AJA06
Student
- Jan 19, 2022
- 1
I'm breaking down a component from the stealth roller coaster (below are its specs) and have chosen its hydraulic launch system.
According to Wikipedia, Stealth is a launched roller coaster built and designed by Intamin of Switzerland, the company responsible for inventing the river rapids ride and marketing the first Freefall. It cost Thorpe Park a sum of roughly £12 million.
It was designed by Ingenieurbüro Stengel GmbH- a German engineering company based in Munich, and opened on the 15th of March in 2006. When Stealth opened in 2006, it was the fastest and tallest launch coaster in all of Europe until its dethroning in the latter category by The Big One in Blackpool.
Stealth is 62.5 meters high, and measures 400 meters in length. It utilises a hydraulic launch system in order to achieve a vertical angle of 90o and is arranged in a set of three trains with five cars per train. Riders are arranged two across in two rows for a total of 20 riders per train.
Does anyone here have any information on hydraulic launch systems i.e. Their own components, what specialist companies make them, the materials they are composed of, comparisons between other systems, etc.?
It would be a great help.
According to Wikipedia, Stealth is a launched roller coaster built and designed by Intamin of Switzerland, the company responsible for inventing the river rapids ride and marketing the first Freefall. It cost Thorpe Park a sum of roughly £12 million.
It was designed by Ingenieurbüro Stengel GmbH- a German engineering company based in Munich, and opened on the 15th of March in 2006. When Stealth opened in 2006, it was the fastest and tallest launch coaster in all of Europe until its dethroning in the latter category by The Big One in Blackpool.
Stealth is 62.5 meters high, and measures 400 meters in length. It utilises a hydraulic launch system in order to achieve a vertical angle of 90o and is arranged in a set of three trains with five cars per train. Riders are arranged two across in two rows for a total of 20 riders per train.
Does anyone here have any information on hydraulic launch systems i.e. Their own components, what specialist companies make them, the materials they are composed of, comparisons between other systems, etc.?
It would be a great help.
