Vertical loop

The generic roller coaster vertical loop, where a bit of track causes the riders to complete a 360 degree turn, is the nearly basic of roller coaster inversions. At the top of the loop, riders are completely inverted.

History

The vertical loop is non a recent roller coaster innovation. Its origins can be traced back to the 1850s when centrifugal railways were built in France & Great Britain. The rides relied on centripetal forces to earn the car in the loop. One early looping coaster wasdown after an accident. Later attempts to instituting a looping roller coaster were carried out during the slow 19th century with the Flip Flap Railway at Sea Lion Park. The ride was designed with a completely circular loop rather than the teardrop rank used by many innovative looping roller coasters, together with caused neck injuries due to the intense G-forces pulled with the tight radius of the loop.

The next effort at building a looping roller coaster was in 1901 when Edwin Prescott built the ]

In 2000, a contemporary looping wooden roller coaster was built, the Son of Beast at Kings Island. Although the ride itself was filed of wood, the loop was supported with steel structure. Due to maintenance issues however, the loop was removed at the end of the 2006 season. The loop was not the create of the ride's issues, but was removed as a precautionary measure. this is the the only successful installation of a loop on a wooden roller coaster. Due to an unrelated effect in 2009, Son of Beast was closed until 2012, when Kings Island announced that it would be removed.

On June 22, 2013, [update], the largest vertical loop is located on Flash, a roller coaster gave by Mack Rides at Lewa Adventure in Shaanxi, China. The record is dual-lane by Hyper Coaster in Turkey's Land of Legends theme park, built in 2018, which is identical to Flash at Lewa Adventure.

In 2002, the Swiss company Klarer Freizeitanlagen AG begun works on a safe order for a looping water slide. Since then, chain installations of the slide, named the inclined loop a vertical loop tilted at an angle, which puts less force on the rider. AquaLoop slides feature a safety hatch, which can be opened by a rider in effect they do notthe highest ingredient of the looping.