Scorpion
Scorpion on its Vertical Loop element.
Location	Busch Gardens Africa
Type	Steel
Status	Open
Opened	May 16, 1980
Designer	Anton Schwarzkopf
Model	Silverarrow
Lift/launch system	Chain lift hill
Height	60 ft (18.3 m)
Length	1817 ft (553.8 m)
Max speed	41 mph (66 km/h)
Inversions	1
Duration	2:15
Max G force	3.5
Height Restriction	42 in (106.7 cm)
Scorpion at RCDB
Pictures of Scorpion at RCDB

Scorpion is a steel looping roller coaster located at Busch Gardens Africa in Tampa, Florida, United States. It opened in 1980 as a part of the newly added Timbuktu section that gave the park a complete circuit, linking the Congo section to the Narobi section of the park. Scorpion, to this day, remains to be one of the most popular rides in the Timbuktu section. In 2004, as a part of the park's Timbuktu renovation, Scorpion was repainted from Orange/Black to Orange/Blue. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1792x1200, 753 KB) Scorpion traversing the signature element, the vertical loop. ... The current version of the article or section reads like an advertisement. ... The Dueling Dragons, the worlds only Dueling Steel-Inverted roller coaster located at Islands of Adventure in Universal Orlando Resort, Orlando, Florida. ... May 16 is the 136th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (137th in leap years). ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Anton Schwarzkopf (1924-2001) was a prolific German roller coaster engineer and founder of the Schwarzkopf Industries company, which built numerous amusement park rides and roller coasters. ... A lift hill, or chain hill, is often the initial upward section of track on a typical roller coaster that initially transports the roller coaster train to an elevated point. ... For other uses, see g force. ... Nickname: Cigar City, The Big Guava, T-Town, Jook City Location in Hillsborough County and the state of Florida. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...

The ride was designed by Anton Schwarzkopf as one of his Silverarrow model looping coasters. Only three of these exist today, this coaster, one in Great Britain, and the other said to be in a traveling carnival overseas. Anton Schwarzkopf (1924-2001) was a prolific German roller coaster engineer and founder of the Schwarzkopf Industries company, which built numerous amusement park rides and roller coasters. ...

Layout

Scorpion has a fairly simple and twisted layout involving a single Vertical Loop as the signature element. After the train is carried 60 feet into the air, riders twist down a drop and pass through the single Vertical Loop element. Following the loop, the train goes through a pretzel turnaround and threads the vertical loop. The train circles around a 900° helix and enters the brake run. The generic roller coaster vertical loop is the most basic of roller coaster inversions. ... A helix (pl: helices), from the Greek word έλικας/έλιξ, is a twisted shape like a spring, screw or a spiral staircase. ...

External links

• Scorpion at RCDB.com