Green Lantern (Six Flags Great Adventure)

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Green Lantern
Green Lantern in April 2011

Green Lantern in April 2011

Data
Location Six Flags Great Adventure
( Jackson , New Jersey , USA )
Type Steel - standing
model Stand-up coaster
Drive type Chain lift hill
Manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard
Designer Ingenieurbüro Stengel GmbH
costs $ 12 million
opening Kentucky Kingdom: April 1997,
Great Adventure: May 2011
closure Kentucky Kingdom: 2009
length 1266 m
height 47 m
Departure 44 m
Max. gradient 45 °
Max. speed 101 km / h
Travel time 2:30 min
capacity 1556 people per hour
Trains 3 trains, 7 cars / train, 1 row of seats / car, 4 seats / row of seats
elements 37 m high loop ,
32 m high dive loop ,
22 m high inclined loop ,
2 × corkscrews
Inversions 5

Green Lantern in Six Flags Great Adventure ( Jackson , New Jersey , USA ) is a steel roller coaster model Stand-Up Coaster from the manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard , which opened in May 2011. It was originally opened as Chang in April 1997 in Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom and drove there until 2009. It was designed by the engineering company Stengel GmbH.

Chang in Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom

At the time of its opening, it was considered the highest, fastest and longest stand-up coaster in the world, also in terms of the number of inversions . It outperformed Mantis at Cedar Point , which opened a year earlier, on all counts . The Riddler's Revenge in Six Flags Magic Mountain , which opened in 1998, surpassed all Green Lantern records a year later.

Green Lantern has five inversions: a 37 m high loop , a 32 m high dive loop , a 22 m high inclined loop , and two corkscrews .

Trains

Green Lantern has three trains with seven cars each. Four people (one row of four) can be seated in each carriage. Shoulder straps are used as a restraint system.

Web links

Commons : Green Lantern (Six Flags Great Adventure)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 40 ° 8 ′ 28 "  N , 74 ° 26 ′ 32.6"  W.