Corkscrew with Bayerncurve

Corkscrew with Bayerncurve

Status Discontinued
First manufactured 1980
No. of installations 8
Manufacturer Vekoma
Designer Arrow Dynamics
Height 23 m (75 ft)
Drop 21 m (69 ft)
Length 730 m (2,400 ft)
Speed 44 mph (71 km/h)
G force 3.1
Capacity 1100 riders per hour
Vehicles 2
Riders per vehicle 24
Duration About 1:45 minutes
Restraint Style Over-the-shoulder
Inversions 2

Corkscrew with Bayerncurve is a type of roller coaster that was manufactured by Vekoma and designed by Arrow Dynamics and was début on the 4th 1980 with Corkscrew at Alton Towers, Staffordshire, England

Ride Experience

The ride started by a slow accent of 75 ft (22m). Once it had reached the top the car went round a turn and down the 68 ft drop reaching 44 m.p.h. The train then pulled through a camel hump and a 180 degree turn before entering the two Corkscrew inversions. Once the train exited the two inversions it then went around a 180 degree turn and into some trim brakes (In the latter years the brakes wasn't need as much). After that the train went across another camel hump and in to the bayerncurve (a helix type manoeuvre) and around the perimeter of the coaster again before going into the brakes and station.

Installations

Roller Coaster Theme Park Status Opened/Closed
Corkscrew Alton Towers Closed 1980–2008
Apocalypse, previously operating at Flamingo Land as Corkscrew until 2011. Lunapark Operating 2012
Super Manège La Ronde Operating 1981
Star Mountain Beto Carrero World Operating 1991
Super Wirbel Holiday Park Closed 1979–2013
Tornado Walibi Belgium Closed 1979–2002
Corkscrew Genting Theme Park SBNO 1994–2013
Corkscrew-Devil's Flight Playland Operating 1994
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