Olympia Looping
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| Location | Portable |
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| Type | Steel |
| Manufacturer | Anton Schwarzkopf |
| Designer | Werner Stengel |
| Lift/launch system | Drive tire lift hill |
| Height | 110 ft (34 m) |
| Drop | 99 ft (30 m) |
| Length | 4,101 ft (1,250 m) |
| Max speed | 52 mph (84 km/h) |
| Inversions | 5 |
| Duration | 1:45 |
| Max vertical angle | 52° |
| Max g-force | 5.2 |
| Height restriction | 3 ft 9 in (110 cm) |
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Olympia Looping is a portable steel roller coaster built by Anton Schwarzkopf. It is the largest portable roller coaster in the world, and the only one with 5 loops. It appears at many carnivals in Germany, most notably the Oktoberfest. Olympia Looping is named for its 5 vertical loops, which resemble the Olympic rings. Although these loops are clothoid-shaped their shape is closer to circular than the loops on most other roller coasters so they exert unusually high g-forces on the passengers (up to 5.2 g[1]). The entire structure weighs 875 tons and requires a space 85 meters wide by 36 meters deep.
[edit] References
- ^ Olympia Looping homepage (in German). Retrieved on 2007-09-10.
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