People have lengthy dreamed of flight, however solely inside the previous few years has unencumbered up-in-the-air motion over exceptional surroundings — with out strapping on wings, dangling from hot-air balloons, boarding airplanes or carrying virtual-reality goggles — turn into doable.
Say good day to flying theaters. For visuals, they use 60-foot-wide semicircular (a.ok.a. hemispherical) screens, extraordinarily high-definition cameras. For audio, surround-sound and unique music. For motion, seats that generate an intense sensation of movement. The ultimate touches: breezes that rustle guests’ hair, mist that drifts about and pure scents that waft by the air. Thus is the multidimensional phantasm of flight born.
And the fascination continues to develop. Within the final three years, a number of extra flying-theater sights have opened in cities around the globe.
Here's a pre-flight tour of a few of them.
Canada
At Canada Place in Vancouver, company are handled to FlyOver Canada, grand Canadian vistas on the theater’s 65-foot-wide hemispherical display within the dramatic eight-minute flight. Websites embody Toronto, the Rockies, Niagara Falls and Churchill, Manitoba, recognized for polar bears.
In celebration of Halloween in October, computer-generated ghosts roam Canada’s landscapes. In December Santa’s elves go to the Canadian countryside; this system ends with a 90-second CGI flight to the North Pole.
Information:Fly Over Canada
United States
The group that made FlyOver Canada created FlyOver America on the Mall of America close to Minneapolis three years later.
Aviator-guests fly over Hawaii, Alaska, San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, canyons of Utah, Florida Keys, wetlands, waterfalls, vivid autumn-colored forests and extra. (FlyOver America can also be proven for four-to-six weeks throughout spring at FlyOver Canada’s theater in Vancouver.)
Information:FlyOver America
The world
Disney changed Soarin’ Over California at Disney’s California Journey and Epcot with Soarin’ Over the World in 2016.
The world tour flies over the American Southwest’s Monument Valley, Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, India’s Taj Mahal, the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Sydney Harbour in Australia, the Nice Wall of China, Switzerland’s Matterhorn and Germany’s Neuschwanstein Fort, the inspiration for Sleeping Magnificence’s fortress.
Information: In Anaheim, California Journey Hovering Across the World. In Orlando, Fla., Epcot Soarin’ Across the World
The attraction is also at Shanghai Disneyland in China beneath the identify Hovering Over the Horizon. The preshow will get religious by attempting to faucet into “historic primal powers” whereas company comply with a path to the celestial observatory of a fictional tribe, and a “shaman” calls the spirit of a condor to assist company fly within the semicircular theater.
Information: Shanghai Disneyland Hovering
On July 23 the identical attraction, renamed Hovering: Implausible Flight, is to open at Toyko DisneySea. This preshow honors a fictional nineteenth century girl explorer who supposedly created the Renaissance-style four-person Dream Flyers wherein guests take to the air.
Information: Tokyo DisneySea Hovering Implausible Flight
Washington state
Wings Over Washington, which opened in 2016 at Miner’s Touchdown at Pier 57 close to Waterfront Park in Seattle, creates the sense of flying with the large display, wind, surround-sound and refined scents whereas a spirit eagle leads company over Mt. Rainier, the Cascades, the San Juan Islands and thru a hot-air balloon competition.
Information: Wings Over Washington
Europe
Germany’s Voletarium on the Europa-Park theme park in Rust close to the Swiss and French borders is billed as Europe’s largest flying theater. With a 67-foot-wide display and pictures shot with eight occasions extra decision than common full-high-def, the four-minute expertise carries fliers throughout Europe, together with Venice, Italy; Paris; the fiords of Norway; and the ever-popular Matterhorn and Neuschwanstein Fort.
Information:Voletarium
Netherlands
Shortly after the Voletarium opened, Amsterdam’s nine-minute This Is Holland premiered and let guests fly over fields of flowers (whereas inhaling their scent), canals, gardens, seashores, windmills, even a hot-air balloon formed like a windmill.
Information: That is Holland
San Francisco
The Flyer, which opened in February at Pier 39 in San Francisco, could not elevate seats into the air, however the 3D glasses, gusts and large display create a flying roller-coaster-like thrill trip as guests speed up, decelerate, dive and switch wildly with an animated racing seagull zooming round San Francisco, the Marin Headlands north of the town, and the Golden Gate Bridge.
Information: The Flyer
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