Olympia looping
| Olympia looping | |
|---|---|
Olympic Looping in Düren (2004) |
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| Data | |
| Type | Steel - seated |
| category | Looping roller coaster |
| Drive type | Friction wheels |
| Manufacturer | Bras |
| Designer | Ingenieurbüro Stengel GmbH |
| opening | 1989 |
| length | 1250 m |
| height | Total: 38.5 m track: 32.5 m |
| Dimensions | 86.5 x 38.5 m² |
| Max. gradient | 52 ° |
| Max. Bank | 89.3 ° |
| Max. speed | approx. 80 km / h |
| Max. acceleration | 5.2 g |
| Travel time | 2:20 min (total) / lift to brake 1:09 min |
| capacity | 3,000 people per hour |
| Trains | 5 trains, 5 or 7 cars / train, 2 rows of seats / car, 2 seats / row of seats |
| Inversions | 5 × looping |
Olympia Looping (also known as Fünfer Looping ) is the name of the world's first transportable roller coaster with five looping , which opened at the Munich Oktoberfest in 1989 and which, with a length of 1250 meters, is also the largest transportable roller coaster in the world.
Based on the calculations of the Stengel engineering office , the BHS-Bayerische Berg-, Hütten- und Salzwerke in the Peißenberg plant, together with the design office Anton Schwarzkopfs and Zierer Rides, built the track for the showman Rudolf Barth. The route has a height of 32.5 meters - including the loops - a total length of approx. 1250 meters, on which the vehicles reach speeds of a maximum of approx. 80 km / h (according to the showman up to 100 km / h) and accelerations of up to 5.2 g act on the passengers. The total weight of the steel structure is 900 tons and the space required to set it up is 86.5 meters wide and 38.5 meters deep. The diameters of the loops are 20, 14 and 12 meters.
Up to 5 trains run simultaneously on the circuit, which, depending on the venue, consist of 5 or 7 cars (7 only at the Oktoberfest in Munich and the Winter Wonderland in London), each with space for 4 people (20 or 28 passengers per Train). How many trains run on the route and how many cars they consist of depends on the number of expected passengers at the respective venue.
The roller coaster was in the Wiener Wurstelprater for the first time in the 2016 season and was brought back to Munich for the Oktoberfest.
In 2018, a modern LED lighting system was installed (including a lift and loopings). In 2019, permanent magnets were installed as a low-noise magnetic brake as the final brake.
Olympia Looping at Oktoberfest (2005)
Olympia Looping in Bonn on the Pützchens Markt (2007)
Olympia Looping at the Cranger Kirmes (2009)
Web links
- The Olympic Looping. The largest transportable 5-person loop in the world. In: olympialooping.de, the showman's website - with dates and locations
- Data and photos. In: schwarzkopf-coaster.net
- The “Olympia Looping” roller coaster. In: essen-ist-verbind.de (Olympia Looping at the Cranger Kirmes)
- Olympia Looping - five times upside down. In: coastersandmore.de
- The world's largest transportable roller coaster is celebrating its 30th birthday at Oktoberfest. In: presseportal.de, September 27, 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ New in the Prater: roller coaster with five loops. In: wien.orf.at. ORF , March 13, 2016, accessed on November 24, 2017 .
- ↑ Thomas Frank: Olympia Looping will be a guest at the Vienna Prater in 2016 - return only to the Oktoberfest in Munich. In: parkerlebnis.de, March 8, 2016, accessed on January 21, 2020.