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Interview with B&M Engineer Eric Berra

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Post June 4th, 2006, 10:15 pm

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The bulk of Mr. Berra's work with B&M has been involved in development and design of the ride coaches, or "trains." After spending some time with Eric, it is evident that he is a man that solves problems by pioneering new and inventive solutions. The innovative "clamshell-like" restraint on the B&M hyper coasters is one of the most comfortable restraint designs and one of many that Eric is responsible for. He was also recently tasked to design the coaches for B&M's latest innovation, the flying coaster.......

Post June 4th, 2006, 10:21 pm

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Interesting... I wondered who made those awsome seats for B&M Hypers.
-dreams of sitting in one again-

Post June 4th, 2006, 10:22 pm

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I saw a few typo's. One in the 2nd paragraph, The company started in 1988, not 1998. ;)

Post June 4th, 2006, 10:48 pm
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I could of used this two years ago for my school interview [:-P]

I'm going to read it though.

Post June 5th, 2006, 1:31 am

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That must of been fuuny sitting at the round table and saying "Sitdowns are getting old, lets ditch the floor..."

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The B&M flyer trains and simply amazing, but they come at a price...?????????1.5 million per train. I know that of the ?????????12 million AIR cost to build, ?????????6 million of that payed for the trains

Post June 5th, 2006, 7:26 am
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Post June 5th, 2006, 9:00 am

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B&M should definitely look into the possibility of the launch.

Post June 6th, 2006, 3:42 am
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Originally posted by hyyyper

i didn't knew air was running 4 trains


Hmm... 2 station, 1 running, 1 storage? [:D]

I've only seen it running with 2 trains... Double station load, 1 in station, 1 running [:)]
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Post June 6th, 2006, 5:25 am
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rcdb.com says 3, so i kinda thought they were right about these things
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