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Flight Deck

California's Great America
Seated on trains suspended from the overhead inverted steel track, the Flight Deck roller coaster takes park guests on a ride designed to resemble a fighter jet. Here you'll experience a nine-story drop into a vertical loop, a weightless zero-G roll over the ride entry and a thrilling finale consisting of a corkscrew inversion into high-speed helix while flying over a body of water.
Roller Coaster Details
| Track |
Type |
Year |
Designer/Manufacturer |
| Steel |
Inverted Multielement |
1993 |
Bolliger and Mabillard |
Roller Coaster Stats

| Height: 102 feet |
Drop: 91 feet |
| Top speed: 50 mph |
Inversions: 3 |
| Length: 2,260 feet |
Ride time: 2 minutes, 20 seconds |
| Trains: 2 - 28 passenger |
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More Information About Flight Deck

2008 - Top Gun renamed Flight Deck
Inversions: Vertical Loop, Zero-G Roll, Corkscrew
Trains have seven cars with one row each, seating four abreast per row.
Ride capacity: 1,380 passengers per hour
Height requirement: Must be at least 54 inches tall
Ride Location

California's Great America, Santa Clara, CA
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