Kirnu
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| Kirnu | |
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| Linnanmäki | |
| Coordinates | 60°11′18″N 24°56′24″E / 60.18833°N 24.94000°ECoordinates: 60°11′18″N 24°56′24″E / 60.18833°N 24.94000°E |
| Status | Operating |
| Opening date | April 27, 2007 |
| Cost | About 3 million euros. |
| General statistics | |
| Type | Steel – 4th Dimension |
| Manufacturer | Intamin |
| Designer | Werner Stengel |
| Model | ZacSpin |
| Height | 83.4 ft (25.4 m) |
| Length | 465.11 ft (141.77 m) |
| Speed | 37 mph (60 km/h) |
| Inversions | 0 |
| Duration | 1:00 |
| Capacity | 640 riders per hour |
| G-force | 2.6 |
| Height restriction | 55.118 in (140 cm) |
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Kirnu at RCDB Pictures of Kirnu at RCDB | |
Kirnu (Finnish for Butter churn) is a steel roller coaster located at the Linnanmäki amusement park in Helsinki, Finland. Kirnu is Intamin's first ball coaster.
Layout
The ride starts as riders climb the curved lift hill and do a quick pre-drop and immediately do a sharp half loop and then go through another half loop and finally another half loop before being slowed back down by near-vertical brakes and doing a final quarter and returning to the station.
Notability
AS Intamin's first ball coaster, it changed the way Finnish rollercoasters were viewed.
Incidents
On May 16, 2007 a man injured his leg on Kirnu and its brakes were renewed.[1]
References
- ↑ "Kirnun jarrut vaihtoon" (in Finnish). Ilta-Sanomat. 2007-05-19. Retrieved 2008-07-21.
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