These are some remarkable pics. Hangar One is identical to the TCOM hangar at the former Weeksville Naval Air Station outside of Elizabeth City, NC. The TCOM hangar is the current home of the M1400 airship. The third such hangar is located at the Lockheed-Martin facility in Akron, OH. To the best of my knowledge, these are the only three such hangars of this vintage ever constructed.
Judging from these pics, TCOM will have its hands full if it ever decides to re-skin the hangar…
Hangar One: Stripping down of 79-year-old structure nearly complete – – Mercury News Media Center.
It is an amazing structure, and even more so now that it has been skinned. Drove by it a week ago. It is massive and complex and heroic. Check it out next time you are in Silicon Valley.
Here is the sad truth about another political football nobody wants to grab.
http://my.opera.com/OccupyHanagrOne/about/
I started this idea after AJ posted a link to Spontaneous Interventions.
They declined.
Hangar 1 is truly an architectural artifact from the golden age of airships.
Too bad to few have the vision for what they can still do.
MAV 6 being one of the exceptions. The M1400 should be stationed @ Moffett with a new mission > Public Safety Demonstrator to help the FAA keep an airborne eye in the sky of Bay Areas controlled air space. What better way to coordinate the planned increase in domestic UAV traffic.
NASA could accept yet another unfunded techno gift from DoD just like those satellites they can’t afford to launch. But here is the hack > Get Airsip Ventures to operate the M1400 for the FAA & NASA. Get Google to lease space for their jet fleet & help pay for the improvements needed to make H1 occupy-able. How about some contributions from ILC Dover & TCOM for some high tech fabric to re skin 75% of the hangar. That last 25% gets covered with various (contributed) solar cells to make the whole structure electrically self sufficient.