Flip Flap Railway
Roller coaster in the United States
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| Designer / calculations | Lina Beecher | ||||||||
| Type | Wooden | ||||||||
| Inversions | 1 | ||||||||
| G-Force | 12 | ||||||||
Flip Flap Railway was a wooden roller coaster located at Paul Boyton's Sea Lion Park in Brooklyn, New York, USA.[1]
Flip Flap Railway was built at Sea Lion Park in 1895. The ride was developed by Lina Beecher and had a single vertical loop. At 25 foot in diameter, the loop was too small and too circular and thus subjected riders to dangerous levels of g-force. It reportedly snapped riders' necks. The ride had been dismantled by 1903, when the park was redeveloped into Luna Park.[2]
The ride was the first looping coaster since the 1840s and it sparked a renewed interest in looping coasters.[2]
References
- ↑ Mangels, William F. (1952). The Outdoor Amusement Industry. New York, NY: Vantage Press. ISBN 0848820029.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Cartmell, Robert (1989). The Incredible Scream Machine: A history of the Roller Coaster. University of Wisconsin Press. p. 86. ISBN 0-87972-342-4.
External links
- Flip Flap Railway on the Roller Coaster DataBase.
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