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*Breaking News* Kingda Ka and Top Thrill Dragster have announced they have had a child. The proud parents are so happy to give birth to a 200ft baby girl. The mother, Top Thrill Dragster is quoted to say that there baby has so many characteristics of each other. The bunny hop of the father, Kingda Ka, and the look of herself. The father has been quoted to say that they have not yet named the child as they are having huge troubles deciding of a name. They have been trying to come up for a name of their child for about 6 months. I recently phoned the baby?s cousin, who lives in Australia called Superman Escape at Warner Brothers Movie World. He has said that it is nice to have a baby cousin in the family, though she is taller and faster than me. I would love to see her at some point. Also at the birth of the child was the Aunt, Rita Queen of Speed along with husband, Storm Runner and their friend Xcelerator. They are all said to be pleased to see this new child standing so tall already, and they can?t wait to hold her in their open arms. Top Thrill Dragster and Kingda Ka also confirmed that their child would be raised at Thorpe Park, Surrey, which is fairly near to her aunt Rita. The Couple also confirmed that they are expecting a boy for 2007, and will be living at Port Aventura in Salou Spain. I will be bringing you news about that in the future.
In the interest of finding more evidence to support my claim, I did a bit of math and proportion.I used this picture :What I did was draw a line from the top of the airtime hill perfectly horizontal to the tophat. I then drew a vertical line from the bottom of the pic to the horizontal line moving across. After that, I cut, copied and pasted the vertical line on top of the horizontal line, and drew another horizontal line above that vertical line, and repeated until I got to the top. At the top, I drew a final line to the edge of the image and cut it out, comparing it to the tophat (noting it was approximately 1/2 the height of the vertical strip) and then to another vertical strip (to check my work).I then counted the number of vertical strips - 3.5.I then took 205' (Stealth's height) and divided it by 3.5. 205/3.5 = approx. 59 ft.So, using this argument:STEALTH AIRTIME HILL: (Approx) 59 x 3.5 = 205KINGDA KA AIRTIME HILL: (Approx) 129 x 3.5 = 452.So, I decided to take it one step further - I divided 205 (Stealth's height) by 456 (Ka's height):205/456 = approx. 44%Stealth's height is approximately 44% of what Ka's height is.I took this number and multiplied Ka's airtime hill by it, assuming the rides are proportional. If the rides are proportional, this number should come out to be close to my airtime hill estimation:129 x .44 = approx. 57 ft.Therefore:Estimation by picture proportion: 59 ft.Estimation by Mathematical proportion: 57 ft.PROPOSED PROPORTION: The tophat is 3.5 times the height of the airtime hill. Any rides with this proportion are considered proportional in these two elements.Therefore, because:STEALTH - 205/3.5 = approx. 59 ftKINGDA KA - 456/3.5 = approx. 130 ft (actual hill 129 ft)Stealth and Ka are proportional.You are free to do this yourselves and prove me wrong.QuoteThen why does this hill http://www.rcdb.com/ig1845.htm?picture=33 not have any airtime at all, when it goes through it at about 70mph? And surely if you can get airtime out of any hill with enough speed, and Stealth will hit it's hill at a large speed, why shouldn't there be airtime? Because Stealth's hill is exactly like the one you just showed me. Stealth's, while sharper, is much more drawn out than the pic, and thus will recieve even less forces.QuoteAnd the pictures that you used are deceptive, they are taken from different angles and as this picture shows; http://pictures.rcdb.com/picmax/thorpe-park/unknown13.jpg it only takes a different angle to make a hill look tighter and higher. If there are stats or equal pictures I'll be willing to accept that Stealth's hill has a shallower pull-in than KK's. Fair enough. Compare the pic you showed me with this pic:http://www.rcdb.com/ig2832.htm?picture=22Or compare this with the one I showed you of Stealth earlier:http://image44.webshots.com/44/5/19/83/353851983lcpXQB_ph.jpgAs for your last comments and Stewie's comments, that is the attitude you should have. Trust me - Stealth will not have alot of airtime.
Then why does this hill http://www.rcdb.com/ig1845.htm?picture=33 not have any airtime at all, when it goes through it at about 70mph? And surely if you can get airtime out of any hill with enough speed, and Stealth will hit it's hill at a large speed, why shouldn't there be airtime?
And the pictures that you used are deceptive, they are taken from different angles and as this picture shows; http://pictures.rcdb.com/picmax/thorpe-park/unknown13.jpg it only takes a different angle to make a hill look tighter and higher. If there are stats or equal pictures I'll be willing to accept that Stealth's hill has a shallower pull-in than KK's.
Stealth will definitely have more airtime than Ka because it doesn't have the 270* spiral on the way down. That stupid twist kills any air that you would get on the back side of KK's tophatAnd you get more airtime with the rocket OTSRs. Their cage design gives you some room to float around, unlike t-bars which always staple you in your seat.
Quote from: "Metsman."Stealth will definitely have more airtime than Ka because it doesn't have the 270* spiral on the way down. That stupid twist kills any air that you would get on the back side of KK's tophat.I enjoy the spiral on Ka. It makes me feel like I'm just completely freefalling out of control. It gives the coaster more of a twist (sorry for the corny joke).
Stealth will definitely have more airtime than Ka because it doesn't have the 270* spiral on the way down. That stupid twist kills any air that you would get on the back side of KK's tophat.