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Kentucky Flyer
Wood Out-and-Back at Kentucky Kingdom, Louisville, Kentucky. Opened 2019.
- Height
- 47 ft
- Drop
- 44 ft
- Top speed
- 35 mph
- Length
- 1,288 ft
- Inversions
- 0
- Ride time
- 1 min
- Designer
- Gravitykraft Corporation
Kentucky Flyer is a family wooden roller coaster at Kentucky Kingdom in Louisville, Kentucky. It was designed by The Gravity Group and built by Gravitykraft Corporation of Cincinnati, and it opened to the public on April 28, 2019.
The out-and-back ride climbs a 47-foot chain lift, drops 44 feet at a 52-degree angle, and reaches 35 mph on 1,288 feet of track, with no inversions. A ride lasts about one minute.
History
The park announced the coaster in September 2018. Construction was briefly halted that October when the park's landlord, the Kentucky State Fair Board, stopped work, but permission was granted the next day and the ride opened the following spring.
Sources
- rcdb.com/16676.htm (Kentucky Flyer, operating; make Gravitykraft Corporation, designer The Gravity Group; wood, family, out and back, hybrid; 47 ft, 44 ft drop, 1,288 ft, 35 mph, 0 inversions, 52 degrees; chain lift.)
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_Flyer (Opened to public April 28, 2019; Gravitykraft/The Gravity Group; duration 1:00; announced September 2018; October 2018 construction halt by the State Fair Board, lifted the next day.)
- rcdb.com/4563.htm (RCDB Kentucky Kingdom: 937 Phillips Lane, Louisville; operating; operator Herschend; former name Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom; operating coasters Lightning Run, Wind Chaser, Kentucky Flyer, Flying Fox, Hollyhock and Roll, Woodland Run; defunct Vampire, T3, Chang, Starchaser, Twisted Twins, Road Runner Express, Greezed Lightnin'.)
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