Nighthawk (roller Coaster)
Nighthawk is a steel flying roller coaster built by Vekoma at Carowinds in Charlotte. North Carolina. It originally opened as Stealth at Paramount's Great America on April 1, 2000. Stealth was the first flying roller coaster of its kind in the world. Paramount closed the ride in 2003 after deciding to relocate the roller coaster. It reopened as BORG Assimilator – the first coaster in the world to be themed to Star Trek – at Carowinds on March 20, 2004. After Cedar Fair purchased Carowinds in 2006, Paramount themes were soon removed from the park. As a result, the ride became known as Nighthawk. It is one of only three Flying Dutchman models in existence from Vekoma.
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“It was the most wild and desolate region we had camped in, where, if anywhere, one might expect to meet with befitting inhabitants, but I heard only the squeak of a nighthawk flitting over. The moon in her first quarter, in the fore part of the night, setting over the bare rocky hills garnished with tall, charred, and hollow stumps or shells of trees, served to reveal the desolation.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)