Flashback!

Infobox roller coaster
name=Flashback!


location=Six Flags Over Texas
section=Goodtimes Square
type1=steel
type2=Shuttle
status=Open
opened=1989
manufacturer=Vekoma
designer=Vekoma
model=Boomerang
track=boomerang
lift=chain
height=116
drop=108
length=935
speed=47
inversions=3 (6 forwards and backwards)
duration=1:48
angle=56
capacity=760
cost=
acceleration=47
gforce=5.2
restriction=48
rcdb_number=8

Flashback! is a steel boomerang roller coaster located at Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington, Texas (USA). The coaster consists of a single track that loops several times and then goes backwards, making it a shuttle coaster.

It was one of the first Boomerang coasters built in the United States. It was designed and built by Vekoma and opened at Six Flags Over Texas in the 1989 season. Vekoma then built a generic boomerang model that had been sold to numerous amusement parks in the United States including Knott's Berry Farm, Hersheypark, Lake Compounce, as well as virtually all the parks owned by Funtime and Premier Parks. The Funtime and Premier Parks were eventually sold to Six Flags in 1998.

While the coaster is exactly the same in all the parks it was installed at in the 1990's, the Flashback! at Six Flags Over Texas has a slightly different layout with somewhat larger and heavier trains. But the concept of this looping shuttle coaster influenced the more generic boomerang coaster located in so many parks today.

References

External links

* [http://www.sixflags.com/overTexas/Rides/Flashback.aspx Official Page From Six Flags Over Texas]