Watch the SheiKra and Kumba roller coasters in action
As vice president of design & engineering at Busch Gardens in Tampa, Fla., Mark Rose has a job many people only dream about. This Eagle Scout helps design the rides and attractions at the world-famous theme park and zoo and its neighboring water park, Adventure Island.
His right-hand man, mechanical engineer and Eagle Scout Jeff Hornick, says they “get to think about what would people really enjoy, what would they like, what would knock their socks off or what would be a great experience for them.”
In designing each ride or attraction, a lot of what Rose and Hornick do is solve problems, just one of the many job skills they say that they learned in Scouting.
Check out two of the Busch Gardens coasters in action in the videos below, then find out more about the job of roller-coaster engineer in the July 2012 issue of Boys’ Life magazine.
It looks awesome when your watchin’ it
and scary when your ridin’ it.
wow that is scary
I lost my lunch on that ride.
wow…
Both of those would make me sick
These are nothing. If you want to see something go to Cedar Point.
4 words from me,butterflys in my stomach
Lol true. There is Valravn and Raptor
wow i think i would feel a little sick afterwords.
SheiKra is teh best!!!!
coooool