page_title: Nighthawk (roller coaster)
section_title: Track
hierarchical_section_title: Nighthawk (roller coaster) / Ride experience / Track
caption_attribution_description: English: Borg Assimilator as seen from the Carolina Skytower at Cedar Fair Carowinds. Taken by William Barnhill on 3/31/2007.
context_page_description: Nighthawk is a steel flying roller coaster from Vekoma located at Carowinds amusement park. The roller coaster originally opened as Stealth at California's Great America on April 1, 2000. In 2003, Paramount decided to relocate the roller coaster to Carowinds. It reopened as Borg Assimilator – the first coaster in the world to be themed to Star Trek – on March 20, 2004. After Cedar Fair purchased Carowinds in 2006, Paramount themes were soon removed from the park, and the ride was renamed Nighthawk. It is one of only two Flying Dutchman models still in existence from Vekoma.
context_section_description: The steel track is approximately 2,766 feet (843 m) in length and the height of the lift is approximately 115 feet (35 m). While at California's Great America, the track was painted red and white with steel gray supports. When the ride was relocated to Carowinds, the track was repainted black and green and the supports remained gray. After the name was changed in 2008, the ride was once again repainted with yellow track and blue supports.
  Nighthawk has a total of five inversions. It features one vertical loop, a double corkscrew, two "Lie to Fly" and two "Fly to Lie" elements. Each "Lie to Fly" and "Fly to Lie" element is counted as a half inversion. A "Lie to Fly" element is when riders are on their backs, facing the sky and they are flipped and face the ground. A "Fly to Lie" element is the opposite.
caption: Nighthawk when it was known as Borg Assimilator.
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