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Eagle's Flight (Six Flags Great America)

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Eagle's Flight
Marriott's Great America
Location Gurnee, Illinois, USA
Status Defunct
Operated 1976 to 1984
Statistics
Manufacturer Von Roll
Product Sky Ride
Type

Eagle's Flight, also known as Delta Flyer, was a Ropeway built by Swiss manufacturer Von Roll previously located at Marriott's Great America in Gurnee, Illinois, USA. The ride would transport guests between Orleans Place and County Fair. At the end of 1984, the Delta Flyer / Eagle’s Flight was removed due to high maintenance costs. For a brief period of time, the tops of the ride's towers were cut off and had floodlights installed temporary. The ride’s station in County Fair still stands today but has since been repurposed as a funnel cake shop. Meanwhile, the station in Orleans Place was replaced with the relocated Yukon Yahoo from the park’s Yukon Territory section where it operated under the name Delta Flyer as a tribute to the fallen Sky Ride. It operated there from until 1990 and was replaced with Condor in 1991 in which that ride still resides on that spot today. One of the rides footer’s can be found between the nearby the Dippin’ Dots stand in Orleans Place and the pathway leading into the Mardi Gras section of the park. Most of the ride’s gondola’s were sent to Six Flags Great Adventure to be used as spare parts and replacement vehicles for their Skyride.


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