Roller Coaster Triva

[pagemaster_b]

Thinking about the coaster jumping the tracks got me thinking about another roller coaster feature -- the inversion.

 

See if you can answer these:

 

1. What was the name of the first looping coaster?

2. What was the problem with it's design?

3. What was the name of the second looping coaster?

4. What was the difference in the loop's design from the first?

5. How did they demonstrate the safety of the loop?

[YoshiFan]

1. Flip Flap Railway

2. Had too many G-Forces due to it being circular and people got Whiplash and other neck injuries. They tried to modify the seats but it didn't help.

3. Loop-the-Loop

4. It was eliptical shaped so the forces weren't as intense

5. Not sure but, they might have held people upside down for an extended period of time?

[pagemaster_b]

Wow, that was quick! You'd be surprised how little coaster fans know about these.

 

How did they demonstrate The Loop-the-Loop to be safe? Anybody else want to take a crack at it? It's pretty interesting.

[BiCoastal Kid]

It was the turn of the century, they probably put baby on it.

 

That baby later grew up to be retarded.

 

Why is this a seperate thread? Why can't there just be one coaster trivia game? Heck, it could even be a game...

[Twister II]

Wasn't it Revolution at SFMM?

[Wes]

^ No. Revolution was the first "modern" looping coaster.

[CoasterFanatic]

The Corkscrew at Knotts opened a year earlier, but I guess it really depends on what you consider a loop.

 

Stupid Fact of the day: Arrow tested the corkscrew inversion using a tire. That's right .... a tire!

[nannerdw]

You mean they rolled a tire along the track (which I just can't see happening), or they cut a tire and bent it into the shape of a corkscrew?

[CoasterFanatic]

They put a tire in the seat with no restraint in the seat and it didn't fall out. Next it was Ron Toomers turn.

[BiCoastal Kid]

^MAN, why din't it fail????

[pagemaster_b]

They put a tire in the seat with no restraint in the seat and it didn't fall out.

 

 

That's interesting! (I still like what the did for the Loop-the-Loop better.)

[haux]

^MAN, why din't it fail????

G-forces are crazy invisible things that somehow do magic and keep people from falling out of rides.

[CycloneMan]

Not fi your'e an Intamin Hyper

[WillMontu]

I think the first actual looping coaster was one of the original Russian Mountains in Paris. The loop was probably circular

[niiicolaaah]

centripetal force RULZ \m/

[niiicolaaah]

http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/Class/circles/u6l2b.html

 

http://phun.physics.virginia.edu/demos/tray.html

 

 

you can take a tray attached to a string, put a cup of water on it, and swing it over your head and it won't spill.

[pagemaster_b]

^ That's pretty much what they did with Loop-the-Loop. They used a glass of water and showed it did not spill through the loop.

[lapseofreason]

^ That's pretty much what they did with Loop-the-Loop. They used a glass of water and showed it did not spill through the loop.

 

 

Anyone remember this... I was watching some kids show about 10 years ago where they all took glasses of liquid on Colossus or The Beast or some other woodie and whoever didn't spill that much was the winner...

 

...sorry, that just reminded me of stuff.

 

 

-Amanda

[YoshiFan]

That was from Wild & Crazy Kids on Nickelodeon. It was the first episode I saw of the show (I also remember one of the other events from that episode was kids jumping off a diving board trying to catch a football thrown by a NFL quarterback). The coaster was Colossus. It was funny because the hosts were acting like they were scared to ride it and then at the end of the show, I think it was Donnie Jeffcoat who they tricked into getting into the car and dispatched the train before he realized it.

[Xenox]

Jee... I thought that they put a monkey on the train of the "loop the loop" and showed people that it didn't fall during the loop... or maybe its only me. :?