Your Winged Chariot Is Ready. A Seat on the Edge?

Each season in the theme park world brings a spirit of roller coaster one-upmanship. Which park will build the fastest, tallest, scariest, weirdest or most-talked-about coaster of the summer? Park officials plug away at research, and engineers tinker with formulas to come up with rides they hope will turn heads and raise arms.

Three coasters with winged seating have opened in the United States this year.

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