Left orbit, top orbit, ramp? If yes, then yes. Don't remember the crazy whistle noise though, feel like I'm missing out.

Many,many times :DOf course I've owned the game for over 20 years

I did it directly into a multiball one time!!! I needed the left ramp shot to start multiball and managed to get the 3 way combo to start it. The siren went off and then I felt the power of the wind!!!

Yes, a few random times but always by accident lol! Very cool when you do get it. Congrats!

Should be worth more than 250000 though!

Not worth a ton of points, but it does make the game sing Love that shot combo.

Air raid

It should totally be worth 3 million!
And I've only hit it 4 times since I bought my whirlwind.
Love the siren.

I don't think I've hit it before unless I didn't notice it but I've only owned mine a month. Is it the left orbit through the low pop bumpers, then the right orbit with the spinner and then the ramp?

LOL!! Yeah I've hit it...SCARED the crap outta me the first time!!! I thought I broke my game!!

Phoebe

Noticed this thread and played hard for the last hour. I am now officially a member. Woohoo!

I've done it a few times. Very difficult and worth barely any points in comparison to how hard it is to do.

-BB

I did accomplish this once after I dialed in the alignment on my flippers. The sense of accomplishment is awesome. I totally threw my arms in the air and celebrated...and promptly drained.

The score is a joke for that combo, but I guess that isn't really the point of it.

Yup...I've made the shot a few times + also. Told myself once I could 'beat' the game(all cellar hole awards) AND get the 3 way combo I could sell it....and I did. : ) Fun game.

Would take longer to unload and setup than to "beat" it??? Very fun game but not terribly difficult to complete all the cellar awards and do a three way combo.

yep. feels great when you hit it.

Very satisfying shot.

Didn't know it existed until I hit it once by accident. I'm not very good and haven't been able to do it since then.

When I try to hit it I never can. When I do hit it its when I am not even thinking about it.

Add me in!!

A storm chaser's dream sound...trust me That side ramp shot is a toughy because the flipper coil barely has enough ooomph to do it. I can hit the TAF side ramp 5-10 times a game no problem, but the WW side ramp needs perfect timing and ball velocity (and you dont have the starting position like the Thing eject scoop).

I have noticed the same thing. Seems like the quick tap send it through with more power. I figured maybe I hit it more precisely when doing a quick tap. Is there any mechanical explanation for why a quick tap would be more effective?

One of my favorite shots in all of pinball! I miss my WW.

I have actually always wondered this myself. I first noticed it back when Whitewater was new and our local one would get dirty/tired. The quick tap was absolutely necessary to make insanity falls whereas a hold would just miss the apex every time. I don't believe it's a phenomenon a lot of people know/realize, and I know it's helped me out in tournaments more than once.

Good to know. Thanks Keith. I've learned something new!

Being a physicist, I now want to crack open a pin and stick an oscilloscope on things. (Pity I don't own one, a location player am I.) The only way that depressing the flipper for less time should increase power is if there's odd transients in the electrical system as the flippers engage and disengage, fairly possible if there's two flippers on the same circuit.

Otherwise, the up-stroke should be identical.

Does this only happen on side flippers?

I too notice that the "quick flip" seems to get more power out of the top flipper when trying to hit the millions ramp.
Could it have anything to do with the leaf switches on the flipper buttons?
Maybe the tungsten points aren't getting as "burned" on the top flipper portion of the leaf switch therefore allowing a faster flow of electricity to trigger the upper flipper coil?
Now i wish i was a physicist.

After I rebuilt my flippers and converted them to the WPC style, this shot is much easier. Maybe worth trying?

Could be eddy currents from the lower coil interacting with the upper coil.

Also in the 3 way club. I have been thinking of making a little air raid siren mod that spins and lights up when you get it, but it happens so infrequently I think the mod would go mostly unused.

I just hit a three way with 2 different balls!! I had a ball locked for quick multiball and fired the ball out of the shooter lane but it went to my flippers without touching anything so the quick multiball had not started yet. I hit the left loop with the ball on my flipper. It triggered the ball to start to come out of the quick mulitball hole, but while it did the light show I hit the upper loop with the ball that I had hit the left loop with but then i missed the side ramp with that ball. At basically the same time the other ball finally makes it out of the quick mulitball hole and i nail it up the ramp before the other ball had a chance to hit anything. I thought is was pretty cool!

I did it once some how in regular multiball. I know it was not a legit 3 way, but it was still cool.

I was playing a few games, badly. finely my 5th game I start getting somewhere.
I have the million shot lit. miss it from the saucer under the ramp. I hit the cellar and the ramp drops. I cradle the ball on the right flipper and go for the left orbit through the lower pops.
I nail the 3 way combo with a million shot. i ended up putting up a new high score. ahh. that's what the doctor ordered.

I used to have a Whirlwind and made a goal of achieving the 3-way combo where each of the 3 shots would also give me progress on the compass. Now mine was setup factory-hard with 3 balls and no extra balls. And on that setup you only have 2 chances to pull it off. I believe it is during build up for the first lock of the second multi-ball and the first lock of the third multi-ball.

For each of these two setups, making one or two shot but not the whole combo, that chance to do it is lost for that game of course.

Now here is the thing. I did it - after I'd made an agreement to sell the machine. And literelly the night before the day it was going out the door. Finally nailed it.

Its an awesome combo shot!

This shot has been on my "pinball bucket list" and I thought I would have to wait until I owned one to hit the combo. Turns out I made it happen on location at Game Galaxy in Nashville it was incredibly satisfying. I love Whirlwind!

My 16 year old nails the 3-way to often, just to annoy me.

Just joined the club. I started multiball from the combo. I didn't realize that I pulled it off until I heard the siren. Really cool rush!

Sign me up. The combo is deeply satisfying.