ALL Crane & Equipment Rental Provides Jumping Platform for BASE Jumpers at Bridge Day 2009, New River Gorge Bridge.Watch the Video on YouTube at www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9RQF RQF Research Quality Framework RQF Rescue Flight RQF Regulatory Query Form (offshore industry, Canada) 76oGLo CLEVELAND -- For the third time since 2003, ALL Crane & Equipment Rental Corp. of New Albans, West Virginia West Virginia, E central state of the United States. It is bordered by Pennsylvania and Maryland (N), Virginia (E and S), and Kentucky and, across the Ohio R., Ohio (W). Facts and Figures Area, 24,181 sq mi (62,629 sq km). Pop. , a member of the ALL Family of Companies, was chosen to provide a boom truck for the BASE jumping BASE jumping Sports medicine An extreme sport in which participants jump–with parachute-from 4 types of structures that constitute the acronym: Buildings, Antennas, Spans–bridges, Earth–cliffs event at the annual Bridge Day celebration at the New River Gorge Bridge Noun 1. New River Gorge Bridge - a steel arch bridge across New River at Fayetteville, West Virginia Fayetteville - a town in central West Virginia on the New River in Fayetteville, West Virginia Fayetteville is a town in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 2,754 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Fayette CountyGR6. . A platform extending from the truck bed of the 23.5-ton capacity Terex Model BT4792 provided the launch point for all-day BASE jumps from the 876-ft-tall bridge. The truck's boom dangled a manbasket over the gorge to hold photographers and videographers recording the events. In one of the most extreme of extreme sports extreme sports Sports events characterized by high speed or high risk. Such sports include aggressive inline skating, wakeboarding, street luge, skateboarding, and freestyle bicycle events (wherein tricks such as back flips are performed on a bicycle). , trained BASE (Building, Antenna, Span, and Earth) jumpers leap from any or all of these four fixed objects with parachutes designed specifically for rapid deployment. Jumpers must first skydive sky·dive intr.v. sky·dived, sky·div·ing, sky·dives To jump and fall freely from an airplane, performing various maneuvers before pulling the ripcord of a parachute. numerous times from aircraft before attempting to BASE jump. At Bridge Day 2009, thousands of onlookers gathered on the world's second-longest single-arch bridge to watch 360 jumpers vault off the span. "We are excited to have participated once again in what is known as 'the state's biggest party,'" said Chad Shamblin, General Manager of ALL Crane & Equipment Rental. "We do our part to make sure the jumpers and photographers have the safest possible conditions," he emphasized. Watch the video on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9RQF76oGLo. About ALL Since 1964, the ALL Family of Companies has grown to become one of the largest crane and equipment rental companies in North America. The company offers its fleet of cranes, aerial work platforms, boom trucks, material handlers, and other lift equipment from strategic locations, providing rental, sales, service, and jobsite analysis to help customers get the right equipment for the job. For more information, call ALL Crane, 4700 Acorn Drive, Cleveland, OH 44131. Phone: 216-524-6550. Toll free: 800-232-4100. Fax: 216-642-7633. On the Web: www.allcrane.com. |
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