Talk:Swing ride

message: The article states that the Eclipse ride in Sweden is the highest (I guess they mean tallest) swing ride in the world at 121m. The Swedish version of the amusement park's web page confirms this hight (121m). http://www.gronalund.com/Attraktioner/Alla-attraktioner/Eclipse/
Six Flags in Texas has a ride they call SkyScreamer that they claim is the world's tallest at 400ft. http://content.sixflags.com/newfor2013/overtexas/texas-skyscreamer/
400ft is 121.9m so by just looking at those numbers the article here on wikipedia is wrong. But, to complicate things further, Eclipse is also claimed to be 400ft if you look at the English version of amusement park's web page for the ride (http://www.gronalund.com/en/Attraktioner/Alla-attraktioner/Eclipse/). So if the English version is to be trusted more than the Swedish version they are equally tall.
80.78.212.27 (talk) 05:39, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tallest in the world 

message: Does anyone know of the accident featured in this video at filecabi.net ( 10mb WMV)? At the 2:55 mark, what looks like footage shot by a person with a camcorder standing at the perimeter fence of the ride, shows the large rotating part coming off the central pillar and crashing to the ground over the top of the riders. Ignore that filecabi.net link, collegehumour.com has a 1.4mb file at higher quality that shows more detail. The clip also shows a logo for "REALTV", presumably a local tv station?
Thought it might have been this incident but the Chaos ride isn't a swinging carousel type. 
NAFLIC mentions a chair-o-plane centre column collapse, but doesn't give specific details. (see item 062). Tzarius 11:25, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Accident

message: I find the statement about Strates Shows difficult to believe when every carnival and faire worth the name in Germany has a traditional swing ride, not to mention that Europe has now been seeing for a couple of years the new 50+ meter high swings both stationary and touring..... Should this statement be removed as advertisement or qualified in some fashion? --OliverH (talk) 19:02, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed, will take it out since no source has been provided in two years. W Nowicki (talk) 23:22, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Strates Shows are one of the only touring companies... 

message: Is this article only supposed to be about the original ride with a stable rotation? All the pictures show the tiliting action which seems to make them Wave swingers, or the swing carousel which redirects here, as far as I can tell does tilt too. So how about merging at least two and maybe all three of these articles? 
So is "Chair-o-planes" an older name, a brand name of some company, or name used in England? I have never heard it in the States. W Nowicki (talk) 23:23, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge?

message: The project of merging six articles in Chair-O-Planes (the standard name of all rides covered) has been successful, and we are now focusing on gathering information in order to complete the article.
--94.168.95.164 (talk) 18:30, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Merging Successful

message: Revolving swing chair rides significantly predate 1972. There are pictures of a swing chair ride at the British Empire Exhibition in 1924. The National Fairground Archives in Sheffield has many images of both stationary and travelling versions that predate 1972. Perhaps the 1972 date refers specifically to the wave swinger variant with the tilting top? 2A02:8012:AC2D:0:CAA:3953:3C6E:F614 (talk) 21:06, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  History section incorrect