So vor einer Stunde hat Busch Gardens es auch auf Facebook offiziel gemacht, dass der Aufbau der Turmsegmente beginnt.
Dazu dieses Foto:
Mit diesem Link dazu (
Falcon's Fury Arrives at Busch Gardens, Piece by Piece | Busch Gardens Tampa) auf dem noch diese beiden Fotos zu sehen sind:
Und dieser Text:
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Ride Pieces for the Park’s Newest Attraction Make Trek Across the Atlantic Ocean, Arriving through the Port of Tampa
In June, Busch Gardens Tampa announced that it would be taking thrills to new heights with Falcon’s Fury™, North America’s tallest freestanding drop tower, in spring 2014. The construction has been underway ever since then, and the
Busch Gardens design and engineering team is almost ready to start putting the pieces together.
While smaller components of the 335-foot drop tower have been arriving from several countries in Europe, including Slovakia, Switzerland and Germany, the cylinder sections arrived last week. The vertical tower is comprised of nine sections, each up to 20 feet in diameter and weighing up to 95 tons, or 190,000 pounds.
The total weight of the tower pieces that were delivered last week was approximately 519 tons, or more than 1 million pounds of steel. The pieces were shipped more than 4,700 nautical miles from the port of Tarragona, Spain and made the month-long trip across the Atlantic Ocean to the Port of Tampa. The ride pieces were then trucked to
Busch Gardens over the course of two days, where they are waiting to be installed later this year.
For more than five decades
Busch Gardens has delivered some of the world’s most exciting thrills. In spring 2014
Busch Gardens is taking guests’ experiences to new heights with
Falcon’s Fury, the first drop tower of its kind in the world. Additionally, with no connecting structures, it will be the tallest freestanding drop tower in North America.
Falcon’s Fury
No bird can match the speed of a falcon in its hunting dive. The falcon is the fastest animal on Earth, reaching speeds of 200 mph. Designers were inspired by this bird of prey during the development of
Falcon’s Fury.
Falcon’s Fury will stand at 335 feet and take riders soaring 60 mph straight down. Located in the
Timbuktu area,
Falcon’s Fury will be visible from any location in the park and even across the Tampa Bay area.
At the ride’s highest point
Busch Gardens has added an element of surprise. Like its bird of prey namesake, riders will pivot 90 degrees in midair to a face-down dive position. An instant later they'll plunge 60 mph at 3.5 Gs straight down with speed and power like they’ve likely never experienced before.
For more updates about
Falcon’s Fury at
Busch Gardens Tampa, go to
FalconsFury.com"
Hier mal die wichtigsten Fakten die der Text liefert:
-Der Turm wird der höchste freistehende Freifallturm in Nord-Amerika sein
-Das Zusammenfügen der Turmsegmente wird so bald wie möglich beginnen
-Die kleineren Teile des Turms sind schon letzte Woche angekommen
-Der Turm ist aufgeteilt in 9 Teile, die bis zu 95 Tonnen wiegen
-Dann wird noch das Ridesystem beschrieben, was wir ja schon kennen
Gruß Konsti
