Behemoth (roller coaster)

Behemoth (Hebrew = " behemoth " ) in Canada's Wonderland ( Vaughan, Ontario, Canada) is a steel roller coaster model from hyper coaster manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard, opened on May 4, 2008. Until the opening of Leviathan in the same park in May 2012 it was the tallest and fastest with 70 m with 124 km / h roller coaster in Canada.

The chain lift crosses the Backlot Stunt Coaster roller coaster. At the foot of, with 75 ° slope, so far steepest first drop of a B & M Hyper Coasters, the trains reach their highest speed. It follows the first hill, on which the U-turn consisting of a banked 180 degree turn followed. There are three strongly resembling hills whose driveways are provided with Reduzierbremsen that reduce the need for speed after. A subsequent block driveway leads to brake the train, which is followed by a 540 -degree downward helix. On ground level followed by a shift from right -to left-hander in a 270 ° upward helix. After another small hill, the train will be braked by eddy current brakes on a slightly sloping straight line before it passes through a 180 ° turn on the queue and again arrives in the station.

Behemoth has three trains with eight cars. In each car four people can (two rows of two people) take place. Passengers must be at least 1.20 m tall to ride allowed. Due to the block system, all three trains can be operated simultaneously, thus ensuring a maximum capacity of 1,500 people per hour.

Unlike the previous roller coasters on the model Hypercoaster of the manufacturer, the four seats of a car are not side by side in a row, but rather in the form of an inverted V. In this case, the middle two seats are next to each other and the other two fits easily arranged obliquely behind it. The new seating arrangement is to provide a better view of the passengers, the train is characterized but longer than the older systems of this type. A significant disadvantage of this longer trains, however, is that the coatings lose much faster speed, because the acceleration phase when passing over a hill airtime begins later, namely when the center of gravity of the train has passed the highest point.