maXair is a
Huss Park Attractions
HUSS Park Attractions ( legal name: Huss Park Attractions GmbH) is a German-owned company that specializes in developing and manufacturing amusement rides at a factory in Budapest, Hungary.
History of the original Huss Company
HUSS Maschinen ...
Giant Frisbee ride at
Cedar Point
Cedar Point is a amusement park located on a Lake Erie peninsula in Sandusky, Ohio, United States, owned and operated by Six Flags. It opened in 1870 and is considered the second-oldest operating amusement park in the US behind Lake Compounc ...
in
Sandusky,
Ohio
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, United States. It is one of two HUSS Giant Frisbees in the United States, the other being
Delirium
Delirium (formerly acute confusional state, an ambiguous term that is now discouraged) is a specific state of acute confusion attributable to the direct physiological consequence of a medical condition, effects of a psychoactive substance, or ...
at
Kings Island
Kings Island is a amusement park northeast of Cincinnati in Mason, Ohio, United States. Owned and operated by Six Flags, the park was built by Taft Broadcasting and opened in 1972. It was part of a larger effort to move and expand Coney Islan ...
. It is located near the front of the park near Troika,
GateKeeper
A gatekeeper is a person who controls access to something, for example via a city gate or bouncer, or more abstractly, controls who is granted access to a category or status. Gatekeepers assess who is "in or out", in the classic words of manage ...
, and
Kiddy Kingdom.
Ride experience
At the start of the cycle, a movable floor drops to allow clearance for the ride to move. After that, the ride begins to swing back and forth as the circular gondola rotates, gaining more height and speed with each swing. At the peak, riders reach a height of above the ground although the structure of the ride is only tall. The pendulum motion propels riders back and forth at up to an arc of 120 degrees, making it one of the fastest non-coaster rides at Cedar Point.
At the end of the cycle, the pendulum gradually slows to a stop and the gondola stops rotating. Once the pendulum and gondola are parked at the loading position, the floor rises and the restraints release.
maXair is one of several rides at Cedar Point that require glasses to be secured with an athletic strap. Loose articles may be brought into the queue, but must be secured in small cubbies located around the gondola on the loading platform.
Riders are secured with a ratcheting shoulder harness and a backup seatbelt between the legs. In addition to the seatbelt, the restraints contain sensors which will not allow the ride to be started unless all 50 harnesses have been closed past a certain limit, which is indicated by a green light near each seat.
See also
*
Delirium
Delirium (formerly acute confusional state, an ambiguous term that is now discouraged) is a specific state of acute confusion attributable to the direct physiological consequence of a medical condition, effects of a psychoactive substance, or ...
at
Kings Island
Kings Island is a amusement park northeast of Cincinnati in Mason, Ohio, United States. Owned and operated by Six Flags, the park was built by Taft Broadcasting and opened in 1972. It was part of a larger effort to move and expand Coney Islan ...
, the only other HUSS Giant Frisbee in the United States.
* Titan at
La Ronde, a similar ride produced by Zamperla.
References
External links
Official ''maXair'' pageOfficial POV of maXairmaXair Photo Galleryat The Point Online
Video of maXair in 2019{{Cedar Point
Amusement rides manufactured by HUSS Park Attractions
Amusement rides introduced in 2005
Pendulum rides
Cedar Point
Six Flags attractions