This may not be a great video, but the St. Louis Arch elevator is worth a mention. It consists of futuristic all white interior pods and a bizarre parabolic path within the arch itself.
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March 27th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
not parabolic, it resembles the path of the hyperbolic cosine.
April 1st, 2008 at 9:09 pm
Catenary curve.
August 18th, 2009 at 10:57 am
I’ve ridden this. It travels up the arch following the curve of the shaft until it reaches a point where the pod is tilted at perhaps 15 degrees, than ratchets back to a horizontal position several times during the ride.