While the menu changes often, you might encounter grilled Atlantic salmon with ginger soy ($19) or fried skate wing, dipped in honey vanilla, with cracked hazelnuts and sweet potato purée ($23.95).
I didn't have any instruments, of course, so it was hard to tell how far we rolled, but my impression was that the left wing dipped at least 45 degrees below horizontal.
Then, the plane took a brief detour to Penang, where its wing dipped left.
Tough conditions include splashing down in Lake Mead and then roaring off to fly along a deep canyon above the river, wings dipping to avoid rocky outcrops.
It is full of vivid particulars: swans that are cream puff pastries with wings dipped in icing sugar, a tarnished silver ladle the Eicher boy, Hart, polishes to give his mother, reclaimed from a Catholic rummage sale (the family is on the verge of bankruptcy), a Christmas play that the youngest and most fanciful child, Annabel, is staging.
But if a wing dips by more than five degrees, cuffs on the pilot's left or right arms will vibrate to tell him which way to correct course.
Theirs is the dream that unfolds as the seaplane's wing dips down and an island like the one plastered on the ads of some cold underground station comes to life.
SeaWorld's sister park in Orlando, Fla., opened a similarly themed Manta flying coaster in 2009 that features a wing dip splashdown across a shallow lake.
The 30-foot-tall Manta will feature dual launch zones, a 54-foot drop into a subterranean trench and a dramatic wing dip into a shallow lake over a 2,800-foot-long 2,800-foot-long 2,800-foot-long
And if turbulence causes a wing to dip by more than five degrees, a cuff on the pilot's right or left arm will vibrate to tell him which way to correct course.
