Maverick Heartline

Jeff:

Speculation, of course. But there's no doubt that the dynamic forces on humans was well known before a single piece of steel was cut.

I'm sure that is the case. But why was there mistakes? They built it and then after the head engineers ride it, they made the decision to remove the heartline.. Hell, we all know Intamin has had a less-than-perfect track record. It reminds me of why Magnum opened with upstop brackets (like Gemin) instead of wheels. Ron Toomer assumed that it was just a larger scale mine ride and didn't need the wheels. LOL

Ccartwright - I never claim to be an expert. I was just stating some common sense. A ride is designed on computer, supposedly calculating all the forces on a human body, trains, track and structure. So why was it scrapped after they took one ride? A huge mistake was made somewhere.

Riding it had nothing to do with the determination that the wear and tear was outside of the expected limits. They're completely unrelated.

I was just going from what I heard back then about the decision was made after Sandor and his head engineeer rode it. If that is incorrect, then remove that from equation and you still have the fact a major engineering mistake was made somewhere that caused the park to delay opening of a new attraction. I will give Inamin props though considering that they designed, manufactured, shipped and replaced those pieces of track in a timely manner. I will speculate that the mistake was about the same that they had with SRF boats not fitting. :^)

I do believe that intamin had the track pieces and supports for the S curve fabricated prior to the decision being made to remove the inversion.