Galactica is the flying coaster in Forbidden Valley at Alton Towers. Bolliger & Mabillard built it as their first flying coaster, and it opened in 2002 as Air before taking the name Galactica in 2016. Over 840 m of track the trains reach 75 km/h, run through two inversions and pull up to 3.5 g, in a ride of about 1 minute 40. The virtual reality headsets used at first are gone. Minimum height is 140 cm.
Galactica opened in 2002 as Air, marketed as the world's first flying coaster. In 2016 it was rethemed as Galactica, with optional VR headsets that were removed in 2019.
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