I've improved my concept of the lay-down-on-your-stomach drop tower idea that I posted many pages back, after figuring out loading would be impossible. In my new concept, you would load standing up. Stand, backup into the rear part of the restraint, like a Starship/Gravitron/Rotor. Then, the attendant lower a full-body cage, like a Zamperla Volare flying coaster(see video: ). After that, the "car" would lower into the lay-down-on-your-tummy position. Lift up slowly, and freefall down to get the sensation that you're skydiving (without a parachute). Imagine, you rise until you're perched 200-400ft in the air looking straight down, not knowing when the "car" will be released and you plummet towards the concrete below. You freefall down, airtime floatiness kicking in, and right when you think you'll become a pancake on the ground, the brakes kick in, and you slow to a stop mere feet from the ground. Of course you won't know though, you've had your eyes closed since the ride began

Shhhhh...don't give away the secret...let the others continue to think Boomerangs suck.

B&M: Batman: The Dark Night/Batman: The Ride(SFNE) Intimin: Alpine Bobsled (Great Escape) Vekoma: Zoomerang (Lake Compounce) Maurer Söhne: Gotham City Gauntlet: Escape from Arkham Asylum (SFNE)/RoadRunner Express (SFKK) Allan Herschell: Mad Mouse (Quassy) (defunct or moved to Mexico) CCI: Boulder Dash Arrow: Canyon Blaster (Great Escape) Philadelphia Toboggan: Comet (Great Escape) Gerstlauer: Pandemonium (SFNE) Zamperla: Super Flight (Rye Playland) Gravity Group: Wooden Warrior + a collection of wooden coaster manufacturers that only made one or two coasters (Cobb, Church, ect.)

True, but I think the author meant "g-force" as positive g-force without saying it. I never call airtime negative g-force and my friends understand me when I just say "g-force" if we're in a loop or helix instead of saying "positive g-force".

Depends. You can always have too strong g's and too powerful airtime. It usually depends on what restraint I'm in. I love El Toro's airtime because you are strapped in so tight with the hydraulic restraints your thighs can't move and it's not that painful. Other rides like Lake Compounce's Boulder Dash the restraints can be too loose and you get a painful ride because your thighs get pulverized on the airtime hills. If it's a hot day and SFNE's Bizarro is running fast your thighs get destroyed on the final bunny hops. On a day like that I'd prefer the helixes over said final bunny hops. Older wooden coasters that deliver floaty airtime are nice. An example of overpowering g's would be on a Starship/Gravitron. I can handle one ride on those but not another. Batman clones deliver just right g's without being too strong or being too weak. If I had to choose: airtime>g's

Great picture taking! I want to use one of the pictures for my desktop background and screensaver but I don't know which ones to use since there's so many good ones! Glad you enjoyed yourself! Hope you survived the Wildcat at LC...

Anything with loud anti-rollbacks sounds awesome to me, especially on old wooden coasters. So nostalgic!

It's August. Families are cramming in there last vacations before school begins in a few weeks. I went to SFNE mid-August 2 years ago, and haven't gone to a major theme park in August since then. Sorry for the wait times, it's just the August Curse.

I don't get these fast body slides. I tend to avoid them due to the pain of the slide seams, and especially, the pool /runout at the bottom. Too much pain for a 5 second ride. How do you guys tolerate it?

Yes.

Here's a YT video claiming to be the leaked POV of this ride. In the video, it is indeed an invert and called Banshee. If it's true, it looks really good. 7 inversion B&M invert, I'd take that.

Was there a flashpass in the Six Flags days?

Do the combs on the media passes actually come with hair on them?

Agreed. I rode it once opening day this year and it was really painful. I was quite nervous to go on it 2 weeks ago because of that experience. It was OK that day. Other times it's been better. As for wait times, I've waited an hour or less every time. However, the last 2 years I've never seen the line past the little switchback under the track. Anybody notice that Blizzard River has been running a lot faster this year, or am I crazy? I like that they added sprayers on that long straight section.

It's a new ride. I'm sure it had computer-restraint backup. Someone else mentioned this in the discussion. My speculation is that the restraint came undone on the double up (or could be any part of the ride) and she was able to hang on until the turn. In one of Bizarro's incidents the man's restraint came undone, but he was able to hang on until the final turn of the ride. So it is possible she could've held on until the turn.

Factoring in the excessive weight of the rider combined with the extreme negative g-forces on that ride might be enough to cause a part failure in the restraint. Like a popcorn kernel. The outwards force of the kernel (rider) causes it to break the shell (restraint).

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Meh, if I recall seatbelts are usually added primarily as a means of detecting if the lapbar is down far enough. Them being a backup restraint is just an added benefit. The Gerslauer trains on NTAG used electronic sensors and an indicator light to let operators know if the lapbar was safely down enough. ^^^^ The lights turn on to indicate that the lapbars are locked, but they do not indicate if they are properly down all the way. I am not speculating that this was the case here, but just clarifying the light sensors. Like on some S&S towers where the bulb lights up above the rider's seat when the restraint is locked?