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What was your first coaster to feature airtime?

Zippin Pippin at Bay Beach Amusement Park. When I first rode it back in 2011 (the year it opened) the ejector hill near the end scared the crap out of me since this was before my enthusiast days and I genuinely thought I was going to fall out.
 
Lightning Racer at Hersheypark! Still my favorite GCI all these years later.
 
Coaster Hipster said:
Goliath at Walibi Holland was also my first big ejector camelback. Even today the first hill feels more powerful than many coasters I've ridden since! Writing that makes me want to go back to the Netherlands immediately... :p
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Gotta sign on that one. Goliath is a great rollercoaster and serves proof that height isn't everything. I wish European parks would get more Mega Lites instead of weird Gerstlauer spike coasters.
 
Do kiddy coasters count? If we're talking true, bona fide out of your seat goodness, then SheiKra would be it. After I got over my fear of coasters on Kumba, my next visit to Busch Gardens Tampa let me conquer Montu and SheiKra both in the same day. By the way this was when I used to have Busch Gardens Tampa as my homepark, which I am thankfully visiting in April after nearly 4 years of not coming back!
 
My first coaster with airtime was Thunderhead.
my first coaster built for airtime was the Steel Eel
 
A lesser known one called el toro that surprised the **** outa me when I went ****ing flying that now ranks In my top 5
 
Nicky Borrill said:
Early to mid 90s Grand National had me out of me seat. I can’t remember it having the same restraints it does now, as they did nothing. But I guess it must have, and I was just super skinny. (I was.)
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Before the fire it didn't have seat dividers and it was a single lapbar across both seats, so there was a lot more room to get flung around!

I can't remember well enough if it was Grand National or Rollercoaster at Blackpool that was my first airtime, but it was definitely one of them :D
 
I mean technically the wooden mouse at the Adelaide show was my first cred and has a bit of lift on those dips and hills at the end.

But first decent sustained airtime? Superman Escape at Movie World.
 
The first ride that had airtime would probably be Demon at Six Flags Great America. It doesn't have too much airtime but that drop is pretty damn powerful. I'm actually of the opinion that it's quite a bit stronger than Raging Bull's drop, although I do think Raging Bull's drop is better.
 
I guess technically Cheetah Hunt, since I believe that ride does have a bit of airtime. But my first airtime focused coaster would be Mako.
 
Hmm I'd have to say some of the coasters at Blackpool Pleasure Beach. Before that point, it was mainly Thorpe Park and Chessington which doesn't have as much sustained airtime.

Not going to be overly specific but I'd say Icon and The Woodies are the ones that featured the most sustained airtime there.
 
Grand National in the late 80s. Trains that suited the ride, lap bars that didn't crush your legs. Airtime on every single drop, double drop and at the top of every hill.

Absolutely the best, it's just a shame it's such an ordeal to get that same standard of ride with the current trains.

Big Dipper was next, followed the Revolution and later the RollerCoaster, when I'd worked out it was a separateride and not part of the Dipper! All of which remain my favourites at Blackpool.
 
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