Yukon Striker is THE 'dive coaster' to try
Climb to the top and then fall to the bottom. It might well sound like a dramatic description of a life stage, but what we are talking about is a roller coaster. good of the roller coaster, the one who just won the title the tallest, the fastest and the longest in the world in its category: the dive coaster , those that are characterized by a completely vertical fall.
Yukon Striker , the name given to this dive coaster, has recently opened its doors, on May 3 to be precise, at the amusement park Canada's Wonderland , located about 30 kilometers north of Toronto .
75 meters of free fall and a 360 degree looping
circle to 130km/h on a steel track 1,105 meters in length and reaches up to 75 meters high, from where he stars in a vertical fall that ends up passing at high speed through an underground tunnel.
And yes, like any self-respecting dive coaster, just before starting to fall it activates its brakes, leaving the passengers suspended in the air for 3 seconds so they can get used to what is coming their way. Adrenaline in vein!
If you are an expert in these matters, you will probably already be intuiting that the Yukon Striker seats they have no ground, so the journey is made with your feet in the air and the void below you.
The dive coaster has three trains with capacity for 24 passengers each , arranged in three rows of eight seats each. As a finishing touch, the 3’.25” The duration of the tour includes a 360 degree looping.
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