![]() Vild Svinet at BonBon-Land (Holme-Olstrup, Denmark) featured an out, and back layout and Gerstlauer experimented with many styles of designs. That ride will be featured in a future article.įlex shot this picture of the new open lap bar car on Iron Shark. One of the highly themed train on Untamed at Canobie Lake Park. This gave passengers an additional feeling of liberty. Using the same four abreast vehicles that previous Eurofighter featured, the hydraulic restraint system was moved under the car and new comfortable T-shaped lap bars restraint riders. In 2012, Iron Shark at the Galveston Island Historic Pleasure Pier (Texas) premiered a new style of car. A hydraulic shoulder restraint initially restrained guests Equipped with a position sensor to make sure it was lowered to a safe point to restrain riders. Gerstlauer design team is quite imaginative and has come up with incredible fiberglass designs for each client. In reality, it consists of two individual rows that are capable of twisting and pitching. The unique ride vehicle appears to consist of two rows in a solid fiberglass frame. The lift hill on Vild Svinet courtesy of Flex. ![]() This ended up becoming the signature element of the ride. The drop has a very tight shape as Vild Svinet is 72 feet tall and that was not a lot of height to design a traditional drop. The lift hill is equipped with a small elevator, and this is used by both maintenance personnel to inspect the lift and operational staff to evacuate a stalled train. Once at the top, it pushes the vehicle into the beyond vertical drop. ![]() The lift hill accelerates and takes the train up at a 90 ninety degrees angle. This in turns holds the car in place as the chain slowly rotates and the pusher smoothly engages the T-shaped attachment. When the train approaches the lift hill, pusher tires push it into the base of the lift hill, and you can hear the anti-rollbacks engaging. Using the Schwarzkopf lift as an inspiration, Gerstlauer designed a T-shaped piece that went under the Eurofighter car. One benefit is that even if the chain extends into the station, you can still have a train enter the station while it is running since the other pusher sled can’t engage it. Two sleds are attached at opposite ends of the chain, and one of those engages an adaptor mounted on the train and pushed the train up the lift hill. Instead of using chain dogs mounted on the train that then engage a chain, a wheeled sled is mounted on the chain. Starting in 1978 for the Looping Star and then the Doppel Looping and Silver Arrow models, to eliminate the pusher tires or lift chain inside the station, Schwarzkopf invented a new lift method. This then allowed compact layouts and rapid-fire pacing.įor the lift hill, Gerstlauer went back to an original Schwarzkopf invention. This was the first time a roller coaster drop went beyond vertical and unique cars were require to navigate the tight lift hill and first drop structure. The Eurofighter would use a steep 90-degree lift hill, and the original models started with a 97 degrees drop. Using the momentum of Bobsled Coaster and Junior Coaster, Gerstlauer created the Eurofighter. The model line was called the “Bobsled,” and it attracted a lot of interests, and amazingly, 20 years after the debut of G’Sengte Sau, two new Bobsled coasters will open in 2018. The car style was revolutionary with an open front and comfortable individual U-shaped lap bars. Located at Erlebnispark Tripsdrill in Cleebronn, Germany, this was a new style of roller coaster which used four passenger cars, and the layout combined steep drops, wild mouse style hairpin turns and smooth spirals. ![]() In 1998, Gerstlauer premiered their first stand-alone roller coaster, G’Sengte Sau. Our friend Flex provided us with this picture of Hollenblitz, the current name of the transportable spinning coaster Gerstlauer worked on. Hydre de Lerne at the Parc Asterix in Plailly, France. They provided components for a transportable roller coaster in Germany and produced some spinning attractions, like the Polyp and Dancing Pavilion.ĭancing Pavilion at Holiday Park in Germany. After the dissolution of Schwarzkopf rides, Hubert Gerstlauer purchased part of the Schwarzkopf factory and started designing rides on their name. He founded his own company, Gerstlauer Elektro GmbH, in 1982 and kept supplying electrical and pneumatic components to Schwarzkopf. Hubert Gerstlauer was an employee of legendary ride designer Anton Schwarzkopf ride’s company in Munsterhausen, Germany.
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