I swear Intamin are trying to actually kill people, first with the out of ur seat literally airtime on the Walibi Belgium Mega Coaster and now this crazy coaster that will probably make it hard to breather at the top of the lift hill, pop your ears when rushing through the tunnel unless it features the world's biggest trim brakes, the speeds are reasonable but Six Flags are really trying to kill people with this and the airtime will crush people's thighs more than what i've heard on Skyrush! I'm not trying to be negative but it seems a bit like a pipe dream atm!It would appear that Falcon’s Flight has now begun to be designed, with Intamin being chosen to manufacture the ride: https://qiddiya.com/en/media/press-...ins-design-of-world-s-fastest-roller-coaster/
From the article, points of interest include:
My goodness; this thing sounds like it’s going to be utterly ludicrous! I can’t wait for when it opens in 2023!
- Falcon’s Flight will be the world’s tallest, fastest and longest roller coaster.
- It will travel across approximately 4km (13,123.4ft) (I assume they’re referring to a 4km track length, which would be beyond unprecedented; for reference, that’s about 61.4% longer than the current record holder, Steel Dragon 2000, which is 2.479km!)
- It will feature a “vertical cliff dive manoeuvre” into a 160m (524.9ft) deep valley using LSM technology, and will reach speeds of over 250km/h (155.3mph)
- The ride will also be the “world’s tallest free-standing coaster structure featuring a parabolic airtime hill, allowing a weightless airtime experience”.
This isn’t just a few renderings in Planet Coaster as far as I can tell; Intamin have actually been contracted to design this ride, and the whole thing is actually being funded by the Prince of Saudi Arabia as part of a project to drive up tourism to the country.Another pie in the sky thing that will never happen.
Especially considering the article states that general area groundwork has begun.This isn’t just a few renderings in Planet Coaster as far as I can tell; Intamin have actually been contracted to design this ride, and the whole thing is actually being funded by the Prince of Saudi Arabia as part of a project to drive up tourism to the country.
I’ll be the first to admit I’m wrong if it doesn’t happen, and I’m not necessarily saying that it will 100% happen by any means, but I personally think it looks legitimate, as ludicrous as the coaster might look on the face of it.
This isn’t just a few renderings in Planet Coaster as far as I can tell; Intamin have actually been contracted to design this ride, and the whole thing is actually being funded by the Prince of Saudi Arabia as part of a project to drive up tourism to the country.
I’ll be the first to admit I’m wrong if it doesn’t happen, and I’m not necessarily saying that it will 100% happen by any means, but I personally think it looks legitimate, as ludicrous as the coaster might look on the face of it.
One man, with a spade, digs a hole a foot wide, and a foot deep.Especially considering the article states that general area groundwork has begun.
Plus if it's in a huge valley, emergency access will be an issue. They'll need to have access routes in case of a stall. And even with those, evacs could take hours.Apparently it's going to have 3 launches, so given the number of launches and the speed, I think 4km sounds plausible.
https://www.themeparkinsider.com/flume/202101/7946/
Presumably it will also need the mid-ride launches to act like block sections. A ride like this will be really expensive to build and maintain and with 20 seat cars, you'd need a launch a train frequently for it to stand any chance of being viable. You'd need to launch a train every 60 seconds to get a throughput of 1,200 riders and hour. It says it has a 3 minute ride time, so there'll need to be several trains going around the track at the same time.
One of the problems with such fast roller coasters is what happens if a passenger hits an object like a bird. In the artist impressions each car has a windshield, so they've clearly thought of that. Wind is another big problem, but if it's in a valley, perhaps wind won't be such an issue compared somewhere like Cedar Point that's on the edge of a lake.