Want a taste for the lift?...

Ok, we've tried to comprehend what 310 feet will be like by using the Power Tower. Well I found an intersting image of a 300 ft. building right in downtown Pittsburgh. Check it out and remember to add 10 feet to it...

http://www.city.pittsburgh.pa.us/wt/html/alcoa%5Fbuilding%5F1953.html

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Brian Z.
Greensburg PA
Hometown parks: Kennywood, Cedar Point!

I think that building is much taller than 300 feet. It is 30 stories, plus a huge lobby. If you want to judge it by building in Pittsburgh, take a gander at the Kopper's Building We do know it's as tall as the building that Jeff works in!!

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Neil
Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix Zero-1

If you live in Cleveland... check the Diamond Building, E.12th and Superior (southwest corner), add 10 feet, you're there.

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Jeff
Webmaster/Guide to The Point

Try town hall if you are in Buffalo
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"Meesa Okee Day"-Jar Jar Binks

I think Most buildings in Detroit are pretty small. Not all but most are.

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AKA: bodyin thewaterball fountain.

Paddlewheel Excursions: 12
Jokes on PE: 120

we here in Chicago LAUGH at all of you with your puny buildings!!! HAHAHAHA!!!! how about launching a coaster off of the Sears Tower? 1,353 feet!!! that's 3 MF's and then some!!! of course, platform parachuting off of it would be cool too. if the wind didn't get you first...well, anyway, i forgot now. oh yeah. big buildings...big coaster...droooollll.

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"I think I scrambled my brain!!"

Yeah? Well we here in Harrisburg...

...Uh, nevermind.

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Duane Cahill
http://www.nittanylions.com

I hate to tell ya but the Sears tower is 1457ft tall. And Detroit buildings are over 400ft.

Heck, even Cleveland has a building near 1,000 (Key Bank).

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Jeff
Webmaster/Guide to The Point

Buffalo doesn't though there is supposed to be a 600' building going up in ten years, Buffalo is a pit--HELP!!

oh no...it's BUILDING WARS!!! That figure i gave for Sears Tower was from the observation deck..the antennas actually add that extra hight, i believe...but i could be wrong.

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"I think I scrambled my brain!!"

For height comparison here in Toledo, its taller than the OI building!!

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Ride it hard, long, and furious!

For the Nor Cal folk, it's higher than any building between San Fran and LA...

-- Harley

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CP fan since 68.

My uncle works in the Society (Key) Bank building in Cleveland, and it's dizzying to look down, plus the structure moves in the wind. Good for watching fireworks in though, and spying on Jacob's Field with a telescope :)

Detroit does have quite a few tall buildings. That is why I emphasized that they have some tall ones.

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AKA: bodyin thewaterball fountain.

Paddlewheel Excursions: 12
Jokes on PE: 120

talk about moving in the wind...the Sears Tower sways about three feet in any direction when the wind really picks up in Chi-town!! you can feel it!!! think MF will have that problem? i've heard that Magnum does....

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"I think I scrambled my brain!!"

It will but so small it will be unnoticeable.

Have you ever watched Space Spiral flap in the breeze? I was standing in line for Raptor once and looked up at Spiral through one of the upside-down V-shaped supports in the helix. What an amazing thing to see that thing sway in comparison to the stationary columns!

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Jeff
Webmaster/Guide to The Point