Swing Ride SummerFun CNE
by Lingfai Leung
Title
Swing Ride SummerFun CNE
Artist
Lingfai Leung
Medium
Photograph - Photographs
Description
Chair on A Swing Ride at Toronto Canadian National Exhibition - CNE 2008. Photographed in August 22, 2008 after sunset.
The swing ride or chair swing ride (sometimes called a swing carousel, wave swinger, yo-yo, waver swinger, Chair-O-Planes, Dodo or swinger) is an amusement ride that is a variation on the carousel in which the seats are suspended from the rotating top of the carousel. On some versions, particularly on the Wave Swingers, the rotating top of the carousel also tilts for additional variations of motion.
Swing rides were present at the earliest amusement parks. The Chair-O-Planes premiered in Germany in 1972, designed by Zierer and built by Franz Schwarzkopf, brother of Anton Schwarzkopf. In 1974 the first portable unit debuted under the same partnership. Since then Zierer has built about 200 units.Other manufacturers have followed creating their own versions of the Chair-O-Planes including Zamperla, Chance Rides, Grover Watkins, Bertazzon, Preston & Barbieri, Vekoma and Sanoyas Hishino Meisho.
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2008 Lingfai Leung
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March 15th, 2021
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