"Huracan" - Eurofighter for Belantis, Germany

[Anonymous]

Yeah it really looks weird, much like the one on Hydra.

I think that the F1 park got put on hold, so they stopped every deliveries etc. which is why Belantis could buy and take delivery of this coaster on such short notice.

 

[Brookes]

Woah, the shaping is quite weird on this. The cobra and zero-g look a bit strange from that photo. The tiny hill after the cobra roll looks crazy though with the speed it will have.

 

[ECG]

A new record erecting a major coaster as the entire track (260 tons of steel with a total of 55,000 individual pieces) was put up in just 12 days. Impressive!
Source (in German): http://onride.de/viewtopic.php?t=58464

 

[Tony]

If it hasn't been mentioned already the name is "Huracan".

Some recent enough pictures can be found here. The station seems to have some nice theming to it:

http://onride.de/viewtopic.php?t=57476&start=200

 

[Anonymous]

Looks interesting

 

[gerstlauer]

Picture of the new Euro-fighter cars, with 3 rows of seating
http://www.belantis-board.de/index.php?page=Attachment&attachmentID=2336

And an offride video of it testing.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFPUa3eRuYQ[/youtube]

 

[CMonster]

That looks pretty awesome.

I wished I didn't live an ocean away...

EDIT: Oh, wow, post # 1000!

Although, I kinda wish it was more exciting than what I posted.

 

[Jared]

I think the reason that the Cobra Roll has such odd track shaping is for those longer trains. Because those trains don't have anywhere near the manoeuvrability that the normal Eurofighter cars have.

 

[mikkey]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_H_OXYNbxc[/youtube]

 

[jjjjustin]

There is a weird squeaking noise at 1:18 and that airtime hill looks painful.

 

[Hixee]

^I'm assuming that it's just the angle that makes that little bunny hill look odd. The train is travelling straight towards the camera, so I don't really think you get much sense of how it rides. If you look at the previous video it doesn't look bad at all really.

As for the squeaking, I'd imagine it's just some bearing, washer or something 'bedding-in' if you like. Either the noise will go when the train 'softens' up a bit, or they'll grease everything up once they know the ride is all good. Just my guess anyway.

 

[marc]

Every single one I have been on makes that sound.

 

[Jer]

what is the point of using those different trains? what was wrong with the old ones? They hold 2 less than the old ones so even if you run the same amount of trains that the older models did than in theory you'll get a lower capacity.