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SlingShot is a reverse bungee ride manufactured by Funtime and featured at several Six Flags amusement parks, including Cedar Point, Carowinds, and Canada's Wonderland. The first installation opened at Kings Island in 2002, but the park retired the ride in 2022.
The reverse bungee (also known as catapult bungee, slingshot, or ejection seat) is a modern type of fairground ride. Video of SlingShot at Cedar Point The ride consists of two telescopic gantry towers mounted on a platform, feeding two elastic ropes down to a two-person passenger car constructed from an open sphere of tubular steel.
The National Slingshot Association was founded in the 1940s, headquartered in San Marino, California. It organised slingshot clubs and competitions nationwide. Despite the slingshot's reputation as a tool of juvenile delinquents, the NSA reported that 80% of slingshot sales were to men over 30 years old, many of them professionals.
Plymouth Slingshot: 1988: 2-seater coupé: 2.2L 225 hp turbocharged Straight-four engine: Canopy that swings upwards to open the car Adjustable four-wheel independent suspension Keyless credit card-like entry Combined headlight and rear-view mirror pods Exposed engine and suspension Plymouth Speedster: 1989: 2-seater convertible
SlingShot: 2002 2021 Funtime: Pay-per-ride reverse bungee attraction that catapults riders, seated in a steel cage, 275 feet (84 m) into the air up to 100 mph (160 km/h). Riders flip multiple times before returning slowly to the platform. Its removal was announced during the 2022 season. [56] In 2023 Cargo Loco replaced this ride.
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The Slingshot 1100K sold in shops suffered handling problems: either as a result of changed geometry or that it was the suspension units that were improperly set up. Whatever it was, the standard bike was considered hard to handle and many modern magazines went as far as to advice buyers to avoid the "K" model (some even calling that year's ...