Who IS Mean Streak Henry?

Yeah, "dead weight" simply refers to to using volunteers as mass to keep the last few trains from rolling back. Nothing to do with handicapped people. In fact, most of the people who do it aren't handicapped (and if somebody was handicapped, that would, of course, have no bearing on the name.)

TTD functions best with a full train of passengers. When the TTD entrance closes at park closing time,sometimes there are not enough people on the platform to run all the way to the last train of the day with full trains. Some of the people unboarding a train that just run AND because the TTD entrance has closed will go to and out the exit and wait there hoping to be called for 'fillers'. The term dead weight is not by the park or TTD employees.

That is not the way I understood the answer to Go Intamin's question. Sorry if I upset anyone.

Go back to your safe space now, and it'll be ok :)

Dennis Urban said:

TTD functions best with a full train of passengers. When the TTD entrance closes at park closing time,sometimes there are not enough people on the platform to run all the way to the last train of the day with full trains.

If it can run with non-full trains in the mornings why can't it run non-full trains at night?

The computers use date from the last launch. This would mean the launch being much stronger if there's a full train followed by a half empty train.

^that would be awesome! Like May 3rd 2003 awesome! -ejector top hat.

I thought it was the average of the last 3 launches

^That seems like it would be more reasonable to prevent one unusually light or heavy train from borking up the next launch (going too slow or uncomfortably fast), but still, if all of the last 3 launches were full, it'd launch a light train too fast.

On another note, does anybody know the range of speeds TTD typically really launches at? I seem to recall it saying "121" or so when they had the speedometer at the hydraulic building. Is it 120-124? 118-122?

What's the fastest that it has ever launched for testing? I've seen a video somewhere of xCelerator testing at over 100mph, obviously an extremely unsafe operating mode. What could TTD hit? 140?

(I think I might start a new thread about this, actually.)

I thought I remembered hearing either 108 or 118 for Xcelerator, and something like 135 for Dragster. I don't remember where I heard this, as it was more than 10 years ago.

We sat in the row in front of Henry & his friend Tuesday evening on Magnum. He seemed healthy, no cain, walker, wheelchair. Very nice, friendly man,

Nice to hear he is back again this year!

Ride on!

"Knowing this makes me whole again"