I don't ride the things I design though. I've had a bad motion sickness problem since I was a little kid. But I've ridden enough of them to know what happens and how it feels.
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A mechanical engineering graduate of the University of Nevada-Reno in 1961, Toomer was involved in the first U.S. satellite launches and served on the team that designed the heat shield for the Apollo spacecraft.
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American roller coaster designer, he has been called the sovereign of steel coasters. At Arrow Dynamics (founded as Arrow Development Company in 1946) he fostered the tubular track Runaway Mine Ride (1966), the inverted helix-shaped Corkscrew (1975) at Knott's Berry Farm (Buena Park, Calif.), the Magnum XL-200 (1989) at Cedar Point (Sandusky, Ohio), and the first suspended coasters: Big Bad Wolf (1984) at Busch Gardens, Williamsburg, Va., and Cedar Point's Iron Dragon (1987). He became president of Arrow Dynamics in 1986. He retired in the late 1990s.