Flying Turns at Knoebel's

Knoebel's Amusement Park will be resurrecting the old Flying Turns style ride by creating their own!

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Knoeble's construction update page; http://knoebels.com/update.htm

Various pictures of other 'Flying Turns';

[hyyyper]

so is this like a bobsled or something?

Everyone say thankyou to me for finding this out! Hail me as your god! [:D] or not....... [:(]

Anywayyyyyyy............

Yeah im really excited to see how this turns out. Can i just point out this will be based on the flying turns once seen at Elucid beach! YAY!

SWEET!!! I hear that flying turns are really really fun, well from coaster books anyways, but these should be good.

Originally posted by jpecool

Everyone say thankyou to me for finding this out! Hail me as your god! [:D] or not....... [:(]

Anywayyyyyyy............

Yeah im really excited to see how this turns out. Can i just point out this will be based on the flying turns once seen at Elucid beach! YAY!

[:O]

I say based, it isnt the actual layout. But they are using one of the actual cars from Elucid beach to base there cars on aswell! Just safer ones [:)]

Originally posted by jpecool

Everyone say thankyou to me for finding this out! Hail me as your god! [:D] or not....... [:(]

Uh, Dick Knoebel announced this at Phunphest. You know, last OCTOBER?

Originally posted by Thorazine

Originally posted by jpecool

Everyone say thankyou to me for finding this out! Hail me as your god! [:D] or not....... [:(]

Uh, Dick Knoebel announced this at Phunphest. You know, last OCTOBER?

He did? I was there, and all I remember is the Phoenix "ceremony". Unless the ride was announced at another time during the Phunfest, I don't see how I could've missed the announcement.

Haha this makes me laugh in the picture it looks like low paid volunteers![lol]

Meh well if he announced it ages ago who cares? They are starting construction so its worth to have a topic about it anyway.

The Mack bobsled coasters are very much like those pics of Flying Turns that I've seen. Avalanche at PKD and Avalanche at Blackpool are examples.

What will be so different about Knoebel's version?

Flying turns were constructed out of wood and did not use any means of "tracking" the trains so to speak, the track allowed the cars to freely travel through the course of the "track" with no restriction whatsoever, causing for a more adrenalistic ride. However, I suspect the Flying Turns at Knoebel's will contain some means of tracking for safety reasons, though I would assume that it will be constructed fully from wood in order to truly resemble the flying turns of the past.

isnt la vibora a flying turns coaster

[hyyyper]

^ IMO, they're all bobsleds, only this one is wood

Originally posted by e-man

Flying turns were constructed out of wood and did not use any means of "tracking"

The Mack version don't use any tracking on the actual course
http://www.rcdb.com/ig789.htm?picture=11

According to Screamscape.com, we might see Flying Turns open in the 2012 season.

A Bobsled?

[Coasterkidmwm]

Originally posted by Tetsu

According to Screamscape.com, we might see Flying Turns open in the 2012 season.

Yeah after like 25 years.

Yeah just like hoe we were supposed to see it in the 2010 season, the the 2011 season.

As far as i'm concerned, it's just a sexy lawn ornament for the park.

I won't get excited now until it actually opens.