Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same experience is becoming available to the general public. Following the lead of Disneyland, which used four full-scale flight simulators in 1987 to create its wildly popular Star Tours ride, the biggest amusement parks are adapting state-of-the-art technology to do with computers what used to be done with Ferris wheels and roller coasters. Says David Fink, director of research and development for Disney's Imagineering division: "It's the wave of the future for theme parks...
Link's AH-64 Apache helicopter simulator, perhaps the world's most sophisticated, combines mock flight with battle effects so realistic that a visitor needs security clearance to ride it. When a trainee is struck by enemy fire, he actually feels the hit. Indeed, the simulation can be dangerously % realistic. "We had to turn this one down," says Ray McCabe, flight- simulation supervisor at the Army's Fort Bragg. "We had a lot of guys lose teeth or have their nose broken from the impact...
...most popular simulator, Disneyland's Star Tours, poses no such hazards. As many as 27,000 people a day wait between 45 minutes and two hours for a chance to take a 4 1/2-minute imaginary excursion to the Moon of Endor. They are rewarded with a nonstop thrill ride in which a mock spaceship climbs, banks and even reaches the speed of light -- all with white-knuckle realism. "This is easily the most popular ride," says Bob Roth, manager of publicity for the park. "On a roller coaster, you have the lingering feeling that...
...imagined, will seem credible chiefly to the already converted, among whom are surely people who also believe that Martians are sending them messages through the fillings in their teeth. There is a simpler possibility that Libra inventively skirts: a frustrated, angry man looked out a window, watched the President ride by, and shot him dead...
...ticket to ride, or honk if you love astronauts. At an Ohio delegation party, perennial Vice-Presidential Also-Ran John Glenn presented Lloyd Bentsen with a red-white-and-blue bumper sticker reading DUKAKIS GLENN. An overoptimistic Glenn supporter had ordered up 10,000, and the Ohio Senator was intent on unloading them. "Since I park next to you in the Senate garage," he informed Bentsen, "I'll expect to see it every...