Video of Arrow's suspended coaster prototype

[mike okay]

I was looking around on youtube when I came across this interesting video

 

It's Arrow Dynamics Marketing Director Jim Sheldon discussing the suspended coaster prototype. The clip is from 1979 and has video of a scale model suspended coaster doing a corkscrew. It also has footage (including pov) of a full sized model built without banked turns.

 

It's an interesting video if only for Jim Sheldon's radical 'stash

[mike robinson]

Wow, thats a pretty cool find. They showed that clip at SFAW the first year the TV Monitors went up in 1984, the same year XLR8 opened.

[bigdaniel]

Suspended Coaster with corkscrew? Looks funny and dangerous. The video is nice, thank you.

 

 

Greetings

Daniel

[Scaparri]

I know they didn't have near the programs that we have availabe today, but it just boggles my mind that they weren't bright enough to bank the track on the prototype, as well as the Bat at PKI. To me, it just seems like common sense that banking the track will reduce stress on the train. Whatever.

 

That's a pretty cool video though. Thanks.

[bgwfreak]

I saw this a long time ago, well the prototype in action at least (the model).

 

The corkscrew would have been cool, but I wonder if it would have ripped the trains apart with all the swinging afterwards.

 

It might have made you sick too.

[arrowfanman]

I sooo have to try the ArrowStash for myself!

 

 

 

-Jahan "Just playin...not that much of a fanman!" Makanvand

[ECZenith]

That's interesting how the full-scale model had more of an Intamin style track design than the current suspended coaster we know today. Too bad we never got a corkscrew on one of these babies.

[pkdcoaster]

Where do you think he got that video from?????

Right here of course!

 

America Screams-1979 Coaster special

 

It has been on this site since June 30th

 

Go to the link if you want the Whole show, It is very good!

 

(He also Jacked my Dueling Dragons POV haha)

 

JEFF

[VegasCoaster]

I love how the train just whips around the corkscrew. Definately a good thing they didn't include that in the full scale model or that would have hurt, at least if it was built the way it was built in the model.

[Mr. Volcano]

Wow cool.. and great find. I thought that was an interesting little video really. Was that Ron Toomer in the video or just a random Arrow engineer?

 

-Justin

[mike okay]

He was the marketing director.

[Reon]

Nah...I say random Arrow engineer...

 

Nice find. That corkscrew would have been sweet full scale, but also way too taxing on the body...

[hectordelbano]

The reason suspended coasters never came with corkscrews is that the velocity required to flip the entire weight of the trains over the track was immense, and there was always the dangerous possibility of the trains not making it over (and collapsing on themselves and riders)

 

Too bad...that's why we have B&M Inverted coasters like Batman for the below-the-track inverting coaster. Leave poor beleaguered Ninja alone.

[thomas2]

That was a cool video. That prototype seemed fun (altough it does swing alot due to non-banked turns)

 

Ooh and corkscrews on suspended coaster just don't seem right

[rbpia]

What would hurt more, the sudden stop on that prototype or the normal headbanging on a real Arrow coaster?

 

rbpia

"Owwww my head

[kennywood!007]

(While I was watching I shouted)

 

"WTF a corkscrew?!?!"

 

LOL! I got such a kick out of tht video, the POV music was deffinatel 70's Man that corkscrew would be very interesting to see.

[exmouse]

That version of POV music was at one stage the theme tune for the Saturday afternoon sports show called Grandstand that has run on the BBC since 1958. If you go to http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tv_and_radio/grandstand/3745967.stm and click on watch opening credits you'll see we still use it today although modernised a tad. At one stage it was completely changed and the public outcry lead to it's return.

[Calvin]

Great music at the end there, for a moment I thought it would cut to Laverne and Shirley.

[Satoshi]

whoa! the designer made 1st Suspended Prototype model with a

corkscrew for an experiment in 1979..... and the train looks so

danger it gets lots of shakes in lateral lol..... that's why Arrow

can't build that one!