Booster (KMG Ride)
Speed is an amusement ride design produced by the Dutch company KMG. It is commonly referred to as KMG Booster, due to its similarity with the Fabbri Booster ride. It has become an extremely common ride on European travelling funfairs, particularly in the UK. This is due to a combination of the ride's spectacular visual impact, and its highly practical operation. The ride can be transported on only one trailer, and requires just three hours to build up. Design and operation The ride is primarily a 37-metre arm, connected midway to the main support of the ride. Two sets of two seats are mounted at the end of each arm, back to back. Each four-seat assembly can swing through 360 degrees. The arm rotates at up to 13 revolutions per minute, producing an acceleration of 3.5 ''g'' on the riders. References Pendulum rides {{Amusement-ride-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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KMG Booster, Speed, Night
KMG may refer to: Music * KMG the Illustrator, member of the rap group Above the Law * KMG Records (Killen Music Group), a Christian record label * The KMG's (Krazy Mess Groovers), a Belgian musical group Companies * Kantipur Media Group, Nepal * KazMunayGas, the state-owned oil and gas company of Kazakhstan * Kerr-McGee, an energy company involved in the exploration and production of oil and gas * Klynveld Main Goerdeler (KMG), a predecessor of the professional services company KPMG * KMG Company, a Dutch company manufacturing amusement rides * KMG Group (Killarney Manufacturing Group), an Irish engineering company Other organisations * KMG Ethiopia, an Ethiopian women's rights group Other uses * Kâte language, ISO 639 language code * Kunming Changshui International Airport, IATA code KMG, serving Kunming, China * Kunming Wujiaba International Airport, former IATA code KMG, the old Kunming airport * Kisari Mohan Ganguli, a translator of the Hindu epic ''Mahabharata ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Amusement Ride
Amusement rides, sometimes called carnival rides, are mechanical devices or structures that move people especially kids to create fun and enjoyment. Rides are often perceived by many as being scary or more dangerous than they actually are. This could be due to the design or from hearing about accidents involving rides that are similar. They are expected at most annual events such as Fair, fairs, traveling carnivals, and Circus, circuses around the world. Sometimes music festivals and concerts also host amusement park rides. Types of rides * Flat rides are usually considered to be those that move their passengers in a plane generally parallel to the ground, such as rides that spin around a vertical axis, like carousels and twist (ride), twists, and ground level rides such as bumper cars and The Whip (ride), The Whip. * Gravity rides are those where gravity is responsible for all or some of the movement, and where any vertical movement is not about a fixed point, such as rolle ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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KMG (company)
KMG is a Dutch company manufacturing amusement rides, located in Neede, Gelderland. KMG has constructed over 300 rides to date. The following, among others, are KMG rides: *Afterburner (sold under the name Fireball in the US), a Pendulum ride. *Discovery *Discovery v2.0 * Freak Out *Speed *Experience *XXL *Fun Factory *Tango Tango is a partner dance and social dance that originated in the 1880s along the Río de la Plata, the natural border between Argentina and Uruguay. The tango was born in the impoverished port areas of these countries as the result of a combina ... * X-Factory (Miami) *Speed Buzz *High Swing *Experience *Move It 32 *Move It 24 (smaller version of the Move It 32) *Move It 18 *Para Jump (Discontinued) *Tropical Trip *Swing It *Inversion 12 *XLR8 *Sicko *Mission Space *Inversion 24 (known as Infinity) *Surf Ride *Speed 32 (A 65 meter speed using the A Frame of a XXL) *X-Drive Accident In July 2017, the Fire Ball ride broke apart at the Ohio State Fair, r ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Fabbri Group
Fabbri Group is an Italian amusement rides manufacturer based in Calto, Italy. They are known for producing a number staple attractions for both amusement parks and funfairs, such as the Booster and the Kamikaze Explorer. History Fabbri was founded by Romolo Fabbri in Bergantino, an Italian village which became to home a number of amusement ride producers after World War II. Manufacturing began in 1950 with the Avio (Aeroplane Ride), a ride specifically designed for traveling shows in Italy. Over the following of years, Fabbri would evolve this attraction into the popular Telecombat ride. In the 1970s Romolo's son, Licinio Fabbri, took over direction of the company, and expanded sales beyond Italy into the rest of the European continent. The company expanded once again with the founding of FC Fabbri Park Sr in 1990s, with the goal of reaching out to the world market. After years of producing many different rides, the Fabbri Group entered the roller coaster market no later than 1 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Booster (Fabbri Ride)
Booster is an amusement ride made by Fabbri Group, Fabbri. It is a pendulum ride, similar to the later Speed (ride), Speed by KMG (company), KMG (which, due to its similarity to the Fabbri ride, is often referred to as the KMG Booster). There is another ride from the Italian company, Zamperla. Zamperla made a booster like ride called Turbo Force made in 2001. Incidents On August 4, 2007, at the Fête des Loges in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France, a gondola broke loose and crashed to the ground. Two people (a father and son) in the gondola were killed and two seriously injured. Two other people were stuck 40 meters in the air for over two hours. Same problem at the funfair of Rennes, France, in the night of the new year, a technical problem had blocked the ride but not the safety harness system, 8 people who were in the basket located at the top of the ride at 55 were rescued by a helicopter. References Pendulum rides Fabbri Group {{Amusement-ride-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Travelling Funfair
A traveling carnival (US English), usually simply called a carnival, or travelling funfair (UK English), is an amusement show that may be made up of amusement rides, food vendors, merchandise vendors, games of chance and skill, thrill acts, and animal acts. A traveling carnival is not set up at a permanent location, like an amusement park or funfair, but is moved from place to place. Its roots are similar to the 19th century circus with both being fitted-up in open fields near or in town and moving to a new location after a period of time. In fact, many carnivals have circuses while others have a clown aesthetic in their decor. Unlike traditional carnival celebrations, the North American traveling carnival is not tied to a religious observance. History In 1893, the Chicago's World's Columbian Exposition (also called the Chicago World's Fair) was the catalyst for the development of the traveling carnival. The Chicago World's Fair had an area that included rides, games of chan ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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G-force
The gravitational force equivalent, or, more commonly, g-force, is a measurement of the type of force per unit mass – typically acceleration – that causes a perception of weight, with a g-force of 1 g (not gram in mass measurement) equal to the conventional value of gravitational acceleration on Earth, ''g'', of about . Since g-forces indirectly produce weight, any g-force can be described as a "weight per unit mass" (see the synonym specific weight). When the g-force is produced by the surface of one object being pushed by the surface of another object, the reaction force to this push produces an equal and opposite weight for every unit of each object's mass. The types of forces involved are transmitted through objects by interior mechanical stresses. Gravitational acceleration (except certain electromagnetic force influences) is the cause of an object's acceleration in relation to free fall. The g-force experienced by an object is due to the vector sum of all ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |