This is Vortex at King's Island north of Cincinnati, OH, USA. It was built by Arrow Dynamics and opened here on April 11, 1997. It actually replaced a roller coaster from the same company called the Bat. The bat was the world's first suspended (not to be confused with inverted) steel roller coaster. That coaster operated here from 1981 to 1983 and was forced to close due to a combination of some design flaws and increasingly escalating maintenance costs. Vortex even uses the old Bat station. Vortex is 148 ft. (45.1 m) high, 3,800 ft. (1,158.24 m) long, 6 inversions, a top speed of about 55 mph (88.5km/h), with a drop of 138 ft. (42 m) and a ride time of about two minutes and thirty seconds. This also was the world's first roller coaster with six inversions with two loops, two corkscrews, and a Batwing with two inversions. Vortex closed on October 27, 2019.
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