08-27-2001, 06:19 AM
| | Corkscrew Poster | | Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Maryland Age: 21
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| | | Flat Spin
can anyone show me what a flat spin looks like in a picture cuase I know what a corkscrew and a zero-g-roll are but I have no idea what a flat spin is
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08-27-2001, 07:35 AM
| | Corkscrew Poster | | Join Date: May 2001 Location: North Carolina
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| | | A flat spin is what B&M calls just 1 corkcrew. Here's a pic:
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08-27-2001, 08:18 AM
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| | | to me in that picture it looks like it is half inline twit half corkscrew. its hard to see that the actual train does infact go up . |
08-27-2001, 08:36 AM
|  | Wooden Poster | | Join Date: May 2001 Location: Chicago, US! Age: 27
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| | | There is a difference!
There is more of a difference than in the name. A corkscrew has the same radius throughout the entire inversion. Ex: Arrow's double corkscrew. A B&M flat spin has a radius that gets tighter as you enter the inversion, and then loosens as you exit the inversion. That is what causes that quick "flip" feeling on a flat spin, as opposed to Arrow's consistent corkscrew inversion. Ex: Batman Knight Flight's interlocking flat spins.
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08-27-2001, 10:32 AM
|  | Fightin Irish | | Join Date: May 2001 Location: Ellwood City, PA Age: 22
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| | | Island you have no clue what you are talking about. BKF just has normal corkscrews, those are not flatspins.
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08-27-2001, 10:40 AM
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| | | There is no difference. If you don't know by now, B&M likes to give fancy names to elements (see - horizontal loops for a helix, flat spin for a corkscrew, etc.)...there is absolutely no difference between a flat spin and corkscrew. |
08-27-2001, 10:50 AM
| | Fightin Irish | | Join Date: May 2001 Location: Ellwood City, PA Age: 22
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| | | Thank you Coaster131 for clearing that up. I was pretty sure it was just a fancy name, but I wanted to make sure.
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08-27-2001, 04:53 PM
| | Giga Poster | | Join Date: May 2001 Location: West Palm Beach, Florida Age: 32
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| | | I believe flat spin is what B&M calls it's inverteds' corkscrew.
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08-27-2001, 05:23 PM
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| | | i think a flat spin is the same thing as a barrel roll or zero g roll. |
08-27-2001, 05:27 PM
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| | | Flat Spin: B&M's name for a corkscrew on a regular coaster. On an Inverted Coaster, the element is called a "Wongover". |
08-27-2001, 05:30 PM
| | Looping Poster | | Join Date: May 2001 Location: Woodbridge, Va
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| | | actually islands was right. It is not just a corkscrew....if you have ever been throuh a flat spin you would know the difference. a corkcrew feels consistant through the whole inversion, but on a flat spin you kep whipped up then inverted, due to, like islands said, a changing in the radius. |
08-27-2001, 05:40 PM
|  | Tree hugger | | Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: London Age: 24
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| | | I think island might be right but i dont really know so dont hold me to that.
element names are really confusing-the amercian name for one corkscrew ("half-corkscrew") used to really confuse me. Thats before you even start on the bomerang/cobra roll/batwing thing. |
08-27-2001, 05:41 PM
|  | Me | | Join Date: May 2001 Location: Redlands, CA Age: 24
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| | | Islands is right. Just look at the picture above. It obviously has a tighter radius in the begining then at the end.
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08-27-2001, 05:48 PM
| | Giga Poster | | Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Lima, Ohio Age: 23
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| | | here is a pic of an Arrow's corkscrew |
08-27-2001, 05:48 PM
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| | | here is one of B&M's flat spin. think what you like. | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | 
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