How to design a rollercoaster – with Brendan Walker
Ri Science Podcast
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Rage is a Eurofighter style ride made by a company in Germany called Gerschlauer. It was designed by an engineer, Vernish Dengel, who's now in his 80s. He looked at various sites that required roller coasters and said: 'If it's a very small plot of land, what we need to do is just throw loads of roller coasters into this' The first inverting loop appeared in the 19th century on Coney Island’s flip flap centrifugal railway. People were coming off that ride experiencing very severe whiplash. There were nurses permanently stationed on that ride towards the end of its life.
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