| Jumbo Jet | |
| Location: | Six Flags Great Adventure |
| Replacement: | Super Cat Alpen Blitz |
| Type: | Steel |
| Status: | Removed |
| Manufacturer: | Anton Schwarzkopf |
| Designer: | Werner Stengel |
| Model: | Jet Star 3 / Jumbo Jet |
| Lift: | Electric spiral lift |
| Height Ft: | 56 |
| Inversions: | 0 |
| Rcdb Number: | 1834 |
Jumbo Jet was a prefabricated steel roller coaster located within the Fun Fair section of Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey. Erected in 1975, the attraction was an example of the Jet Star 3 / Jumbo Jet model line designed by Werner Stengel and manufactured by Anton Schwarzkopf.[1]
The ride was the first Jet Star 3 / Jumbo Jet model coaster to be built in the state of New Jersey.[2] Unlike typical chain lifted or launched roller coasters, this model reached the first drop by way of small wheel motors that drove it up the incline of a helix.[3] Electric spiral lift coasters, which became very common in the 1970s, differed from later steel roller coaster designs in track gauge.[4]
Contemporary press accounts quote Great Adventure Vice President of Operations Robert Minick as saying that Jumbo Jet was "the largest ready-made roller coaster that [could] be bought".[5] The coaster was leased from Willy Miller's Continental Park Attractions, along with several other rides in the Fun Fair section.[6]
Assembled in the spring of 1975, the ride stood idle for weeks, never to be operated or opened to the public, before being dismantled one month later.[7]
The ultimate fate of the ride remains unknown.[6] Although Roller Coaster DataBase once proposed that it might be the Jumbo Jet at Morey's Piers,[8] [9] evidence exists that the latter attraction was in fact purchased in Germany.[10] [11] RCDB later listed the Canadian National Exhibition as another possible site at which the ride may have operated.[1]