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El Loco Indoor Roller Coaster
El Loco
The Indoor Roller Coaster
Jump #2
Advanced Carts
Jumps
- Seats getting safer as time goes on
- Cart design on El Loco identical to many already existing
Jump #6
Advanced Carts
Features Continued
- 4 person carts
- 2 in front 2 in back
- Speakers built in
- Seat belts/restraints
- Gravity-defying action
- Barrel rolls
- Reverse 240 degree roll into another drop
Features
Launch Coasters
One of a Kind
- top speed of 45 mph
- 1300 feet of yellow track
- 72 Seconds long
- 90 ft drop to start
- 6 other Coasters like it in:
- Australia
- France
- China
- the United Kingdom
- Indiana.)
- Only El Loco coaster indoors
Jump #1
Steel Design
- Steel cables instead of chains to pull uphill
- 0 to 200 km/hr in 4 secs
Jump #8
Jump #9
Future
Innovative Indoor Roller coaster opens
Electromagnetic Power
- Provides a smooth ride
- Used in many modern coasters
- Would be used as launch mechanisms
- Create magnetic waves to push carts down tracks at extreme speeds
- Hold carts to the track
- Predicted to use electromagnetic power
- Death defying drops
- Sophisticated Carts
- Extreme Speeds
Jump #10
Engineering
Jump #5
Loops
- Design the layout and performance of coasters
- Fewer than 3 dozen roller-coaster design companies
- Should get a mechanical engineering degree
Jump #4
- Passenger Acc. pushes them away from the car, while their inertia pushes them into the car floor
- Creates false gravity
- Most loops don't need restraints to hold passengers in
Forces
Jump #3
Jump #7
Indoor Coasters
- Acceleration: slows you down and speeds you up
- Gravity: always pulling you down
Safety
- Indoor roller coasters are becoming more common.
- Biggest pro is no weather
- Almost no cons
- Going too fast on a coaster can allow gravity to stop the flow of blood to the brain and eyes, which can cause temporary blindness and blackouts
- Computer-Aided Design (CAD): used by professionals to keep coasters safe
Bibliography
Alexandra Bunn
Engineering 1
6th Period
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