Power Tower Freefall

Does anyone think that maybe Cedar Point will get in on the extreme freefall trend after the Tower of Terror, Superman - The Escape, and now rumored Kingda Ka vertical tower additions?

Pete said:
Right, a true freefall means zero G, which means you are floating in space. I always floated on Demon Drop, I never stayed in the seat.

Correct, a true freefall is zero G.

But the ONLY reason you would separate from the seat is if you, and the mechanism you are attached to (ie, a seat) accelerated at varying amounts.

If you were both free-falling in a perfectly synchronous manner, you would never leave your seat, no? In other words, the elevator car cannot accelerate faster than you (again, not counting for friction, wind, etc).

Which is true, if you ignore inertia. Which is what causes you to separate from your seat, or the penny to separate from your leg. You accelerate at the same rate, but with different start times.

There is nothing holding you directly to the seat, so, inertia holds you in place in the air for a fraction of a second after the drop begins. Then, once inertia is overcome, you fall at the same rate as the car and maintain a constant distance between your butt and the seat until the car stops falling.

I always thought it might be interesting to see something other than a normal sit down free fall in a park such as this http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=lWuvlpYr3yg

I can't think of anything like this in the US. I always thought it would be an awesome concept though to have a free fall ride in which you sit as if getting in to the seat for a flying coaster, then the seats tilt as you go up so that your facing straight down, head first till you reach the ground. I suspect the blood rushing to your head at the breaks wouldn't be too comfortable though.

A similar thing did exist on the S&S Insane Towers (Vertigo) where the seat would flip at the top and you would plummet face first towards the ground.