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"Bill Daniels" < wrote
> Domes are simply cool.
> I remember a proposal for a dome/carosel hangar that stored 8 aircraft.
> The aircraft were on a snowflake-like carosel made of 6" steel "C" channel
> that also guided the aircraft wheels as they were rolled in tail first.
> It rolled on the concrete floor with dozens of ball bearing urethane tired
> wheels and rotated about the center of the hangar.
>
> An owner would punch in his combination into the lock and the door would
> electrically open as the carosel rotated his aircraft into position to
> roll out of the hangar. It would have worked something like an airplane
> vending machine.
>
> The claim was made that this was significantly cheaper than T-hangers with
> the same ease of access to the airplanes. Cheaper because there was only
> one small door for 8 airplanes.
I can see that there could be a real economy of scale, in an arrangement
like that.
Since a dome large enough to hold 8 airplanes would be rather tall, it would
seem like a second story would not be a large problem, either. It could
become a great space for an EAA chapter to hold meetings, and have offices,
and of course, rest rooms, since a rotating floor would not allow for that,
unless they were built at the very center. A building of some type at the
center would be a definite possibility, with the grid rotating around the
central structure.
I wonder how much such an arrangement would cost? Just a cost for the shell
and a concrete floor would be interesting to know.
--
Jim in NC
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Re: Hangar Design
