What is that on the top of the tophat?

I would rather have the photo at the end of the launch so you can see the distortion on the peoples faces from the wind. The force from the launch would probably affect them to.

Back to the "airtime" thing...

Negative g's = Airtime

Although I am, yes, a person who lets the restraints a 'little' loose. I feel that if we're all held in more on the tighter side, more negative g's can be accomplished thus producing a greater amount of extreme sensation, equal to, the fear of death!

What ever the case shall be, I can only hope to imagine it's insanity! :) ~~ (:

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*** This post was edited by Miller&Baker 12/21/2002 11:53:26 PM ***

Well, that's an awfully large support for...a camera. ;-) I was thinking more along the lines of the maintenance elevator also.

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What is the ladder looking thing in the middle of the tower? It looks like a elevator to me. But wouldn't that look tacky if it is perminent.

Also an On-Ride Camera would be cool on top of the TOPHAT. And how can that support be part of an elevator?
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Again on airtime, my logic of my last post, I'm pretty sure that the tighter you are in then the more airtime you experience. You experience the 'sensation' of airtime becuase your body is being forced in a direction that it doesn't naturally want to go. If you leave space between the lapbar then your body is more able to move around which means you won't experience the 'sensation' of airtime as much. I know that this is true on PT. I've left a good couple of inches between my legs and the restraints. Although you do actually experience airtime, it doesn't have the same 'sensation' of airtime as when I leave the restraints tighter. Maybe all of this would just suggest that the 'sensation' of airtime is maximized in between the two, neither stapled in or too loose. One thing is for sure, I won't be fiddling with the restraints on the first ride when I'm being sent 400ft in the air. Now maybe after a couple of runs I'll think about being risky and leavin some room. Either way, it will obviously be one hell of a ride.

Peace I'm Out

There's negative g's and then there's airtime. Negative g's is just when, ultimately, your body is still going up while the car is going down. You get this reguardless of how tight your restraints are because your body still feels that upward motion.

Airtime is when you actually leave your seat and hover over it. It is caused by negative g's, but you don't get it if you are stapled. Also, if you were to fall from the train, which would never happen anyway because the ops would not be dumb enough to leave someone's restraints that loose, the fall from 400 feet would be just as deadly as the fall from 100 feet.

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"If you're standing in an uncomfortable position, that means you are in the right position because you are riding Mantis!" - Mantis ride op doing spiels on closing day.

How do you figure that a 400 foot plunge is just as deadly as a 100 foot plunge?

also when you are going straight up, curling over the top hat and plunging straight down you are experiencing airtime you can expect 9 seconds of airtime

I think the point was that falling from a 400 foot coaster and cracking your skull on the midway below would be just as deadly as doing the same from a 100 foot height.

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