I live near Six Flags Over Georgia and used to visit occasionally. With a few exceptions, their coasters generally don’t get above 60 mph. Mindbender, for example, tops out at 50mph, but feels so ridiculously fast when you’re riding it. In a car on the highway, though, going 50 doesn’t feel like much of an event at all.
Why is this?
In: Physics
It should be noted that many modern coasters exceed 60mph, like most (if not all) giga coaster’s and hyper coasters are over 60mph. Like Goliath at Six Flags Over Georgia is 70mph, and I believe every RMC refurbish/ground up hybrid has exceeded 60mph too. (edit: A few RMC’s are bellow 60mph, and your home park actually the slowest one)
Mindbender on the other hand probably couldn’t go much faster because it’s a Schwarzkopf looping coaster, and those things hit like 5.2g’s in their loops, so it’d probably just be very painful if it went any faster.
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