Sky Wheel, Steel roller coaster at Skyline Park in Rammingen, Germany
Sky Wheel is a steel roller coaster at Skyline Park in Rammingen, Germany. Its track forms a 46-metre upright ring supported on one side by a tower that also serves as the lift hill. The train climbs vertically, passes through a single heartline roll from upside-down to upside-down, then descends vertically through the station.
Sky Wheel is the prototype of Maurer Rides' SkyLoop XT 150 model, built at Skyline Park in Bad Wörishofen. Planned for 2004, construction ran longer than expected and the coaster opened on 18 March 2005. In 2006 Maurer and the park received the FKF-Award 2005 for the ride.
The name Sky Wheel comes from the ride's upright ring track, which stands 46 metres tall and is held up on one side by a tower that also serves as the lift hill. The trains are X-Cars with a wide lap bar and a shaped seat, allowing riders to go upside down without shoulder restraints. The ride was honoured with the FKF-Award 2005, presented in 2006 by the Freundeskreis Kirmes und Freizeitparks.
The train has two cars with three rows of two seats, so 12 riders board each departure. The lap bar and shaped seat hold riders without shoulder restraints, and the ride reaches 5g. The lift is a vertical Humpty Bump Lift, and the train is caught by brakes halfway up the tower before a second forward run.
The seats on Sky Wheel rotate without any motor: the spinning is driven entirely by gravity and the forces generated as the train moves through the loops. This means that each ride can feel slightly different depending on how the weight of the passengers is distributed.
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