Sunday, November 9, 2008

Crystal Beach Cyclone of Harry G. Traver



Some call the roller coaster the only avantgarde roller coaster ever built.

Gravitational script:
  • curve out of the station onto the lift
  • the chain lift
  • a spiraling first drop about 90 feet tall
  • a second hill which ended about 82 feet above the ground
  • an abrupt left turn down the second drop at 52 degrees
  • a spiral drop
  • the emergency brakes
  • a steep drop into the high speed figure eight
  • another drop and "hops" under the lift hill
  • a 210 degree high speed turn under the coaster's superstructure
  • a "zigzag" or "jazz twister" track (now called trick track)
  • a series of track which rose and fell like small, one foot bunny hops, leading back to the station


http://www.ultimaterollercoaster.com/coasters/history/designer/traver.shtml
http://www.designboom.com/history/traver.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Traver
Theme Park by Scott A. Lukas, p. 109

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