# Another "identify that carnival ride" question

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**Created:** [August 3, 2025, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-identify-that-carnival-ride-question/1021671 "2025-08-03T23:10:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Old\_Wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecccb3/32.png) [@Old\_Wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Old_Wench)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2025, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-identify-that-carnival-ride-question/1021671/21 "2025-09-08T02:27:44Z")

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You can ride Flying Turns at Knoebels in Elysburg, PA. It goes up a roller coaster lift hill on a track and a chain, then releases into a wooden trough, then another lift hill and back into the trough, until it goes back onto the track and the brakes as it approaches the station. There are a lot of on-ride POV videos.

> **[Flying Turns (Knoebels)](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Turns_(Knoebels))**
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> Flying Turns is a wooden bobsled roller coaster at Knoebels Amusement Resort in Elysburg, Pennsylvania. It is modeled after a similar ride designed by John Norman Bartlett and John Miller in the 1920s. The ride concept is similar to a modern steel bobsled roller coaster; however Flying Turns is made of wood, like the original rides. The layout of the ride is most similar to the original located at Riverview Park in Chicago, Illinois.
> Construction began in January 2006. In July 2007, the first t...

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**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2025, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-identify-that-carnival-ride-question/1021671/22 "2025-09-08T02:34:36Z")

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That’s pretty neat. Trackless rides aren’t as uncommon as I’d thought, apparently.

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/LShDyOg759o/maxresdefault.jpg "FLYING TURNS - Knoebels - POV") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LShDyOg759o)

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