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As I am almost to the back of the park I might as well go all the way back there for a few rides on Thunderbird.



Thunderbird is still my favorite of the Bolliger & Mabillard wing coasters.



One of the things that makes it tops is the amazing zero to sixty miles an hour launch out of the barn before soaring up into the sky.



With nothing above you and nothing beneath your dangling feet wing coasters like Thunderbird offer such a free feeling.



That feeling of just flying is one of the most amazing sensations.  Human beings may not have wings but the dream of flight has been with us from the dawn of time.  Throughout history you can see all of the different ways man has tried to take flight from balloons to gliders all the way up to the Wright Brothers first successful flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903.  While Thunderbird might not really be flight it gives twenty riders that feeling for the minute and eighteen second duration of the ride.



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