What You Should Know about Paratrooper Ride

The Paratrooper, also known as the "Parachute Ride" or "Umbrella Ride", is a type of fairground ride based on the seats suspended below a wheel which rotates at an oblique angle, the seats are free to rock sideways and swing out under centrifugal force as the wheel rotates. Invariably, the seats on the Paratrooper ride have a round shaped umbrella or other shaped canopy above the seats; in contrast to modern thrill rides, the Paratrooper is a ride suitable for almost all ages, except for infants and very small children. Check this page for varied paratrooper rides.

Older Paratrooper rides have a rotating wheel which is permanently raised, which has the disadvantage that riders can only embark, two at a time, as each seat is brought to hang vertically at the lowest point of the wheel, some models have a lower platform that's slightly raised on the ends that could permit the loading of up to three seats at a time. Most of these were made by either Bennett, Watkins or Hrubetz, the German manufacturer Heintz-Fahtze also made larger models under the name of Twister. Most of these rides require the rider to be at least 36 inches tall with an adult and over 48 to ride alone.

More modern Paratrooper rides use a pneumatic lifting piston to raise the wheel to their riding angle while spinning the seats; in its lowered position, all the seats hang vertically near the ground and can be loaded simultaneously. The above manufacturers also made these types and the height requirement to ride them remains pretty much the same.

The centrifugal force is an inertial force directed away from the axis of rotation that appears to act on all objects when viewed in a rotating reference frame. When they are analyzed in a coordinate system. The term has also been used for the force that is a reaction to a centripetal force. The centrifugal force is an outward force apparent in a reference frame. All measurements of position and velocity must be relative to some frame of reference. An inertial frame of reference is one that is not accelerating, the use of an inertial frame of reference, which will be the case for all elementary calculations, is often not explicitly stated but may generally be assumed unless stated otherwise. In terms of a frame of reference, the centrifugal force does not exist. Click this link for varied spinning amusement rides which could produce centrifugal force.

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