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Hangar

A hangar is an enclosed structure to hold aircraft

Aircraft

An aircraft is a vehicle which is able to flight by being supported by the air, or in general, the atmosphere, of a planet. Examples include balloons, airplanes and helicopters....
in protective storage. Most hangars are built of metal, but wood and concrete are other materials used. The word hangar comes from a northern French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
dialect, and means "cattle pen."

Hangars protect aircraft from weather

Weather

Weather is a set of all the Phenomenon occurring in a given atmosphere at a given time. Weather phenomena lie in the hydrosphere and troposphere....
and ultraviolet light.

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A hangar is an enclosed structure to hold aircraft

Aircraft

French language

Weather

Weather is a set of all the Phenomenon occurring in a given atmosphere at a given time. Weather phenomena lie in the hydrosphere and troposphere....
and ultraviolet light. Hangars may be used as an enclosed repair shop or, in some cases, an assembly area. Additionally, hangars keep secret aircraft hidden from satellite

Spy satellite

A spy satellite is an Earth observation satellite or communications satellite deployed for military or espionage applications. These are essentially Space observatory that are pointed toward the Earth instead of toward the stars....
s or spyplane

Surveillance aircraft

Surveillance aircraft are military aircraft used for monitoring enemy activity, usually carrying no armament. This article concentrates on military aircraft used in this role, though a major civilian aviation activity is reconnaissance and ground surveillance for cartography, traffic monitoring, science, and geological survey....
s.

Aircraft storage halls on carrier

Aircraft carrier

An aircraft carrier is a warship designed with a primary mission of deploying and recovering aircraft, acting as a seagoing airbase. Aircraft carriers thus allow a navy force to project air power great distances without having to depend on local bases for staging aircraft operations....
s are also known as hangars.

History

Carl Rickard Nyberg used a hangar to store his Flugan
Flugan

Flugan was an early Fixed-wing aircraft designed and built by Carl Richard Nyberg outside his home in Liding?, Sweden. Construction started in 1897 and he kept working on it until 1922....
in the late 19th century and early 20th century.

In 1909, Louis Bleriot

Louis Blériot

Louis Bl?riot was a French inventor and engineer. In 1909 he completed the first flight across a large body of water in a heavier-than-air craft when he crossed the English Channel, receiving a prize of 1000 pound sterlings for doing so....
crash-landed on a northern French farm in Les Baraques (between Sangatte

Sangatte

Sangatte is a Communes of France in the Pas-de-Calais Departments of France on the northern coast of France on the English Channel.Like many place names in French Flanders, the name is of Flemish origin and means "gap in the sand"....
and Calais

Calais

Calais is a town in northern France in the Departments of France of Pas-de-Calais, of which it is a sub-prefecture. Although Calais is by far the largest city in Pas-de-Calais, the department's capital is its third-largest city of Arras....
) and rolled his monoplane

Monoplane

A monoplane is an aircraft with one main set of wing surfaces, in contrast to a biplane or triplane. Since the late 1930s it has been the "ordinary" form for a fixed wing aircraft....
into the farmer's cattle pen. At the time, Bleriot was in a race to be the first man to cross the English Channel

English Channel

The English Channel is an Arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates England from northern France, and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic. It is about long and varies in width from at its widest, to only in the Strait of Dover....
in a heavier-than-air aircraft, so he set up headquarters in the unused shed. After returning home, Bleriot called REIDsteel, the maker of the cattle pen, and ordered three "hangars" for personal use. REIDsteel continues to make hangars and hangar parts.

The Wright brothers

Wright brothers

The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur , were two United States who are generally credited with inventing and building the world's first successful fixed-wing aircraft and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air Flight#Mechanical flight, on December 17, 1903....
stored and repaired their airplane in a wooden hangar they constructed in 1902 at Kill Devil Hills in North Carolina

North Carolina

North Carolina is a U.S. state located on the Atlantic Seaboard in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north....
for their glider

Glider

Heavier-than-air unpowered aircraft do not need propulsion once airborne. Gliders, balloons and kites are unpowered aircraft.Gliders such as gliders, hang gliders and paragliders gain their initial flying speed from some launch mechanism, and then gain additional energy from gravity and from updrafts such as thermal currents....
. After completing design and construction of the Wright Flyer
Wright Flyer

The Wright Flyer was the first powered aircraft designed and built by the Wright brothers. The flight of the Wright Flyer is recognized by the F?d?ration A?ronautique Internationale, the standard setting and record-keeping body for aeronautics and astronautics, as "the first sustained and controlled heavier-than-air powered flight"....
in Ohio

Ohio

Ohio is a Midwestern United States U.S. state of the United States. As part of the Great Lakes region , Ohio has long been a cultural and geographical crossroads in North America....
, the brothers returned to Kill Devil Hill only to find their hangar damaged. They repaired the structure and constructed a new workshop while they waited for the Flyer to be shipped.

