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Blue Hawk
Steel Looper at Six Flags Over Georgia, Austell, Georgia. Opened 1992.
- Height
- 122 ft
- Drop
- 109 ft
- Top speed
- 52 mph
- Length
- 2,740 ft
- Inversions
- 5
- Ride time
- 1 min 20 s
- Designer
- Vekoma
Blue Hawk is a steel looping roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia in Austell, Georgia. It is a custom Vekoma MK-1200 designed by Peter Clerx, with five inversions: a butterfly, a reverse sidewinder and a double corkscrew.
History
The coaster first ran as Kamikaze at a pier park in Wildwood, New Jersey, from 1989 to 1991. It opened at Six Flags Over Georgia as Ninja on March 1, 1992. After a renovation and a public vote on a new name, it reopened as Blue Hawk on June 9, 2016.
A chain lift climbs 122 feet, and the trains reach 52 mph. Each of the two trains seats 28 riders in cars with shoulder harnesses, and a ride lasts about 1 minute 20 seconds.
Sources
- sixflags.com/overgeorgia/attractions/blue-hawk (Park page: Blue Hawk, introduced 1992, Vekoma, 122-foot lift hill, more than 50 mph, five inversions, 2,100 feet of track, 48 in minimum height.)
- rcdb.com/40.htm (RCDB: operating; Vekoma custom MK-1200; designer Peter Clerx; height 122 ft; length 2,739.5 ft; 52 mph; 5 inversions (butterfly, reverse sidewinder, double corkscrew); duration 1:20; 2 trains of 28 with shoulder harnesses; former name Ninja; previously Kamikaze in Wildwood.)
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Hawk_(roller_coaster) (Kamikaze in Wildwood 1989-1991; opened at Six Flags Over Georgia as Ninja March 1, 1992; renamed Blue Hawk after a public vote, reopened June 9, 2016; drop 109 ft; length 2,742 ft; 52 mph.)
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