tigzie1 wrote:Has anyone though of the worlds first vertical launched lift hill?
If you watch the 3D image u can scan off the Smiler Page you can see the car doesn't stop at the vertical lift hill and they could have stopped them on the render image. (People say it would be uncomfortable however the lift hills are in a field only a mile away... Why keep them out of the frame so late?
I personally think it will still open in May considering how confident AT are however I agree that the lifts probably aren't standard as they would have been constructed much earlier.
RCT3Bross wrote:roodlesnouter wrote:JammyBand wrote:Danny wrote:That is the pic I've been waiting for. It shows the newly built section of the ride, zoomed out, clearly. (The snow is a bonus!) However, the snow has not been cleared in many areas, so it may affect construction yet. You can see half of the bunny hop, which means it is not a barrel roll. (thank goodness!) It looks just about steep enough to give us a pop of airtime, though not any where near as good as Speed at Oakwood. Doesn't appear to be any trims on it, so they must not be worried about the speed of the car as it passes over the bunny hop. Looking great!!!The Smiler in the snow, anyone?
Bunny hops could well be will be trimmed. You can see sensors on the loop before them
In his defense the loop before that low speed hill you see isn't build yet. in your defense it doesn't meanthere won't be trims on the hill. The top of the hill could still have trims as it has to one section and the top isn't reached yet. Wait and see what happens.
roodlesnouter wrote:RCT3Bross wrote:roodlesnouter wrote:JammyBand wrote:Danny wrote:That is the pic I've been waiting for. It shows the newly built section of the ride, zoomed out, clearly. (The snow is a bonus!) However, the snow has not been cleared in many areas, so it may affect construction yet. You can see half of the bunny hop, which means it is not a barrel roll. (thank goodness!) It looks just about steep enough to give us a pop of airtime, though not any where near as good as Speed at Oakwood. Doesn't appear to be any trims on it, so they must not be worried about the speed of the car as it passes over the bunny hop. Looking great!!!The Smiler in the snow, anyone?
Bunny hops could well be will be trimmed. You can see sensors on the loop before them
In his defense the loop before that low speed hill you see isn't build yet. in your defense it doesn't meanthere won't be trims on the hill. The top of the hill could still have trims as it has to one section and the top isn't reached yet. Wait and see what happens.
The element "loop" before the the "low speed hill" is built, it is the sea serpent element. see below.
The sensor is near the supports on the lower part of the element, see image below, center og the image.
And zoomed in.
It is this sensor that makes me think we will see trims on the following element.
My NL recreation isn't the most accurate thing, but I have been finding it very hard to build the batwing in such a way that reduces the amount of Gs as you go into it. Based on that trims, may be necessary...
roodlesnouter wrote:@RCT3Bross
We are talking about different areas of the ride LOL not suprising as it is huge.
I was talking about the long straight section on the outside leadind into the cobra, see below.
thanks phild94
Where I guess you are talking about the one further in the middle.My NL recreation isn't the most accurate thing, but I have been finding it very hard to build the batwing in such a way that reduces the amount of Gs as you go into it. Based on that trims, may be necessary...
Could well be the reason, I know montu is trimmed before its batwing element as people were passing out because of the intensity.
RubyGaga wrote:Sorry for what will seem to you all as a stupid question, but what do you mean when you say the bunny hops will be trimmed?
I dont speak fluent rollercoaster..
RubyGaga wrote:Sorry for what will seem to you all as a stupid question, but what do you mean when you say the bunny hops will be trimmed?
I dont speak fluent rollercoaster..
JonoD wrote:RubyGaga wrote:Sorry for what will seem to you all as a stupid question, but what do you mean when you say the bunny hops will be trimmed?
I dont speak fluent rollercoaster..
'Trimming' is something that happens on pretty much all roller coasters after they're built. Basically, in pretty much all cases, the real roller coaster doesn't behave exactly as its found in simulations. In most cases, the ride will be traveling faster than the original designs predicted. To compensate for this, they install 'trims' along the track, which are basically very small brake sections that corrects the speed of the train to bring it closer to the original simulation.
So in this case, they may be installing one of these 'trims' on the bunny hop.
Trisnie wrote:JonoD wrote:RubyGaga wrote:Sorry for what will seem to you all as a stupid question, but what do you mean when you say the bunny hops will be trimmed?
I dont speak fluent rollercoaster..
'Trimming' is something that happens on pretty much all roller coasters after they're built. Basically, in pretty much all cases, the real roller coaster doesn't behave exactly as its found in simulations. In most cases, the ride will be traveling faster than the original designs predicted. To compensate for this, they install 'trims' along the track, which are basically very small brake sections that corrects the speed of the train to bring it closer to the original simulation.
So in this case, they may be installing one of these 'trims' on the bunny hop.
I am sorry as I suspect this may not be the place for this and I doubt it would happen with this coaster but has anyone ever build a coaster which after all the testing was so far off the spec it didn't work?
ukparknews wrote:The Big one at Blackpool is a good example. It didn't fail to work, but both the drop and turnaround had to be re-profiled.
Rollercoasters4Life wrote:ukparknews wrote:The Big one at Blackpool is a good example. It didn't fail to work, but both the drop and turnaround had to be re-profiled.
Guessing the never went through with the re-profiling then...
Hopefully the snow stays off for now and they can get back to some track lifting maybe after mid day tomorrow once some of the snow clears.
Trisnie wrote:
I am sorry as I suspect this may not be the place for this and I doubt it would happen with this coaster but has anyone ever build a coaster which after all the testing was so far off the spec it didn't work?
M3tabolic wrote:Trisnie wrote:
I am sorry as I suspect this may not be the place for this and I doubt it would happen with this coaster but has anyone ever build a coaster which after all the testing was so far off the spec it didn't work?
The best example I can think of is Maverick at Cedar Point. They had delay the opening to take out an inline twist because it was so intense it caused way too much stress to the track and wheel assemblies of the cars. There was also concern that the lateral Gs of the heartline would be dangerous for passengers.
For some reason it's now difficult to find pictures of this, but you can see it at about 3:25 in this video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBO6ExqKRwI
EDIT: A way better video of it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guTTVVco1NA