Flashback (Six Flags New England)
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| Flashback | |
| Location | Six Flags New England |
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| Park section | North End |
| Type | Steel |
| Status | Open |
| Opened | May 5, 2000 |
| Manufacturer | Vekoma |
| Model | Shuttle |
| Height | 116.5 ft (35.5 m) |
| Length | 935 ft (285 m) |
| Max speed | 47 mph (76 km/h) |
| Inversions | 3 |
| Capacity | 760 riders per hour |
| Flashback at RCDB Pictures of Flashback at RCDB |
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Flashback is a steel roller coaster of shuttle design currently in use at Six Flags New England. The ride has one train with a capacity of twenty eight riders, two across in each row. When the coaster starts, the train is pulled backwards up the lift hill, then dropped through the loading gate through a cobra roll and then one loop. At the end of this cycle the train is pulled up the lift hill at the end of the track, then released allowing the train to go back through the loops backwards, hence the name of the coaster. The ride has an off-the-shelf Vekoma design common in many amusement parks.
[edit] History
The ride originally opened in 1985 as Boomerang at Nahu but was removed before 1990 susposedly because people were too afraid to ride it. It later opened at Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom as Vampire in 1990 until its removal in 1999.
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