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"Rollercoaster fans - BBC1 NOW!"

New record-breaking 10-loop coaster!

http://air.atdatabase.co.uk/

Quite a good site. A lot of images. Especially if you click on those dates, it has a lot of images on the "October 2001" link.

I'm also downloading a movie from there it says:
"Central got a preview flight along with a local school. The video footage of the ride is pretty great but if you end up hating the tv reporter and kids don't b supurised.
I'm sure this video of the presenter will go down into 'It shouldn't happen to a tv reporter' archives.
But anyway enjoy and I just can't get enough of the trains moving into flying position!"

I think its best to right click, and press "save as" and download it. I'm only on 16% so when its finished, I will report about it. (If the download works!)

I bet some lucky broadband owner will get there first! :D

On the picture whats happened to the kid in the middle seats on the left - has his head come off?

Cool ride!!

Vib

I love rollercoasters. I think Nemisis and Oblivion are fantastic rides personally. Also, Drayton Manor has some top quality rides such as Shockwave, Klondike Goldmine and also, I have never been on a water ride that is better than the Stormforce 10.

Air looks absolutely amazing. I will hopefully be going on it in the easter holidays so I'll let you all know how good/brilliant it is :).

For all those people who are yet to see Air:-

http://www.towersalmanac.com/ features/air/constructionsite/airconstruction.html

Fair few images of Alton Towers' new ride.

Anyone been to Cedar point in Ohio? The Mantis and the magnum rides are really cool, so is the gemini ride.

Thanks for uploading that Tom, but we are still yet to see a really decent picture of the ride, because we can still very little of the ride, and no real action shots or shots of the entire ride (framework). Doesn't really bother me, so feck it :0)

Thanks for uploading that Tom, but we are still yet to see a really decent picture of the ride, because we can still very little of the ride, and no real action shots or shots of the entire ride (framework). Doesn't really bother me, so feck it :0)

I haven't been to a wholely commercial theme park since I was 4 or 5. I go to Peter Pan's Adventure Island though, which makes up for that times over! It used to have a ride called the Barracuda - superb! There are two compartments that fly up to about 40-50ft (after 4 planned 'attempts' to get you nervous) and then it spins all the way around, landing back to the original place. It then does that, but flies backwards! :0)

Here you go:

http://www.geocities.com/tomthorpe2001/air.bmp

Like I said, its in b+w. It may take a few mins to load if you're using 56k. But like I said, I couldn't find my program. I had to slightly comparmise quality so that I could upload it with my 56k modem. But its still better than you'll ever get until the ride actually opens on saturday.

Enjoy!

Its gonna be 1mb. Sorry, I couldn't find my program to make it into a jpg. It shouldn't take that long to download.

RìÇkø§$ wrote:
> I think they're great just have two problems.

I agree, they are short - but it's a hell of a buzz.

All coasters are over in 2 minutes or less though - it's a deliberate design 'feature' to maximise throughput.