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The Outer Limits™: Flight of Fear™
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| Be prepared to Face Your Darkest
Fears... New, the Outer Limits: Flight of Fear at Paramount's Kings Island
will launch you into the next dimension of coaster excitement. It’s not only the
first indoor roller coaster of it’s kind on Earth, it is the first roller coaster
that is completely out of this world!!! |
Awarded best new ride!
Even before its launch, the Outer Limits: Flight of Fear won two
first place awards at the International Association of Amusement Parks and
Attractions (IAAPA) annual trade show in November, 1995. The Outer Limits:
Flight of Fear
won awards in two categories; the Major Theme/Amusement Park
Ride/Attractions, and Technology Applied to Amusements. This award winning coaster is the most technologically advanced coaster of its
kind and is waiting to launch you into the next dimension of thrills. |
| Utilizing a revolutionary launch
system, The Outer Limits: Flight of Fear catapults riders from zero to 54
miles per hour in just 4 seconds! The 24-passenger train hurtles down a dark tunnel into a
one-acre, enclosed structure filled with a maze of twisting and turning steel coaster
track. Surrounded in darkness, riders will experience the most innovative themed ride
experience available anywhere today! |
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| Coaster: |
Outer
Limits™: Flight of Fear™ |
| Location: |
Near The
Racer roller coaster |
| Opening: |
Late Spring,
1996 |
| Manufacturer: |
Premier
Rides, Millersville, MD |
| Designer: |
Paramount
Parks Design and Entertainment, Charlotte, NC and Premier Rides, Millersville, MD |
| Steel: |
500 tons |
| Track Length: |
2,705 feet |
| Speed: |
54 MPH |
| Capacity: |
2,000 per
hour |
| Turns: |
30 vertical
curves, more than 25 compound horizontal curves |
| Building: |
One-acre
enclosed, octagon shaped |
| Cars: |
Four
passengers per car, six cars per train, four trains |
| Launch System: |
Revolutionary
launch system that catapults riders with electrical energy and laser beams instead of
utilizing a typical chain lift hill |
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