X-Flight is a steel roller coaster located at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois.
Designed and built by Bolliger & Mabillard, the ride opened as the fourth Wing Coaster in the world and the second in the United States on May 16, 2012.
Six Flags Great America was the first park to announce plans for a Wing Coaster in the United States.
[2] Land clearing started that same month on the former site of Splashwater Falls and the Great America Raceway.
[7] In a Chicago Sun-Times article in February, the park said they expect safety tests to start in early April.
[13]After departing from the station, which resembles an airplane hangar, the train immediately begins to climb the steep 120-foot (37 m) chain lift hill.
Upon reaching the top of the lift hill, the train enters the first element of the roller coaster, a Dive Drop.
This element is similar to the Dive Drop's found on The Swarm at Thorpe Park and GateKeeper at Cedar Point and consists of the train rotating 180 degrees into an upside down position before descending back to the ground.
X-Flight was the fourth Wing Coaster built and the second in the United States, preceded by Wild Eagle at Dollywood.
Doug George from the Chicago Tribune stated the ride is very smooth with "rolls, dives and inverted, eye-bugging flips.