Space Mountain is one of my favorite roller coasters. I would gladly
welcome the designer to our ranks!
- Tony Drews
At 01:28 PM 1/23/2005, MDunst / Gasket Works USA wrote:
>Nomination...
>
>Mr. Bill Watkins. To the FOT
>
>Mr. Watkins has given up racing for now but, did race extensively for over a
>few months shy of 50 years. Started out in TR's.
>
>By the way.. Bill is an engineer... I had an interesting roof suspension
>problem in my garage... We traded some gasket work for Roof load suspension
>a few years ago. 'Nuff said.
>
>
>Yes, I was Chief Engineer at Disney and I designed the Space Mountain and
>Big Thunder roller coasters at Walt Disney World, Disneyland , Tokyo DL, and
>Paris along with several other rides. As for the Monorail, we rebuilt those
>with new bodies from Germany at our own company, Ride & Show Engineering, in
>San Dimas after we left Disney. We also did several other rides all over the
>world.
>
>Bill
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