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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.
The floating hangar turned into the direction of the wind on its own and so it was easier to move the airship into the hangar exactly against the wind. For the same reason later rotating hangars were built at Biesdorf (today part of Berlin ) and at the Nordholz Airbase , to the south of Cuxhaven in Germany .
The airship hangar is constructed on a network of steel girders sheathed with galvanized steel, and rests firmly upon a reinforced pad anchored to concrete pilings. The airship hangar structure measures 1,133 feet (343 m) long and 308 feet (93 m) wide, and the floor covers eight acres (32,000 m 2) (the same size as six football fields).
The last airship built in the airdock was the U.S. Navy's ZPG-3W in 1960. The building later housed the photographic division of the Goodyear Aerospace Corporation. In 1980, the Goodyear Airdock was designated a Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers. Interior of the Goodyear Airdock, May 1985
USS Macon in Hangar One on October 15, 1933, following a transcontinental flight from Lakehurst, New Jersey. The hangar's interior is so large that fog sometimes forms near the ceiling. [2] Standard gauge tracks run through the length of the hangar. During the period of lighter-than-air dirigibles and non-rigid aircraft, the rails extended ...
Hangar No. 1 is an airship hangar located at Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst in Manchester Township, in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States.It was the intended destination of the rigid airship LZ 129 Hindenburg prior to the Hindenburg disaster on May 6, 1937, when it burned while landing.
In October, 2013, part of the roof collapsed, damaging the airship prototype. [8] There was interest in making one of the hangars a military museum. [9] The blimp hangars have been used for location shooting for numerous movies and TV programs, including JAG and The X-Files. [2] [10] Tustin Hangar No. 1 fire, 11:48 am 7 November 2023
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