Watch a terrifying video of the world's tallest, fastest, and longest roller coaster, which hangs riders upside down at 165-feet in the air
A terrifying new ride that recently opened at an amusement park in the US has set a new record for the world's tallest, fastest, and longest dive coaster (a type of roller coaster that sends riders through one or more 90-degree drops and includes a free-fall), Condé Nast Traveller reports.
Based at Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio, Valravn - named after a corpse-eating raven from Danish folk stories - is a towering steel and copper structure at 223-feet tall.
Riders sit on a train across three rows of eight with their feet hanging in the air as the ride hurtles them along a 3,415-foot-long track at speeds of up 75 miles-per-hour.
In the 2 minutes and 35 seconds of its course, the stomach-churning ride drops, twists, and turns the people on it completely upside down.
First, Valravn carries riders up a steep hill before perching them over the edge to look over the park and Lake Erie. Then it tosses them down a sharp drop at a vertical 90-degree angle, like this:
After that, coaster riders barely have a chance to recover before they're sent through the first of three - yes, three - huge inversions that turn them on their heads to leave them dangling upside down at 165-feet in the air.
Here's what you would see if you were going through one of those loops:
The dizzying ride subsequently launches its subjects down yet another drop, this time without pausing, before hurling them through another two loops.
If you don't feel sick yet, watch a frightening point-of-view video of the experience below:
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