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Sir Hiram Maxim's Flying Machines is a working flying-machine attraction from 1904 and a Grade II listed landmark at Pleasure Beach Resort.
Sir Hiram Maxim's Flying Machines feels less like a standard family ride and more like a living piece of amusement-park history. The suspended vehicles circle a central structure and recreate early dreams of flight from long before flying became ordinary. That is exactly why the attraction still stands out: you are riding through an idea from the dawn of aviation.
Pleasure Beach Resort lists 0 cm when accompanied and 3 ft 10 in for solo riding on Flying Machines. Coasterpedia identifies the attraction as Sir Hiram Maxim's Captive Flying Machine, opening on August 1, 1904. Historic England describes the Grade II listed ride as a 1904 amusement attraction with an elevated timber boarding platform wrapped around a central vertical drive shaft.
The ride is built around the early dream of controlled flight, letting visitors glide in suspended machines around a central mast.
Based on available measurements and historical wait-time data.
Spread of wait times, outage duration, and the number of outages per day based on available historical data.
615 measurements
Typical wait time: around 5 min.
It usually falls between 5 min and 10 min.
See more than 10 min? It is probably busier than usual — consider a quieter moment.
Less than 5 min? You are in luck: that does not happen often.
4 outages
On average, an outage lasts about 20 min.
In three out of four cases, the attraction reopens within 36 min.
If it takes longer, expect extra waiting time.
2 days
On days with outages, we see an average of 2 per day.
That usually falls between 2 and 2.
On quiet days it was 2, on busy days up to 2.
Today compared with historical wait times by hour.
