Negative-G - Lost Island Theme Park - July 2022 Page Twenty-Three

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The Matugani coaster at Lost Island Theme Park, Waterloo, Iowa

Hydraulic launch systems use incompressible hydraulic fluid and compressed nitrogen gas like what gets stored in these six containers.

The Matugani Coaster in the Mura Realm at Lost Island Theme Park, Waterloo, Iowa

The compressed nitrogen is blasted into this container that has the incompressible hydraulic fluid that ends up...

...spinning this drum that has the rides cable that is connected to the pusher. That blast of gas and fluid spins the drum and pulls the cable that transfers all of that energy to the train.

The Matugani Coaster int the Mura Realm at Lost Island Theme Park, Waterloo, Iowa

We were really allowed to look at anything and everything.

This is a nice drawing of all of the sensors and wiring that goes into making Matugani eventually work.