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also carowinds lists afterburn as having a "space drop". the only thing i could imagine this applying to is the first drop, which is just a regular drop. guess it just sounds cool in advertising, along with a "flatspin", which i guess is their version of a "wing over" aka a cooler way to say corkscrew.

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Wing over = Batwing. Banshee's is not typical. It enter/exits over and under vs side by side.

Flat spin = corkscrew. It is also an air maneuver on planes, which some inverted coasters elements come from.

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B&M has been known to call what we know commonly as "corkscrews", wingovers.

They are interchangeable names, in layman's terms, for the same element.

 

The "space drop" is certainly a marketing buzz-word. The drop provides a weightless experience (like in space), so that's likely where it's derived from.

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I stopped trying to understand how we label inversions long ago. I realized that parks and manufacturers will call them whatever sounds marketable, and trying to distinguish between different types is a headache and, honestly, a waste of time because they are constantly changing!

 

Who cares?

 

Just my two cents...

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