Air is a steel flying roller coaster located in the Forbidden Valley area of Alton Towers in Staffordshire, England. The ride was the first flying roller coaster to be made by Swiss manufacturers Bolliger & Mabillard. Guests ride in a prone position and experience the feeling of flight by 'flying' close to the ground, under footpaths and gliding narrowly past objects such as trees.
It was sponsored by Cadbury Heroes.
Air currently sits on the sit...
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Air is a steel flying roller coaster located in the Forbidden Valley area of Alton Towers in Staffordshire, England. The ride was the first flying roller coaster to be made by Swiss manufacturers Bolliger & Mabillard. Guests ride in a prone position and experience the feeling of flight by 'flying' close to the ground, under footpaths and gliding narrowly past objects such as trees.
It was sponsored by Cadbury Heroes.
Air currently sits on the site of the Beast roller coaster. The beast went out of operation at the end of 1997. Air was a concept first thought up in 1994, famed roller coaster designer John Wardley and roller coaster construction company Bolliger & Mabillard came up with the idea by watching Nemesis going around the track. They decided a new, interesting ride experience would be a ride similar to an inverter but in the prone position so that the rider would be tilted forward, as if lying on their stomach whilst on the roller coaster you are sat dangling down.
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