How many of you would ride in this ?????

this guy

 

I fly China Eastern enough to want to stay away from something like that if I can help it...

 

RIGHT NOW....FRONT CAR!!

DL

 

would love to!

growing up next to six flags...has me desensitized (sp?) to that stuff.

details..where is it..speed..height..blah blah

 

Thats nothing boys! Meet Kingda Ka! The worlds tallest and fastest rollercoaster. Stats you ask? 456 ft. How fast? Oh 0-128 in 3.5 seconds. That makes an Enzo look like a car w/ squares for tires.

http://www.sixflags.com/whats_new.asp

 

Wouldn't mind. But I find these things awfully boring. You know you're just gonna get moved around a bit. If there actually was a risk of randomly releasing a passenger at each lap would make things entertaining!

 

No thanks, and I'm a pilot also. I can think of other ways to puke up my lunch.

 

weird

i always thought pilots would like this kind of stuff

 

strange isn't it??

 

Actually, there was a Pop Mech article on Killer Coasters in one of the 03 mags. A handful of people die every year on them!

A different article:

Coaster Chaos
We take to the tracks with real-life rides from hell
Maxim Online, August 2000
By Jordan Burchette

Few things are more thrilling than a 60-mile-per-hour, rectum-roasting rail ride. Lately, however, some amusement park patrons have experienced thrills a bit more visceral than they bargained for—in the form of death and dismemberment.

According to a recent Consumer Product and Safety Commission study, the number of injuries at the nation’s amusement parks has nearly doubled over the past four years. During the 1990’s alone, there were 21 rider deaths at amusement parks nationwide.

So before you brave the Super Triple Death Loop at your local fun park, you’d be well advised to review some of the worst roller coaster accidents of the last 20 years. Kick back, tense up, and ignore the gore…


July 9, 1980 Branson, MO
The ride’s operator switched tracks to divert what he thought was an empty train into a service area. What he didn’t know was that the train was still occupied. When the car ran through a low clearance area, a rider’s head was flattened between the back of his seat and an overhead wooden beam, killing him instantly.

October 17, 1983 Dallas, TX
Soon after the Enterprise began its furious spin, a gondola housing two brothers snapped off of the main frame, plummeted to the ground below, and skidded 40 feet into the Fair’s congested midway. While no one on the ground was injured, one brother broke a leg and suffered internal injuries, while the other died of multiple injuries.

July 28, 1984 Minot, ND
When the ride started abruptly, a 27-year-old man realized too late that the attendant had failed to lower the padded lap bar over him and his little brother. Both began to slip from the car as it made its 360-degree loop, but managed to pull themselves back in. However, when the roller coaster made a sharp left turn, the little brother was flung from the side of the car and thrown 30 feet to the ground, dying instantly of a fractured skull.

June 17, 1987 Jackson, NJ
The safety bar securing a 19-year-old woman was inadvertently locked behind her when the ride was set in motion. Taking notice, the operator still chose not to deploy the emergency stop mechanism, mindful that more people can be harmed if the ride is stopped abruptly past a certain point. When the roller coaster began its 40 mph descent, the woman was thrown some 75 feet to her death.

May 30, 1996 Valencia, CA
A park attendant stepped on to the tracks in front of the ride’s loading area at about the same time a five-car train, previously stopped in a staging area, started up again to complete its ride. Struck by the oncoming train, she was thrown from the tracks into a cramped pit below, where paramedics found her dead of massive injuries. The train, starting from a dead stop, was traveling a blistering 4 mph at the time of impact.

April 20, 1997 Tulsa, OK
One person was killed and five others injured when the mechanism pulling the coaster up a lift hill failed, causing the car to roll back down the incline. The wayward train crashed into another car, which was approaching the chain lift. A 14-year-old boy was thrown from the car during the crash, striking his head against a steel support.

August 28, 1999 Ocean City, NJ
While nearing the top of its incline, the ride’s drag chain released prematurely, sending the car backward down a 41-foot slope. A woman and her eight-year-old daughter were flung from the car as it whipped around a 90-degree bend at the base of the drop. Both were killed upon striking the ride’s steel support beams.

 

In a heartbeat

 

I am scared of heights, yet flying is no issue for me. I've even been in the front seat of a helicopter before and the view down through the floor doesn't bother me.

 

The aforementioned Popular Mechanics article:

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/medicine/1281111.html

 

Yes!

Where is it?

 

Erik,

can you explain how that works??

 

Man.. That is Awesome..
Tell me where to go.. and im in.. ROADTRIP!

 

More trust in dynamics than statics?

 

i guess i dont understand how one be afraid ofheights..and not afraid of flying.

makes sense..if ur a passenger in the back seat..and cant see anything

but you said you were in a helicopter

cant see the diff between heli and rollercoast

eh well.

 

Looks good... That's the one in Ohio right? I would love to ride it a few dozen times in an afternoon.

 

I would be the first one to jump in the very last car. I love riding in the back of rollercoasters.

 

I rode that coaster in Ocean city the week before those two people died on it. I can't believe its been 6 years. The coaster wasn't even big.
Erik

 

You just reminded me of a very stupid and foolish thing i did riding one particular coaster at Astroworld here in Houston. The ride, Greezed Lightning, shot from 0-75mph in 2 or 3 seconds go into a loop and then up a step slope where it would get to the top, pause, and then go backwards. When it got to the other end at the top(last car), i left my lap bar with a gap b/w me and it so i could more for some reason lean forward to get the full effect. Would do it all the time. ****ing stupid now that i think about it. What was i thinking. I could have very easily rolled out.