Kirnu

Kirnu
Linnanmäki
Location	Linnanmäki
Coordinates	60°11′18″N 24°56′24″E / 60.18833°N 24.94000°E / 60.18833; 24.94000Coordinates: 60°11′18″N 24°56′24″E / 60.18833°N 24.94000°E / 60.18833; 24.94000
Status	Operating
Opening date	April 27, 2007
Cost	About 3 million euros.
General statistics
Type	Steel – 4th Dimension
Manufacturer	Intamin
Designer	Werner Stengel
Model	ZacSpin
Height	83.4 ft (25.4 m)
Length	465.11 ft (141.77 m)
Speed	37 mph (60 km/h)
Inversions	0
Duration	1:00
Capacity	640 riders per hour
G-force	2.6
Height restriction	55 in (140 cm)
Kirnu at RCDB Pictures of Kirnu at RCDB

Kirnu (Finnish for Butter churn) is a steel roller coaster located at the Linnanmäki amusement park in Helsinki, Finland. Kirnu is Intamin's first ball coaster.

Layout[]

The ride starts as riders climb the curved lift hill followed by a quick pre-drop and immediately go into a sharp half loop and then go through another half loop and finally another half loop before being slowed back down by near-vertical magnetic brakes, and then finally doing a quarter loop and then returning to the station.

Notability[]

As Intamin's first ball coaster, it changed the way Finnish rollercoasters were viewed. The ride has since inspired new ZacSpin Roller Coasters

Incidents[]

On May 16, 2007, a man injured his leg on Kirnu and its brakes were renewed.^[1]

After the deadly incident on Inferno at Terra Mítica in Benidorm, Spain on July 7, 2014,^[2][3] and because the two rides have an identical layout, Linnanmäki had ceased running Kirnu for several days before reopening the coaster.^[4]

References[]

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