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- For more information regarding Flying Turns and other bobsled roller coasters, see bobsled roller coaster
Flying Turns is the name of a specific model of wooden roller coaster. John Norman Bartlett, a British aviator in World War I, came to North America after the war with an idea for a trackless wooden chute, full of twists like a bobsled course, with toboggan-like cars, based on a bobsled ride that operated in Europe. He filed a patent for the idea in 1926. Bartlett met John Miller in 1928, and they commenced building the new ride. When the ride went into production, much of the idea was the same, but the cars looks more like monoplanes, which Bartlett designed. Miller worked on the loading station, supporting structure, braking system and incline.
[edit] Flying Turns installations
| Year |
Location |
Notes |
| 1929-193? |
Lakeside Park, Dayton, Ohio |
prototype |
| 1930-1969 |
Euclid Beach Park, Cleveland, Ohio |
the tallest version built |
| 1931-1938 |
Rocky Point Park, Warwick, Rhode Island |
| 1933-1934 |
Century of Progress World's Fair, Chicago, Illinois |
moved to Riverview Park in Chicago |
| 1934-1963 |
Forest Park Highlands Amusement Park, St. Louis, Missouri |
| 1934-1939 |
Steeplechase Park, Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York |
destroyed by a fire in 1939 |
| 1935-1967 |
Riverview Park, Chicago, Illinois |
relocated from the World's Fair |
| 19??-late 1940s |
Palisades Park, Palisades, New Jersey |
new version named the Lake Placid Bobsled |
| 1939-1940 |
New York World's Fair |
last Bobsled ride built by Bartlett |
| 1940-early 1970s |
Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York |
| 1951-early 1970s |
Fyns Tivoli, Odense, Denmark |
| Expected 2007-2008 |
Knoebels Amusement Park & Resort, Elysburg, Pennsylvania |
Being built from scratch by Knoebels' staff. Designed by John Fetterman from an original Miller and Bartlett design. |
