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A while ago I went to Terme 3000 in Slovenia, they had a looped style waterpark ride. Just as crazy as is looks, I guess the tilt angle prevents major injuries? Because that slide has been open for a long time. It took no effort to clear the loop as well.
Edit: For those curious, it's a pod-style release you can see on the image, the floor disappears under your feet. The green one next to it is one of the steepest in Europe IIRC.
I think it’s more to due to the radius.
It’s hard to tell the exact size from the picture, but the diameter of that loop seems to be at least several meters.
The one at action park was like 2 wide.
A bigger circle means less G forces while going around the loop, and less injuries. But action park rides were designed and built by the owner, who was not an engineer and apparently did not know any engineers. I’m pretty sure if you mentioned angular velocity to him, he’d just say that’s a sick name for a ride and then run away to get to a hardware store as fast as possible.
The loop is also a circle, rather than the inverted teardrop shape (clothoid) it should have to spread those g-forces more evenly through the turn.