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

One of the most popular, extreme andbreathtaking rides are considered roller coasters. This way of entertainment is not only the most insane, but also one of the most dangerous. The history is known not one tragic case, 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 first developedmechanism of a closed track. Someone thinks that the first roller coaster appeared in Russia in 1784, while others believe that in 1812 roller coaster appeared in France. But an officially similar design was developed and patented in 1884 in faraway America.

Construction of slides

The world of roller coasters is huge and diverse.It 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 mostly mounted fromsteel tubular structures that 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, the construction of the said attraction uses a chain or a pneumatic-wheel drive.

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

The best roller coaster

1. Kingda-Ka, or "The Machine of Fear", which can befind in the park Six Flags Great Adventure (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 descents and ascents have an angle of 90 degrees. Therefore, for impressionable, this attraction is forbidden to visit.
2. "Tower of Fear", 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 parkCosmoWorld. The peculiarity of the attraction is that at the descent 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.