ohiocolts Posted March 24, 2013 Posted March 24, 2013 Yesterday, my dad’s friend invited us over for a ride aroundthe Tri-State on his club’s plane. It was a really nice day, pretty oddconsidering there’s going to be snow today. But that’s Ohio weather. Setting up and checking to make sure the plane was readyseemed complicated. I really didn’t understand much of it. The takeoff was alot of fun, kind of like a long Flight of Fear launch. First, we passed over myhouse, my school, and some of the baseball fields I play on. There were a lotof baseball fields. Next we flied towards Kings Island. First thing I noticed ishow much space Son of Beast took up. (These are all screenshots from a video) Thunder Alley is just a dirt oval now. The water tower isalso clearly gone, but the paint that was under it still remains. After that, we took a quick fly to downtown Cincinnati. Then we headed back to the airport. I admit I got a bitmotion sick towards the end, but I felt better after we landed. Hope youenjoyed, and thanks for reading! 27 Quote
flightoffear1996 Posted March 24, 2013 Posted March 24, 2013 Awesome! Downtown Cincinnati looks so small from up there. 2 Quote
malem Posted March 24, 2013 Posted March 24, 2013 Wow, amazing photos! Thanks a lot for sharing! 2 Quote
Original Posted March 24, 2013 Posted March 24, 2013 I saw one of your other pictures today and knew you would post more here. Thanks, looks really cool! I was just at the us bank arena a couple days ago, nice pics. 3 Quote
faeriewench Posted March 24, 2013 Posted March 24, 2013 I love flying, but I'll be honest I prefer the big jets Neat shots! Sonny was really massive. 4 Quote
Thrill_Biscuit Posted March 24, 2013 Posted March 24, 2013 Your Cincinnati shots remind me of classic "Sim City!" Great pictures! 1 Quote
SonofBaconator Posted March 24, 2013 Posted March 24, 2013 The Action Zone looks unreal. Great photo's ohiocolts! 2 Quote
stashua123 Posted March 24, 2013 Posted March 24, 2013 Looks like A LOT of land clearing in Action Zone! Thanks for sharing ohiocolts! EDIT: maybe you could send these pics to bing so they can update their birds eye view! EDIT2: Can you upload the video to YouTube? 2 Quote
jcgoble3 Posted March 24, 2013 Posted March 24, 2013 Great shots! I never realized just how far back Diamondback goes. And SOB took up a lot more space than I thought. Thanks! 1 Quote
CoasterBob62 Posted March 24, 2013 Posted March 24, 2013 Thanks for sharing these great photos! I wish I would've taken advantage of the helicopter rides they offered several years ago. but I couldn't afford it. 1 Quote
TombRaiderFTW Posted March 24, 2013 Posted March 24, 2013 This is awesome! Thanks for sharing! 1 Quote
Elkman Posted March 24, 2013 Posted March 24, 2013 Great Photos. Going to feel really weird riding Flight Deck next to that giant clearing of dirt. AE too. 1 Quote
BB1 Posted March 24, 2013 Posted March 24, 2013 Man, it reminds me of my day on the "tin can" (AKA Tin Goose), great photos! 1 Quote
PKIDelirium Posted March 24, 2013 Posted March 24, 2013 The helicopter tour they had through the end of 2003 was something like $35 for a basic park tour. The helipad was next to FOF where Firehawk's queue entrance and such is now. Quote
MDMC01 Posted March 24, 2013 Posted March 24, 2013 Thanks for the pics, ohiocolts. I also didn't realize how massive SoB was. The Cincy pictures were cool too; I especially like the 5th one. 1 Quote
McSalsa Posted March 25, 2013 Posted March 25, 2013 Wow, awesome pictures...seeing a big empty field of dirt where SOB and Thunder Alley were is going to be weird... 2 Quote
DontWantToWait42mar0 Posted March 25, 2013 Posted March 25, 2013 I'm going to have to do this one day!! Nice shots bro 1 Quote
Jr for Birdy Posted March 25, 2013 Posted March 25, 2013 I love the pics,I can almost smell the smells from GABP! It wont be much longer. 1 Quote
Voicetek Posted March 25, 2013 Posted March 25, 2013 Wow awesome pictures! Not many of us will get the chance to experience these places from that viewpoint. Thanks for sharing! 1 Quote
SupremoSteveo Posted March 25, 2013 Posted March 25, 2013 Great pics! I can't get over all that prime real estate where SOB sat. Can't wait to see the plans for that area. 2 Quote
CedarPointer Posted March 25, 2013 Posted March 25, 2013 Your Cincinnati shots remind me of classic "Sim City!" Great pictures! Now it looks like modern SimCity! 11 Quote
ohiocolts Posted March 25, 2013 Author Posted March 25, 2013 Thanks everyone! And here's the video. 8 Quote
The Interpreter Posted March 25, 2013 Posted March 25, 2013 For those of us on phones, tablets, etc, can you post an http (no s) link? We'd love to see it! 1 Quote
TheBEASTunchained Posted March 25, 2013 Posted March 25, 2013 I hope our fellow KIC member "CoasterBob62" does his annual video this year for Opening Day 2013 at Kings Island. 4 Quote
malem Posted March 26, 2013 Posted March 26, 2013 Great footage - thanks again, ohiocolts! ^^ IPB automatically converts YouTube links and URLs into embedded videos, which happen to break when this site is used in a mobile browser. (This is a limitation of the IPB YouTube plugin, not of YouTube's embedding code. IPB assumes falsely that all devices have Flash.) Here's a non-linkified URL: youtube.com/watch?v=_X9WW4YAHao Quote
The Interpreter Posted March 26, 2013 Posted March 26, 2013 I hear you, yet there have recently been several embedded YouTube videos that DID appear here on nonFlash devices. Quote
CoasterBob62 Posted March 29, 2013 Posted March 29, 2013 I hope our fellow KIC member "CoasterBob62" does his annual video this year for Opening Day 2013 at Kings Island. I'll be there opening day. I never used to like going on opening day because of the large crowds, but it's been fun doing these videos, so I'll be there for sure! It was cool to see these photos and get an idea of what we can expect to see next month. 5 Quote
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