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Postby mschulz5 on April 19th, 2004, 7:47 pm
I know it's called the Air Crow, and that's about it. Does anybody know anything about this ride?
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Postby coasterinsane on April 19th, 2004, 8:07 pm
i read somewhere that it was a flying scooters ride....
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Postby Flyinghigh on April 19th, 2004, 8:09 pm
It is a Larson flying scooter

They have info on http://indianabeach.com

and pics of construction

http://groups.msn.com/IndianaBeachClub/ ... lbumlist=2
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Postby CoasterDave316 on April 19th, 2004, 8:28 pm
Thanks for posting the Construction photos Flying High, I hadn't seen those. The location is great and this is going to be yet another great ride addition for my favorite park.
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Postby mschulz5 on April 19th, 2004, 8:47 pm
Ok so is this like a ride that goes in a circle or what, that's what i was tryin to find out. Someone said it's a larson flying scooter but sorry, i'm not too familiar with flats so i guess i'm tryin to find out what exactly a larson flying scooter is.
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Postby CoasterDave316 on April 19th, 2004, 9:01 pm
Heres what the Larson Flying Scooters are: Click Here
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Postby Galvan on April 19th, 2004, 9:23 pm
Theres an exact replica of that ride at PKI, the name eludes me at this moment but the same "wings" if you will on the ride.
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Postby SFGA 11 on April 19th, 2004, 9:45 pm
That ride model is called " Flying Eagles " at most parks I believe.
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Postby FParker185 on April 23rd, 2004, 12:55 am
Definately time for insertion of a fact that is both worthless and somewhat historic at the same time. The platform for Air Crow is the Gravity Groups very first design and construction project :)

The ride is basically a clone of the Birco Rosch(sp?) Flying Scooters, exept that the ride itself is a clone of a regular park model Flying Scooters(like PKI's) but the seat hangers for each car are cloned from a portable model (like Holiday Worlds), which really is all wrong and makes snapping the cables extremely hard to do, unless you are a real expert, and even then alot of the momentum of the car is lost in rotation of the car instead of slack in the cables (cables are to close together at the point of attachment).

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Postby holydumb26 on April 23rd, 2004, 11:05 am
I do and you should lol

You know way to much for your own good. But yet again I shouldnt talk lol.
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Postby Papas on April 23rd, 2004, 2:25 pm
/\ Yeah you know a lot of things that will never help you with anything, and nothing of anything else ;).
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Postby coastrcorey on April 23rd, 2004, 4:47 pm
I know who Dave is. Yeah, you both seem to know a lot of random things like that.
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Postby coasterzak on April 25th, 2004, 1:33 pm
Oh the famous flyers. I'm still yet to get a good snap on one of those. Indiana Beach looks sweet - if I came out your way this summer would you guys recommend it?
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Postby sixflagsguy5 on April 25th, 2004, 3:41 pm
Its like those flying boats they used to have at Riverview. I saw them in this one book.
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