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the coaster will reach peak speed at the bottom of the 300 foot drop unless any of the following occur :
1. the track elsewhere on the ride is sitting at a lower elevation (and it not only has to be lower, but it has to be low enough to gain enough extra speed to overcome the energy lost to friction)
2. the ride has some sort of LIM to boost the speed somewhere after the first drop.
there are no indications that either of these are true, so we will have to assume that the coaster will reach peak speed at the bottom of the first drop
1. the track elsewhere on the ride is sitting at a lower elevation (and it not only has to be lower, but it has to be low enough to gain enough extra speed to overcome the energy lost to friction)
2. the ride has some sort of LIM to boost the speed somewhere after the first drop.
there are no indications that either of these are true, so we will have to assume that the coaster will reach peak speed at the bottom of the first drop
Well, are we sure it's gonna go 92? I mean, on a windy day with "horizontally inclined" people in the car (I know that weight doesn't have a gravitational effect, but it is more momentum through wind)can it get up to 95,97?
Or is 92 MAX.
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"The Italic Squirrels. Woulnd't that be a cool name for a rock band?"-Dave Barry
Or is 92 MAX.
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"The Italic Squirrels. Woulnd't that be a cool name for a rock band?"-Dave Barry
Millennium Force may infact go faster than 92 mph in some types of weather. I clocked Magnum going almost 80 mph one time. Now I will be looking to ride this Force on days with odd weather (Snow, Rain, Fog, wind, so on) and will be clocking it every time. I wan't to see how much this baby can pull out. You could say I want to see how powerfull this Force is.
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AKA: bodyin thewaterball fountain.
Paddlewheel Excursions: 12
Jokes on PE: 120
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AKA: bodyin thewaterball fountain.
Paddlewheel Excursions: 12
Jokes on PE: 120
No, that's what my little GPS said. pretty accurate but can be a little off. The weather conditions where very strange that day. it was raining all day and a mist was hanging in the air the track must have been very slick. The wind also helped. I am really not sure how it did it but it did it. I have also clocked Iron Dragon near 40 mph. I am not sure what the speed on the Dragon is but that must have been high. I have never clocked any other CP coaster more than slightly over it's said speed. I have clocked Magnum at 70 mph and Gemini at 57 mph.I have never clocked Disastor Transport, Wildcat, Or Mean Streak. I also want to clock Paddlewheel Excursions just for fun this season. So if you see someone careing around a hand held GPS then be sure to say hi becouse it is probably me.
Magnum was going more in the 78, 79 mph range but I decided to round it to 80 just so I would remember.
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AKA: bodyin thewaterball fountain.
Paddlewheel Excursions: 12
Jokes on PE: 120
Magnum was going more in the 78, 79 mph range but I decided to round it to 80 just so I would remember.
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AKA: bodyin thewaterball fountain.
Paddlewheel Excursions: 12
Jokes on PE: 120
Remember that a GPS receiver is not 100% accurate; it's even less accurate when you're trying to clock speed. Want to measure the top speed with some precision? You need to know the distance between two points at the bottom of the hill...or you need to know the length of the train. Shoot the ride with a video camera and see how far the train goes in 1/30 of a second (one frame).
The theoretical maximum velocity is (60/11) * sqr(h) where h is in feet and the velocity is in miles per hour. That formula assumes a dead stop at the top of the drop and no resistive forces, which is a pair of unreasonable assumptions..in reality the top speed is probably a bit lower.
--Dave Althoff, Jr.
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