https://www.coaster101.com/2025/04/28/flip-flap-railway/ Roller coasters, theme parks and all things amusement industry Wed, 30 Apr 2025 23:57:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://www.coaster101.com/2025/04/28/flip-flap-railway/#comment-176794 Wed, 30 Apr 2025 23:57:49 +0000 https://www.coaster101.com/?p=76828#comment-176794 Excellent article Nick. What an interesting design.

]]> https://www.coaster101.com/2025/04/28/flip-flap-railway/#comment-176790 Tue, 29 Apr 2025 08:47:50 +0000 https://www.coaster101.com/?p=76828#comment-176790 This is a fantastic article, and really well researched. After you mentioned to me on LinkedIn that the Flip Flap Railway had upstop wheels I did a bit of Googling. I didn’t do the maths that you’ve done, but I also found it unlikely that it’d have hit 12g. While the clothoid loop reduces g forces, there are quite a few coasters out there where the loops look reasonably round. For example on Pinfari Zyklon coasters, and on some of the Schwarzkopf coasters the loops look relatively round, compared to something like a B&M. It seemed unlikely to me that being round would have made such a big difference. So thank you for crunching the numbers and proving it.

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