Jumbo Jet (Morey's Piers)

Jumbo Jet
File:Jumbo Jet at Morey's Piers.jpg Jumbo Jet in its later years.
Morey's Piers
Location	Morey's Piers
Status	Removed
Opening date	1976
Closing date	1987
Replaced by	Jet Star
General statistics
Type	Steel
Manufacturer	Anton Schwarzkopf
Designer	Ing.-Büro Stengel GmbH
Model	Jet Star 3 / Jumbo Jet
Lift/launch system	Electric spiral lift
Height	56 ft (17 m)
Length	2,854 ft (870 m)
Speed	50 mph (80 km/h)
Inversions	0
Duration	2:23
Capacity	1,200 riders per hour
Jumbo Jet at RCDB

The Jumbo Jet was a Schwarzkopf roller coaster that opened in 1976. It was one of the most popular rollercoaster in Wildwood. Morey's Surfside Pier had to be extended to make room for the Jumbo Jet. The Jumbo Jet was 56 feet high and went 50 mph. The ride was sold in 1987 to a German broker who sold the ride to Gorky Park in Moscow for two rail cars of Ketchup.

Ride set-up

The coaster was a prefabricated roller coaster with an electric spiral lift mechanism. It was one of the first coasters in the world to utilize this particular lift mechanism. The Jumbo Jet, like all electric spiral lift roller coasters, reached the top of its lift hill by way of a gently-graded spiraling helix, before beginning its first drop. Unlike many roller coasters, which utilize a chain lift or launch, the Jumbo Jet was propelled with small wheel motors up the incline of the helix.These sort of coasters soon became a very common type of steel roller coaster in the 1970s, and were distinguished from later steel roller coaster designs that were characterized by their thicker, tubular-steel tracks.

Rumors

• It is believed that the Jumbo Jet at Morey's Piers was the same Jumbo Jet (Great Adventure) that was in Great Adventure Jackson, New Jersey.