One of the largest hangars built was for the former Soviet Air Force, it has now been converted to house a rain forest. Other large hangars are Suvarnabhumi Airport in Thailand measuring 885x295x115 feet, NAS Sunnyvale in the United States measuring 1,133x308x198 feet and the Filton Aerodrome

Filton Aerodrome

Bristol Filton Airport or Filton Aerodrome lies on the border between Filton and Patchway, within South Gloucestershire, north of Bristol, England....
in Bristol

Bristol

Bristol is a City status in the United Kingdom, unitary authority area and Ceremonial counties of England in South West England, west of London, and east of Cardiff....
, England

England

Airship hangar

Airships are sheltered in airship hangars during construction and sometimes also for regular operation, particularly at bad weather conditions. The big historic, rigid airships needed always to be based in airship hangars because weather protection was crucial for them....
(also referred to as "airship sheds") are generally larger than conventional airplane hangars, particularly in terms of height. Most early airships used hydrogen

Hydrogen

Hydrogen is the chemical element with atomic number 1. It is represented by the chemical symbol H. At standard temperature and pressure, hydrogen is a colorless, odorless, nonmetallic, tasteless, highly combustion and explosive Diatomic molecule gas with the molecular formula H2....
gas to provide them with sufficient buoyancy for flight, so their hangars had to provide protection from stray sparks in order to prevent the flammable gas from exploding. Hangars that held multiple craft of this type were at risk from chain-reaction explosions. For this reason, most hangars for hydrogen-based airships were sized to house only one or two such craft.

During the "Golden Age" of airship travel (starting in 1900), mooring masts and sheds were constructed to build and house airships. The British government built a shed in Karachi

Karachi

is the largest city, seaport and the International financial centre of Pakistan. It is List of metropolitan areas by population in terms of metropolitan population, and is Pakistan's premier centre of banking, industry, and trade....
for the R101

R101

R101 was a United Kingdom rigid airship completed in 1929 as part of the Imperial Airship Scheme. After initial flights and two enlargements to the lifting volume, it crashed on October 5, 1930, in France, during its maiden overseas voyage, killing 48 people....
, and the Brazilian government built one in Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro , is the second largest city of Brazil and South America, behind S?o Paulo, and the third largest metropolitan area in South America, behind S?o Paulo and Buenos Aires....
for the German Zeppelin

Zeppelin

For the English rock group, please see Led Zeppelin. For other meanings please see Zeppelin .A Zeppelin is a type of rigid airship pioneered by the German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin in the early 20th century, based on designs he had outlined in 1874, designs he had detailed in 1893, and that were reviewed by committee in 1894, which h...
s. The largest airship hangar, at the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company

Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company was founded in 1898 by Frank Seiberling. Today it is the third largest tire company in the world after Bridgestone and Michelin....
in Akron, Ohio

Akron, Ohio

Akron is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Summit County, Ohio. In 2007, its population was estimated to be 207,934. The municipality is located in northeastern Ohio on the Cuyahoga River between Cleveland, Ohio to the north and Canton, Ohio to the south, approximately 60 miles west of the Pennsylvania border....
, was used for the construction of the USS Akron (ZRS-4)

USS Akron (ZRS-4)

For information on the 1911 airship constructed by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, also called the Akron, see Melvin Vaniman.USS Akron was a rigid helium-filled airship of the United States Navy that crashed off the New Jersey coast early on 4 April 1933, killing 73 crew and passengers....
and USS Macon (ZRS-5)

USS Macon (ZRS-5)

USS Macon was a rigid airship built and operated by the United States Navy for Reconnaissance. It served as a Airborne aircraft carrier, launching F9C Sparrowhawk....
. Its length was 1,175 ft (358 m) and its height 200 ft (61 m).

The US Navy established ten "lighter-than-air" (LTA) bases across the United States during World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
as part of the coastal defense plan. Hangars at these bases are some of the world's largest freestanding wood structures. Seven of the original seventeen hangars still exist, with one of them now housing the Tillamook Air Museum

Tillamook Air Museum

Tillamook Air Museum is an aviation museum located south of Tillamook, Oregon, Oregon at Tillamook Airport . The museum is housed in a former K class blimp hangar, called "Hangar B", which is the largest Span wooden structure in the world....
in Tillamook, Oregon

Tillamook, Oregon

The city of Tillamook is the county seat of Tillamook County, Oregon, Oregon, United States. The city is located on the southeast end of Tillamook Bay on the Pacific Ocean....
.

Sheds built for rigid airships survive at Moffett Field, Lakehurst Naval Air Station, Base Aérea de Santa Cruz (Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro

Cardington, Bedfordshire

Cardington is a village and civil parish in Bedfordshire in England, best known in connection with the Cardington airship works founded by Short Brothers during World War I, which later became an RAF base....
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