Roller coaster: a few minutes of fear, and life was a success!

One of the most popular, extreme and breathtaking attractions is the roller coaster. This way of entertainment is not only the most insane, but also one of the most dangerous. History is not known for a single tragic event, but people do not stop it - 2 minutes of fear, and life was a success!

Excursion to the history

The name of the attraction "American roller coaster" was fixed only in the territory of the CIS countries, abroad such entertainment is called "Russian hills". This name was created on the basis of associations associated with the slope from the ice hills in Russia. The ice hill 25 meters high, built under Peter the Great, is known for its history. The roller-coaster builder took note of this system, replacing ice rajids with rails, and instead of sleigh he came up with special trailers. By the way, the first roller coaster was made not of metal, but of wood.

Now many people argue who was the first to develop the mechanism of the closed track. Someone thinks that the first roller coaster appeared in Russia in 1784, others believe that in 1812 roller coaster appeared in France. But officially this design was developed and patented in 1884 in faraway America.

Construction of slides

The world of roller coaster is huge and diverse. This is not only dizzying turns, but also water, underground slides, there are also roller coaster "on foot", roller coaster for roller and many other varieties. Progress always runs ahead, and any attraction that has worked more than five years is already considered obsolete. Therefore, slides are becoming more exciting, and construction technologies are more sophisticated.

The roller coaster is mainly mounted from steel tubular structures, which are not only strong, but also allow you to make steep turns, dizzying descents and ascents, and also to give the attraction an intricate design. Today, the highest roller coaster reaches 135 meters, and this bar increases every year!

To raise the trailers in which people are sitting, at a certain height, in the construction of the said attraction is used a chain or pneumatic-wheel drive. Therefore, when climbing, the slides creep very slowly. Having reached the maximum height, the trailers are flying down at a crazy speed. Passengers have a feeling of free fall. Now the speed of some roller coasters exceeds 220 km / h.

Steel trailers remained in the last century, today they are made of light titanium alloys, allowing to make exciting trips upside down. On trailers there are special wheels made of urethane, which allow carts to gain incredible speeds.

The best roller coasters

1. Kingda-Ka, or "The Machine of Fear", which can be found in Six Flags Great Adventure Park (USA, New Jersey). This hill is considered the highest in the world (139 meters). She is a record holder not only in height, but also in speed - 296 km / h. Most of the descents and ascents have an angle of 90 degrees. Therefore, for impressionable, this attraction is forbidden to visit.
2. The Tower of Terror, or Tower of Terror, located in Australia, is slightly different from the usual roller coaster, because it is built in the form of the letter L. People are raised to a height of 115 meters and then the tower vertically falls down, leaving a feeling of free fall.
3. American roller coaster on the water in Japan in the park CosmoWorld. The peculiarity of the attraction is that, when descending, the trailers burst with an incredible speed into the underwater tunnel. The total time to overcome the route is almost 2 minutes.
4. The Ultimate Hill in foggy England offers a ride on the world's longest track: 2276 meters you can overcome in just 5.36 minutes.
5. The state of Ohio can offer fans of extreme sports the wooden roller coaster Beast ("Beast"), where the speed of trailers reaches 100 km / h.