Lift hill speed

If the train gets to the top in 25 seconds, you will be traveling about 12mph, which will be a thrill in itself. Just think about it, a normal lift hill takes you at about 4 mph up a shallow slope, somewhere between 15 and 30 degrees. MF takes you at 3 times that speed, at nearly 3 times the steepness...

The epic proportions of this ride are still shocking to me.

yea that will be cool my stomic droped out just on going to the top of the demon drop the first time i rode it it was great

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let me off here!!!! :) hey i finnally learned how to do it

Whats a stomic?

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Ain't it neat to have your butt out of the seat.

I think he ment stomach

Yep thats what he meant!

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The more you ride it, the more you want it!

~~~Darla~~~

You hope! :)
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"Your obssesed w/ that place aren't you?" (as stated by my best-friends about CP)

Today at COSI/Toledo, Robin Innes reported that the lift speed should be about 11 ft/sec. That's roughly 7.5 mph. A back-of-the-envelope calculation says that for a 310-foot lift hill at 45 degrees, that's about 438 feet of track. At 11 ft/sec,. that would be almost 40 seconds to the top. Ride time on Millennium Force is supposed to be 2:45 or so; I am guessing 2:42 to match the rest of the rides in the park ( :) ). That means a dispatch interval of about 70 seconds. To do that, the lift pusher would have to reset in under 30 seconds. To do that, it would have to make the return trip at better than 14 ft/sec, or about 10 mph. For comparison, it takes 70 seconds to get from the station to the top of Magnum's lift hill, which is why that lift hill is almost never quiet for more than about fifteen seconds at a time. --Dave Althoff, Jr.

And while talking about the lift mechanism, some other interesting facts...

The cable from the drum to the front of the lift "sled" is much thicker than the one from the drum to the back of the sled. Of course, if I would have thought about the grooves in the drum from the photos I shot back in October, this would have been obvious.

The drum and motor are below the drop on a concrete foundation about 10 feet above ground level. The cable crosses through the track at the end of the arc over the top of the hill.

There are small pulleys in the towers that guide the cable back to the station about 15 feet above ground.

The sled itself is at least half the length of the train.

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Jeff
Webmaster/Guide to The Point
"And he says 'I'm goin' crazy up there at the lake...'"