Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Flying Fury

At Luna Euro Park, this was our "crazy" ride. The Flying Fury looks like a regular swinging arm ride, but it's user controlled. You have control over two axes of motion, roll and yaw, and over the speed of this big old ABB propeller fan.

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We let Dariush drive, and now I know why Ali doesn't want him to drive his car. I'm upside-down in this picture because that's the orientation the camera and I were in.

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It doesn't look so bad in this video, right? They are actually going pretty slowly! Let me assure you it was pretty insane.



They make you leave everything on the ground, and rightfully so. I barely managed to hold on to my camera! Dariush lost a whole pocketful of stuff. Here's the guys after we found his phone on the roof of the ride next door. His lighter turned up, his cigarettes did not. And the phone was in four or five pieces, but it shockingly still worked after he put it together again.

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We were all pretty beat after this ride...

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