Corkscrew (element)

A corkscrew is an inversion that resembles a vertical loop that has been stretched so that the entrance and exit points are a distance away from each other. The riders are inverted at a point angled 90° horizontally from the incoming track. The first roller coasters with a double corkscrew element opened in 1975. Singular corkscrews did not appear until 1981. A handful of triple corkscrew elements also exist.

History

Arrow Dynamics was the first company to build a roller coaster with a corkscrew. Four of Arrow's corkscrew roller coasters opened in 1975.

The first wooden roller coaster with a corkscrew was Hades 360, which reopened in 2013 after having the inversion added.

Up until 2014, Fantasia Special has remained the only roller coaster in the world to have a triple corkscrew. Chinese company Zhipao introduced two roller coasters featuring a triple corkscrew circa 2014.^[1]^[2]

References

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Inverting	Banana roll Barrel roll downdrop Batwing Bowtie Butterfly Cobra loop Cobra roll Corkscrew Cutback Demonic knot Dive drop Dive loop Diving turn Dog tongue Double inverting dive loop Double inverting stall Drachen fire dive drop Finnish loop Fly to lie / Lie to fly Flying snake dive Heartline roll Immelmann Inclined dive loop Inclined loop In-line twist Interlocking corkscrews Interlocking loops Lagoon roll Negative-g stall loop Norwegian loop Over-banked inversion Pretzel knot Pretzel loop Raven turn Reverse cobra roll Reverse sidewinder Roll out Roll over Rollover camelback Saxophone Scorpion tail Sea serpent Sidewinder SkyLoop Step-up under flip Tongue Top-Gun stall Twisted horseshoe roll Twisted in-line rollback Vertical loop Wraparound corkscrew Zero-g roll Zero-g stall Zero-g winder
Non-inverting	Dark/Show section Double down Hairpin dive Hairpin turn Hammerhead turn Helix High five Hill Horseshoe Jr. Scorpion tail Kickflip Non inverting cobra roll Non inverting loop Octopus arm Outward banked airtime hill Over-banked curve Over-banked pretzel knot Pretzel curve Splashdown Splash effect Splash track Stengel dive Switch track Tilt section Trick track Triple dip Tunnel Turntable Twisted dive Twisted top hat Vertical drop track Vertical rollback Vertical spiral Wagon wheel Water brakes Wave turn Windcatcher tower
Variable	Jr. Immelmann Top hat

[1] New Triple Corkscrew Coaster Appears In China. - Vertical Horizons (Wayback Archive)

[2] China Adds Second Triple Corkscrew Coaster. - Vertical Horizons

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