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Bridge Day is the only day of the year people are allowed to BASE jump [1] [6] off the bridge into the New River Gorge 876 feet (267 meters) below, one of the few exceptions to a general ban on BASE jumping within the U.S. National Park System. People are also allowed to rappel from the span on Bridge Day. [1]
Pelkey made his second jump on October 15, 2005, at the 26th annual Bridge Day event where he and Shubert were attending as guest speakers. Pelkey's planned third jump at the 27th annual Bridge Day in 2006 was unperformed due to the death of Schubert, from a parachute malfunction, [ 2 ] moments before Pelkey's jump.
The New River Gorge Bridge is a steel arch bridge 3,030 feet (924 m) long over the New River Gorge near Fayetteville, West Virginia, in the Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States. With an arch 1,700 feet (518 m) long, the New River Gorge Bridge was the world's longest single-span arch bridge for 26 years; [ 4 ] [ 5 ] it is now the ...
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KS-1: Half-Mound Bridge Demolished Baltimore truss: 1900 1981 CR 1325 Delaware River: Valley Falls: Jefferson: KS-2: Meriden Rock Creek Bridge Replaced Bowstring arch truss: 1879 1981 Rock Creek Meriden: Jefferson
Barrackville Covered Bridge. This is a list of West Virginia covered bridges. There are 17 historic wooden covered bridges in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Only three of these bridges were built before 1870 and they are the three longest in the state. Each uses a standard truss design, braced with the Burr Arch. No one-truss design dominates ...
Blacksmith Creek Bridge: 1930 1983-03-10 Topeka: Shawnee: Bridge No. 218-Off System Bridge: 1940 2008-03-16 Beaver: Barton: Bridge No. 222-Off System Bridge: 1940 2008-07-8 Beaver: Barton: Bridge No. 640-Federal Aid Highway System Bridge: 1940 2008-7-8 Beaver
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