Suspended Roller Coaster
This suspended roller coaster was an attempt to create a simple operational
figure-eight mechanism based on a suspended, wheeled vehicle and without
resorting to using tubing for the coaster track. A fair amount of difficulty
was encountered in designing a wheeled car with enough "give" to negotiate
45-degree turns in the flat track. At the same time, the car had to be split to
allow passage through vertical track supports. Alternatively, the top of the
car could be split, but this could require more rigidity in the car than is
feasible for this type of geometric track.
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