Drone Sfne Update! (2/21/16)

DISCLAIMER: I DID NOT FLY MY DRONE ON SIX FLAGS PROPERTY, AND KEPT A SAFE DISTANCE FROM THE STRUCTURES IN THE PARK. MY DRONE IS ALSO LEGALLY REGISTERED WITH THE FAA.


So today I went to the hiking trails across from SFNE with @BizarroAj and we went to the part of the trails where you see SFNE of course. Like AJ said in his post, it was quite nerve wrecking flying that thing out of the woods, as I had to fly it in and out of an opening and then avoid the trees and land it on the drones box which was used as a small landing pad. It was also hard flying it because I was nervous that one of the birds may attack it out of the air. I had a lot of fun flying it though, and hope to go again soon, and next time I am going to go a bit further and fly it more down the river. Anyways lets get into the pictures!


Here is the first picture. This is the view from the other side of the lake, up in the air. Nice shot of the entire park, and as you can see, fireball is clearly visible, and it was visible right when you approach the opening on the trails. They have put the flags up on Scream, but it seems there is only 5 flags. Either they haven't finished putting the flags up or the flag went flying off into the park....


A nice closeup of Superman. As you can see, they have yet to put the superman theming on the first tunnel cutout, as it is still yellow. I do hope they change the design of the first tunnel cutout. While its not horrible, I do think they could do better than putting Superman on the six flags sunburst design, but hey its just a cutout, they are doing a great job with superman so far.


A nice picture showing the station and the spaghetti bowl.


A lower picture of the station and spaghetti bowl. They have yet to put the superman logo on the top of the station yet....


And here is a lower shot of the station and spaghetti bowl, and zoomed in here you can see that they have yet to put the new comics in the queue, but they have put the superman symbols on the top where the comics go.


This closeup shows that they have yet to start the broken ground theming yet. Wow, it seems that SFNE has A LOT to do before opening day.



Here we can see Fireball, and it seems like they have the ride up!


Another view of the park. Its so odd seeing Superman on the other side of the river since its reversed, I've only seen it from the other direction.



Here is a closeup of Crack Axle Canyon. Since this area is so far away since I am flying it on the other side of the park this time, it is very blurry, but you can see that there is something in rodeos spot.


In this picture you can see that they are still doing work on Thunderbolt as well.


Haha! I love how they just threw the Bizarro cutout in the grass and left it. It would be funny if it was there all year.


Well thats about it. Overall I had a great time heading up there with @BizarroAj and hopefully I can do it again soon.

Here is some extra pictures...

Nice pics - thanks for sharing!

Awesome shots and theres a couple to things to note in those pics. First you can see that indeed Fireball is built at ground level which definitely makes it look more permanent than a carnival model. Second it appears the rumor i have heard about CAC is true and if you look carefully you can see that they are tearing up the stamped concrete midway and replacing it with asphalt. This is being done due to how slippery it gets when it is wet, which is what i heard. Thanks for posting these pics Dylan.

Did you happen to keep the flight pattern from the drone that you showed me after the flight?

Whoops forgot to put it in the update. Here it is.


This is the flight plan from the SFNE update flight.

Here's the video from the flight.

DISCLAIMER: I DID NOT FLY MY DRONE ON SIX FLAGS PROPERTY, AND KEPT A SAFE DISTANCE FROM THE STRUCTURES IN THE PARK. MY DRONE IS ALSO LEGALLY REGISTERED WITH THE FAA.

So today I stopped by the park since where we were going was 3 minutes away from the park. I got some nice pictures, and some update pictures of “Traffic Jam”, Tomahawk, The midway of Crack Axle Canyon, and Wicked Cyclone. Sadly I didn’t get anything of Fireball since the conditions weren’t the best. Anyways, enjoy the pictures!



First is a picture of Traffic Jam. It seems that they have the ride up, probably not finished but close.


They are getting a lot of work done with Tomahawk. Looks like its almost done.


Nice pictures of Wicked Cyclone.



Nothing new in the maintenance lot, but you can see Superman’s Chassis, like in Aj’s post.


Here is the Midway in Crack Axle Canyon. Seems like they have paved it.

Thats about it for updates. Thanks for looking! Here is some other pictures I took while I was there.

Awesome pics thanks for posting them. In the pic of the maintenance lot you can see theres only a few chassis sitting there so the rest must be inside already getting put together.