Golden Zephyr is an attraction at
Paradise Gardens Park in
Disney California Adventure Park
Disney California Adventure Park, commonly referred to as California Adventure or by its acronym DCA, is a theme park located at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California. It is owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company through its Park ...
built by
D. H. Morgan Manufacturing. Themed to the
Buck Rogers
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and
Flash Gordon style rocket ships, it takes park guests on a relaxing trip. Unlike its cousins
Dumbo
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and the
Astro Orbiter next door in
Disneyland
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, the Golden Zephyr rockets are controlled by centripetal motion over Paradise Bay and can not be automatically controlled to go up and down.
The Golden Zephyr's design comes from the
Harry Traver Harry Guy Traver (November 25, 1877 – September 27, 1961) was an American engineer and early roller coaster designer. As the founder of the Traver Engineering Company, Traver was responsible for the production of gentle amusement rides like t ...
Circle-Swing
rides of the early 20th century, specifically the Aerostat / Strat-O-Stat ride that operated at
Riverview Park in
Chicago
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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. In designing the ride, Disney engineers visited
Pleasure Beach in
Blackpool, England to examine the Captive Flying Machines, a similar, but much larger, ride designed by Sir
Hiram Maxim
Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim (5 February 1840 – 24 November 1916) was an American- British inventor best known as the creator of the first automatic machine gun, the Maxim gun. Maxim held patents on numerous mechanical devices such as hair-curl ...
, and which has operated there since 1904.
The ride cannot operate at constant wind speeds over , or gusts over . Neither this attraction, nor
Jumpin' Jellyfish
Jumpin' Jellyfish is a Paratower, a parachute jump–style ride at Disney California Adventure at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California in the US and Tokyo DisneySea at Tokyo Disney Resort in Japan.
The attraction's name comes from the jel ...
were removed or changed as part of the billion-dollar expansion.
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Walt Disney Parks and Resorts attractions
Disney California Adventure
Paradise Pier
Paradise Gardens Park
Amusement rides introduced in 2001
2001 establishments in California