Stunt Pilot, Steel roller coaster at Silverwood Theme Park, Idaho, US
Stunt Pilot is a single-rail steel coaster whose track runs along one 15.5-inch-thick rail. A 105-foot chain lift leads into an 87-degree drop reaching 52 mph, then a dive loop, airtime hill, banked turnaround, hairpin, cutback, corkscrew and over-banked finale. Trains seat ten riders in single rows.
The coaster opened in 2021 on the grounds of the former Henley Aerodrome, where aviation shows ran from 1988 to 1996. The site was transformed from an active airfield into a ride attraction that continues the location's flight heritage.
The ride's stunt-pilot theme recalls the daily air shows held at Silverwood from 1988 to 1996, staged on the former Henley Aerodrome airfield where the park now stands. The shows ended after a fatal crash at Fairchild Air Force Base on September 15, 1996. The name and aerobatics imagery keep that chapter of the park's past visible to riders.
Riders sit one per row in ten-passenger trains, so each cycle carries only ten people. The 105-foot chain lift leads straight into an 87-degree drop reaching 52 mph. The coaster stands at Silverwood Theme Park in Athol, Idaho, about 20 minutes north of Rocky Mountain Construction's Hayden headquarters.
Stunt Pilot's trains carry ten riders in ten rows, one per row, while the similar Raptor coasters RailBlazer and Wonder Woman Golden Lasso Coaster seat only eight. The single rail the train runs on is 15.5 inches thick. Rocky Mountain Construction, based in Hayden, Idaho, had earlier tested its prototype topper track on nearly 700 feet of Silverwood's Tremors in 2010.
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