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| Manufacturer | Intamin | ||||||||||||
| Product | Accelerator Coaster | ||||||||||||
| Designer / calculations | Ing.-Büro Stengel GmbH | ||||||||||||
| Type | Steel - Launched | ||||||||||||
| Riders per train | 20 | ||||||||||||
| Propulsion | Hydraulic launch | ||||||||||||
| Height | 21 metres | ||||||||||||
| Top speed | 98.3 km/h | ||||||||||||
| Length | 640 metres | ||||||||||||
| Inversions | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Duration | 0:25 | ||||||||||||
| G-Force | 4.7 | ||||||||||||
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Rita (originally known as Rita: Queen of Speed) is a steel launched roller coaster located at Alton Towers in Alton, Staffordshire, England, UK. It was manufactured by Intamin and opened on 1 April 2005. Two years after the opening of Rita, Heide Park in Germany (also owned by Merlin Entertainments) opened a nearly identical roller coaster called Desert Race.[1]
History
The ride first opened on 1 April 2005 as Rita: Queen of Speed. It was built at a cost of £8 million.[2]
In 2010, the ride would be rethemed as part of the new Dark Forest area.
Design
Following the launch track is a series of curves shaped like a figure-eight when viewed overhead, which contains three airtime hills. Rita has separate areas for loading and unloading.
Trains
5 cars per train. Riders are arranged 2 across in 2 rows for a total of 20 riders per train.
Incident
The cable used to launch the train snapped during an early morning test run on 24 July 2012.[3] Rita reopened shortly after with additional scaffolding to cover the path underneath the launch track.
Images
The launch track in 2008
Rita's launch track after the 2010 retheme
The entrance in 2008
Rita with Corkscrew in the background
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References
- ↑ "Offizielle Desert Race Eröffnung". Heide-Park-world.de. https://www.heide-park-world.de/de/baublog/blog/saison-2009-2000/saison-2007/desert-race/1391-offizielle-desert-race-eroeffnung.
- ↑ Bray, Elisa (2005-03-28). "Hold on to your lunch: 'Rita' is fastest roller yet". The Independent. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/hold-on-to-your-lunch-rita-is-fastest-roller-yet-5350254.html. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
- ↑ Rita roller coaster closed at Alton Towers after launch cable snaps - Theme Park Tourist
External links
- Rita on the Roller Coaster DataBase.
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