Flying Turns (Hersheypark)

Flying Turns was a proposed roller coaster that would have been built in Hershey Park for the 1942 season. Due to the United States entrance into the Second World War, the roller coaster was cancelled.

History

Philadelphia Toboggan Company proposed the concept to Hershey Park (as it was known at that time) in August 1941. The coaster was based on a John Norman Bartlett and John Miller design incorporating bobsled elements in place of standard banked terms, giving the type of coaster it's name: a bobsled roller coaster. It would have been located in the park approximately in the midway next to what is now the Wave Swinger, and part of where the Comet lift hill is located.

References

• Jenkins Jr., Torrence. Herbert P. Schmeck The Forgotten Legacy. Knepper Press. 2006. p91-93.