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Diamondback
Steel Launched at Six Flags Frontier City, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Opened 1994.
- Height
- 56 ft
- Drop
- 47 ft
- Top speed
- 45 mph
- Length
- 635 ft
- Inversions
- 1
- Ride time
- 1 min 6 s
- Designer
- Arrow Dynamics
Diamondback is a launched shuttle roller coaster at Frontier City in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It is an Arrow Dynamics Launched Loop: an electric winch launch sends the train forward through a vertical loop, and the train then runs the course again backward.
History
The ride first operated at Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey from 1978 as one of the paired Lightnin' Loops coasters, whose loops interlocked. It closed there after the 1986 season and stood unused until 1992. It opened at Frontier City as Diamondback in May 1994.
RCDB lists 635 feet of track, a height of 56 feet, a 47-foot drop, a top speed of 45 mph and a ride time of 1 minute 6 seconds; the park also gives 45 mph. One train of six cars carries 24 riders. Riders must be at least 48 inches tall.
Sources
- sixflags.com/frontiercity/attractions/diamondback (Park page: coaster, introduced 1994, manufacturer Arrow Dynamics, 45 miles per hour, loops and runs back in reverse, minimum height 48 inches.)
- rcdb.com/586.htm (RCDB: Arrow Dynamics Launched Loop at Frontier City since May 1994; 635 ft, 56 ft, 47 ft drop, 45 mph, 1 inversion, 1:06; electric winch launch; single train of 6 cars, 24 riders; relocated from Six Flags Great Adventure (Lightnin' Loops).)
- rcdb.com/585.htm (RCDB: Lightnin' Loops at Six Flags Great Adventure operated May 23, 1978 to 1986, SBNO 1987-1992; its loop interlocked with a second identical coaster.)
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