Busch Gardens’ Design & Engineering team has officially launched Florida’s first triple-launch coaster for the first time.
If you aren’t able to make it out to the park to witness it for yourself, we thought we’d give you a sneak peek:
The process begins by testing each of the three launch points over and over again at partial power with both empty trains and cars loaded with “water dummies.” Within a few days, the trains started making complete circuits around the track’s 4429-foot run.
But how soon will actual people replace the water dummies? “We will run more than 3,000 cycles of the ride before we put humans on it,” says Mark Rose, Busch Gardens’ Vice President of Design & Engineering. When the time comes, Rose will be one of the first people to ride.
