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VGplay Splash Landing User is Offline Joined: 03 Jul 2007 Posts: 125 Location: Akron, Ohio	Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 2:04 pm    Post subject: 1952 Side Friction Double Looping Coaster · Quote Someone showed this on Theme Park Review and its too cool to share. It is a video of a double looping side friction coaster and its dated 1952. Notice just the cage over the riders. Centrifugal force is all there is to hold both the car on the track and the riders in their seats. http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=81877
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coasterdad Site Admin User is Offline Joined: 01 Jul 2007 Posts: 2158	Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 4:35 pm    Post subject: · Quote Great find VGplay, I know I have seen some single loopers from the 20's but this sit eh first Ive seen that one. So Geauga Lakes wasn't the first double looping coaster! All I can say is OUCH! _________________ GL's demise was caused by one mans foolish greed. In the end the truth will come out as it always does.
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hookyboysb Beaver Land Mine Ride User is Offline Joined: 15 Aug 2009 Posts: 34	Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 7:31 pm    Post subject: · Quote That looks like it would hurt more than SoB and MS combined!
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VGplay Splash Landing User is Offline Joined: 03 Jul 2007 Posts: 125 Location: Akron, Ohio	Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 9:22 pm    Post subject: · Quote Yeah, watch the people's heads when they enter the loops. Thank you Anton Schwarzkopf and Ron Toomer.
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Geaugafan95 Beaver Land Mine Ride User is Offline Joined: 14 Mar 2009 Posts: 20	Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 11:16 pm    Post subject: · Quote Wow, that is interesting about that coaster. The bad thing is the incredible G-Forces on those earlier wooden loopers they can be 4 times more intense than the Space Shuttle taking off! thats is basically over 12 Gs!! That force can easily can break your neck! _________________ well my favorite summer hangout is gone for 2 years now. but i stil like to go to parks like cedar point though the corporate idiot running it closed GL
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