Dragon Khan

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Dragon Khan
Dragon Khan
Data
Location PortAventura
( Salou , Catalonia , Spain )
Type Steel - seated
model Sitting Coaster
Drive type Chain lift hill
Manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard
Designer Ingenieurbüro Stengel GmbH
opening May 2, 1995
length 1270 m
height 45 m
Departure 49 m
Max. speed 105 km / h
Travel time 1:45 min
Trains 3 trains, 7 cars / train, 1 row of seats / car, 4 seats / row of seats
elements Looping ,
dive loop ,
zero-g-roll ,
cobra-roll ,
looping,
interlocking corkscrews
Inversions 8th
Subject area China

Dragon Khan in PortAventura ( Salou , Catalonia , Spain ) is a steel roller coaster of the Sitting Coaster model of the manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard designed by the engineering office Stengel GmbH and opened on May 2, 1995.

With its eight inversions , the orbit had the most inversions in the world until 2002, before it was replaced by Colossus in Thorpe Park in 2002 . From 1998 she shared the title with “Monte Makaya” in the Brazilian “Terra Encantada” by Intamin .

journey

On the approximately 1269 m long route, after the lift hill and the first drop, passengers pass eight inversions: a loop , a dive loop , a zero-g-roll , a cobra-roll , which consists of two inversions, another loop and the interlocking corkscrews , which also consist of two inversions.

Trains

Dragon Khan owns three trains with seven cars each. Four people (one row) can be seated in each car. Shoulder straps are used as a restraint system.

photos

Web links

Commons : Dragon Khan  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 41 ° 5 ′ 16.4 "  N , 1 ° 9 ′ 39.2"  E