Flyer Comet, Wooden roller coaster at Whalom Park in Lunenburg, Massachusetts.
Flyer Comet was a wooden roller coaster at Whalom Park in Lunenburg, Massachusetts, featuring a winding track with moderate height and turns. The ride had a traditional out-and-back layout with airtime hills and curves that created motion throughout the journey.
After a hurricane destroyed another ride at the park in 1938, the Flyer Comet was built in 1940 using components from its predecessor. The ride operated for nearly six decades until its closure in 2000, making it a long-standing feature of the amusement park.
The entrance displayed space-themed decorations that evolved over the decades, and the addition of a dark tunnel in 1990 reflected the park's focus on modern attractions. This design choice showed what visitors found exciting during that era.
The site terrain is relatively flat and easy to walk around, with some remnants of the track structure still traceable on the ground. You can follow the general outline of the former ride's path if you visit the area where it once stood.
The ride was built from recycled components of a ride destroyed just two years earlier, making it an unusual example of salvage engineering in amusement park construction. This reuse of materials was pragmatic and not a common practice at the time.
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