X-Flight (Geauga Lake)
X-Flight may refer to one of two roller coasters: * X-Flight (Six Flags Great America), a wing roller coaster at Six Flags Great America * X-Flight (Geauga Lake), a former flying roller coaster at Geauga Lake {{disambig ...
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X-Flight (Six Flags Great America)
X-Flight is a steel roller coaster located at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois. Designed and built by Bolliger & Mabillard, the ride opened as the fourth Wing Coaster in the world and the second in the United States on May 16, 2012. It replaced both the Splashwater Falls and Great American Raceway attractions. The roller coaster features barrel rolls, high-speed drops, and a signature fly-through element, where the train narrowly misses a support structure – designed to look like an air traffic control tower – as it passes through an opening known as a keyhole element. History X-Flight was announced on September 1, 2011. Six Flags Great America was the first park to announce plans for a Wing Coaster in the United States. Land clearing started that same month on the former site of ''Splashwater Falls'' and the ''Great America Raceway''. The first pieces of the track began to arrive in early October. 127 Caissons (footers), ranging from to were dug into the gr ...
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