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BASE jumpers Miles Daisher and Xu Kai leap from the platform in 2015.  A larger BASE event is planned for April, 2016.
 
BASE jumpers Miles Daisher and Xu Kai leap from the platform in 2015.  A larger BASE event is planned for April, 2016.
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Revision as of 23:49, 22 July 2016

Longgang Viewing Platform
云阳龙缸悬挑玻璃景观廊桥
Yunyang, Chongqing, China
(656) feet high / (200) meters high
70 foot span / 21 meter span
2015

LonggangCompletion.jpg


The highest and most spectacular of China’s many viewing platforms, the Longgang overlook has U-shaped steel box beams that support glass panels allowing for a vertiginous view of the 718 meter drop to the Shisun River. Despite the obvious similarities to the Grand Canyon Skywalk in Arizona, the owners gave their skywalk shape an extra inside curve giving the path an S-shape. The cantilevered section is 21 meters with the total length extending about 27 meters.

The Longgang viewing platform height has not been measured but the vertical drop from the platform tip may be significantly higher then 200 meters making it quite possibly the highest skywalk/glasswalk platform in the world. The elevational difference is 718 meters with the platform at 1123 meters above sea level and the river surface at 405 meters.


LonggangHoreshoe.jpg



LonggangDroneAerial.jpg


LonggangStraightDown.jpg


LonggangFromBelow.jpg


Longgang&Cliff.jpg


LonggangCrowd.jpg


LonggangFromAbove.jpg


LonggangConstruction.jpg


LonggangDrop.jpg


LonggangHoreshoeGlass.jpg


LonggangEarlyMorning.jpg


LonggangPlatformJump.jpg

BASE jumpers Miles Daisher and Xu Kai leap from the platform in 2015. A larger BASE event is planned for April, 2016.


HubeiPlatformDroneHigh.jpg


HubeiPlatformDrone.jpg


HubeiPlatformDroneDrop.jpg


LonggangDrawingWide.jpg


LonggangDrawing.jpg


LonggangPlatformDesign.jpg


LonggangDrawing2.jpg


LonggangPlatformSatellite.jpg

Longgang Viewing Platform satellite image.


LonggangPlatformLocationMap.jpg

Longgang Viewing Platform location map.


LonggangPlatformLocationMapWide.jpg