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2. Hangar - Wikipedia

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   A hangar is a building or structure designed to hold aircraft or spacecraft. Hangars are built of metal, wood, or concrete. The word hangar comes from Middle French hanghart ("enclosure near a house"), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *haimgard ("home-enclosure", "fence around a group of houses"), from *haim ("home, village, hamlet") and gard ...

3. Underground hangar - Wikipedia

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   This required that these new hangars be much deeper, with 25 to 30 meters of rock cover, and heavy-duty blast doors in concrete. [11] The Saab 37 Viggen aircraft was designed with a folding tail fin to fit into low hangars. The Aeroseum, an aircraft museum open to the public in Gothenborg, is housed in the larger cold war era Underground Hangar ...

4. Bellman hangar - Wikipedia

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   The Bellman Hangar was designed in the United Kingdom in 1936 by the Directorate of Works structural engineer, N. S. Bellman, as a temporary aircraft hangar capable of being erected or dismantled by unskilled labour with simple equipment and to be easily transportable. Commercial manufacturing rights were acquired by Head Wrightson & Co of ...

5. Hardened aircraft shelter - Wikipedia

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   Hardened aircraft shelter at RAF Bruggen, 1981 The HASs at RAF Upper Heyford in the United Kingdom are protected as scheduled monuments.. A hardened aircraft shelter (HAS) or protective aircraft shelter (PAS) is a reinforced hangar to house and protect military aircraft from enemy attack.

6. Category:Aircraft hangars in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Aircraft hangars on the National Register of Historic Places (22 P) Pages in category "Aircraft hangars in the United States" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.

7. Cardington Airfield - Wikipedia

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   The site started life as a private venture when aircraft manufacturing company Short Brothers bought land there to build airships for the Admiralty.It constructed a 700-foot-long (210 m) Airship hangar (the No. 1 Shed) in 1915 to enable it to build two rigid airships, the R-31 and the R-32.