Themeparkfanatic | Afterburn at Carowinds @woodencoasterfan | Uploaded August 2012 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
This is the inverted steel roller coaster from B&M called Afterburn at Carowinds park near Charlotte, NC. This coaster originally opened as Top Gun: The Jet Coaster on March 20, 1999 and it opperated under that name until Paramount, then owners of Carowinds, sold this and all their other parks to Cedar Fair in 2007. Cedar Fair renamed the coaster Afterburn in 2008 and it still opperates under that name to this day. This coaster was initially going to be themed after the Godzilla movie but decided to go with the Top Gun theme after the movie did very poorly at the box office. It has a total length of 2,956ft, a height of 113ft, 6 inversions, a top speed of 62mph, a ride duration of 2 min 47 sec, and an hourly capacity with both trains running at 1,380 riders per hour. The inversions follow in this sequence, a loop, Immelman (half a loop), Zero-G Roll, Batwing (2 inversions), and a Corkscrew
This is the inverted steel roller coaster from B&M called Afterburn at Carowinds park near Charlotte, NC. This coaster originally opened as Top Gun: The Jet Coaster on March 20, 1999 and it opperated under that name until Paramount, then owners of Carowinds, sold this and all their other parks to Cedar Fair in 2007. Cedar Fair renamed the coaster Afterburn in 2008 and it still opperates under that name to this day. This coaster was initially going to be themed after the Godzilla movie but decided to go with the Top Gun theme after the movie did very poorly at the box office. It has a total length of 2,956ft, a height of 113ft, 6 inversions, a top speed of 62mph, a ride duration of 2 min 47 sec, and an hourly capacity with both trains running at 1,380 riders per hour. The inversions follow in this sequence, a loop, Immelman (half a loop), Zero-G Roll, Batwing (2 inversions), and a Corkscrew
