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  2. Cheetah Hunt - Wikipedia

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    The roller coaster reaches a height of 102 feet (31 m), with a maximum speed of 60 miles per hour (97 km/h) and a total track length of 4,429 feet (1,350 m). Cheetah Hunt is located in the Edge of Africa section of the park and navigates through the Serengeti Plain section.

  3. g-force - Wikipedia

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    The Superman: Escape from Krypton roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain provides 6.5 seconds of ballistic weightlessness. An accelerometer , in its simplest form, is a damped mass on the end of a spring, with some way of measuring how far the mass has moved on the spring in a particular direction, called an 'axis'.

  4. List of roller coaster rankings - Wikipedia

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    Formula Rossa, the world's fastest roller coaster. Roller coasters are amusement rides developed for amusement parks and modern theme parks. Early iterations during the 16th and 17th centuries, which were popular in Russia, were wooden sleds that took riders down large slides made from ice. The first roller coasters that attached a train to a ...

  5. Roller coaster - Wikipedia

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    The Scenic Railway at Luna Park, Melbourne, is the world's oldest operating roller coaster, built in 1912.. A roller coaster is a type of amusement ride employing a form of elevated railroad track that carries passengers on a train through tight turns, steep slopes, and other elements usually designed to produce a thrilling experience.

  6. Air time (rides) - Wikipedia

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    A camelback hill is a common way of achieving air-time on a roller coaster. In the context of amusement rides, air time, or airtime, refers to the time during which riders of a rollercoaster or other ride experience either frictionless or negative G-forces. [1]

  7. Are you too old to ride a roller coaster?

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    Roller coasters are a lot of fun at any age, but you need to be able to handle it physically. ... Gift cards that make good last-minute gifts, done and dusted. AOL. AOL reviewed: The Wonder Oven ...

  8. Millennium Force - Wikipedia

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    The planning, design and development phases of Millennium Force took place over five years, from 1996 to 2000. [4] The first rumors that a new record-breaking roller coaster would be built at Cedar Point, which included speculation about a ten-inversion roller coaster from Bolliger & Mabillard and an Arrow Dynamics MegaLooper, began circulating in early 1998.

  9. Temperature roller coaster; 'Game of chance' for showers in ...

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    Conditions in the northeastern United States will be like an atmospheric amusement park with a bit of a temperature roller coaster and a game of chance for showers to break the dry streak, as the ...