A bobsled roller coaster is a roller coaster that uses a track design that is essentially a "pipe" with the top half removed and has cars that are sent down this pipe in a freewheeling mode. The name derives from the great similarity to the track design used for the winter sport of bobsleigh .
3-555: Flying Turns is the name of a specific model of bobsled roller coaster . John Norman Bartlett, a British aviator in World War I , came to North America after the war with an idea for a trackless wooden chute, full of twists like a bobsled course, with toboggan -like cars, based on a bobsled ride that operated in Europe. He had filed GB Patent 279109A for the idea in 1926. Bartlett met John Miller in 1928, and they commenced building
6-597: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Bobsled roller coaster Most modern bobsled roller coasters are made of steel; however, the first bobsled coasters, known as Flying Turns , were made of wood. On October 4, 2013, after seven years of construction, Knoebels in Pennsylvania opened the world's only modern wooden Flying Turns coaster, Flying Turns . The ride was scheduled to open in 2007, but had been delayed due to dysfunctional wheels and other issues. As there were no historic plans available,
9-536: The new ride. When the ride went into production, much of the idea was the same, but the cars looks more like monoplanes , which Bartlett designed. Miller worked on the loading station, supporting structure, braking system and incline. Both the bobsled coaster and the flying turns coaster are buildable in the RollerCoaster Tycoon and Thrillville series of video games . St. Louis, Missouri This article about an amusement ride or roller coaster
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