Falcon's Flight Analysis | Six Flags Qiddiya’s 640 Foot Tall Exa-Coaster

Let's break down the entire layout for Falcon's Flight, the new tallest, fastest, and longest roller coaster in the world! It's not just surpassing the 500 foot barrier, but also the 600 foot barrier! It's so big, it's in a new class of coaster all by itself... the EXA COASTER! It's such a wild looking ride, so lets dive into what makes it so crazy!

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[CoasterStudios]

Quick correction! Did you know that the wheels on Top Thrill 2 (also on display at IAAPA) are a full 6" longer in diameter than the wheels on Falcon's Flight? 22" vs 16"!

[prologue_]

For all zero people who were wondering, Tobotronc, the world's longest alpine coaster, is still longer at 17, 389 feet. Not arguing Falcon's Flight's record, it just still blows my mind there's an alpine coaster that's that long.

[michaelonskis]

There is only one word to describe this: unbelievable.
Can’t wait to see a POV of this thing once it’s done. I still feel like it’s a dream

[airtimecannon]

I can remember seeing the first animation when this came out and I was just blown away and thought that it would never actually happen, but the fact that it’s now being built as we speak is insane to me. I can’t wait to see what it looks like once it’s done!!!!

[maxhagenauer]

I remember how much I loved Iron Rattler for its drop off the rock wall but this is on an an entirely different level.

[JakeTerch]

First off, the music in the animation is stellar!

I’ve seen a lot of comments of people saying this will be a boring coaster, but it looks like it will have several unique things going for it for those who will take the journey to ride.

The duration of the drops will feel like an eternity, especially the drop off the cliff which the video had at 10 seconds. Speed will just build and build and give you time to soak in the speed and views.

150+ miles per hour is fast in an open-air vehicle, and as someone who has pushed these speeds on a motorcycle, it is nothing short of exhilarating. The riders will get to feel this sense of speed without the risk of crashing, as well as a fair amount of lower triple-digit speeds through the rest of the layout.

Combine this with the proximity of the F1 track if the ride is operated during a race, and you have an experience that will likely never be replicated anywhere else! Real roller coaster world records will be broken once again, let’s go Intamin!

[davidvanhelden]

By length, falcons flight is as long as steel dragon 2000 and desperado combined, which are the 9th and 1st longest rollercoasters at the moment

[brianfoss]

Everything after the camelback is giving me Dododonpa vibes, honestly. The first third of the ride is like Formula Rossa's finale. Sure, it'll be fun zipping through the final S-bends and wave turn at 100+ mph. But the turn radii are so huge that the Gs will feel underwhelming compared to Velocicoaster or I-305. This could feel like a steel version of The Beast - just substituting a double helix with a 300+ foot launched ascent.

[enthusiastJD]

8:39 "I wanna do it" The most taylor thing ever i love it XD

[Coasterlocity]

I feel like that cliff section is there to separate the trains so they can run 6 effectively without stacking them.

[theunknown]

That plane ticket cost getting to the coaster when it opens finna go crazy 😂 but seriously it looks like a great ride that'll hopefully thrill and inspire generations of people in terms of amusement park engineering

[Jacob-Simonsen]

This will not only be the wildest coaster. But also one of the wildest experiences you can get on planet Earth, if this goes as planned.

[stevenschiro]

Using Roller Coaster Tycoon Logic, that first "drop" is ~600 feet, since you never go 'up', the drop just gets less steep.

Also, I can't believe that something I would have made as a kid in RCT is becoming an actual thing

[nrdythugg]

I guess it will have 6-8 sec. of continuous floater airtime, which would be insane. On that big hill I would love to have perfect 0G.

[cactustrails]

Feels like my wildest dreams of track building in roller coaster tycoon has finally come to life. This looks absolutely insane!

[andrewshaver]

After Millennium Force debuted, I naturally imagined a coaster over 400 feet. When Top Thrill Dragster opened I was psyched, but was a bit disappointed it wasnt a traditional coaster.

Since then I've been dreaming they would make something like this. I cant wait to book my flight to Riyadh.

[coastermania]

I'm curious about their contingency plan for rollbacks on that airtime hill. I'm sure it will have occasional faults that cause the LSMs to misfire or normal weather like you see with Kingda Ka. My guess is if they make a way for it to automatically self-rescue, it might have to launch backwards and possibly fast enough that it gets all the way back to the top of the cliff if it uses the momentum from the initial drop to help get to that top speed. If that's the case, that would make for one of the most epic rollback experiences ever

[maxhagenauer]

That camelback is literally the size of the St Louis arch, which somebody flew an airplane through once.

[Mononoke]

I haven’t seen the Falcons Flight train with my own eyes but on camera the train looks absolutely massive! Also something I think is super cool is that at 9:20 it makes it look like you are racing the go carts and there is go cart track right below you!

[BryanMark-mwsz]

Did you see the 22" wheels on the TT2 trains, I was speechless on how big they were, they are the same size as a juvenile mountain bike. They are HUGE!