airplane hangars

http://monolithicdome.com/gallery/co...s03/index.html
Monolithic Dome Airplane Hangars

Fantastic concept, however as a homebuilder I think that my little pile of
unfinished aluminium and cloth is probably going to be a tad out of place in
this. (I will have to stick to dismantling it and storing it in my garage
at home.)



"geo" wrote in message
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http://monolithicdome.com/gallery/co...s03/index.html
Monolithic Dome Airplane Hangars

Why build at all? Just encase your kit or raw materials inside a solid mound
of concrete for eternity and *say* there's an airplane within.
Who could prove you wrong?

Eric

In article , geo
wrote:

http://monolithicdome.com/gallery/co...s03/index.html
Monolithic Dome Airplane Hangars

Pffft!
We built our hangar from $20 plans.
No door, total cost was a little less than $3000.
This includes the crushed limestone apron and hangar floor.

"EDR" wrote in message
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In article , geo
wrote:

http://monolithicdome.com/gallery/co...s03/index.html
Monolithic Dome Airplane Hangars

Pffft!
We built our hangar from $20 plans.
No door, total cost was a little less than $3000.
This includes the crushed limestone apron and hangar floor.

You can spend less than that on a basic version just using rebar, concrete &
the airform and it would be much stronger. Or you can go whole hog with the
insulated version with electronic sliding door, etc. It's a very flexible
system.

geo wrote:
You can spend less than that on a basic version just using rebar, concrete &
the airform and it would be much stronger. Or you can go whole hog with the
insulated version with electronic sliding door, etc. It's a very flexible
system.

Foam concrete (or concrete foam)?
Come to think of it, one could use the construction methods used by
college Civil Engineering departments to fabricate concrete canoes and
entrained air to create a lightweight structure.
The airform would provide the support for the couple layers, then spray
on the successive layers.
That would be an interesting college challenge problem.
Materials could be donated, the military would provide research grants.
Forget the college challenge, I'll just apply for the grant!

A problem I can see is given that hangar plots at airports are usually
rectangular-shaped, you usually try to maximixe use of the land and
squeeze in as many hangars in as you can, with walls adjoining one
another. Round hangars will waste a lot of ground surface area around
them.

I'd rather see a standard rectangular-shaped hangar, but perhaps built
with this stuff for the exterior walls and roof:

http://www.agriboard.com/brochure.html
http://www.agriboard.com/pdfs/tornado.pdf
http://www.agriboard.com/fires.html

Well, you could combine the dome hangar with this idea:
http://www.carouselhangars.com/

Bill Daniels

"Neal" wrote in message
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A problem I can see is given that hangar plots at airports are usually
rectangular-shaped, you usually try to maximixe use of the land and
squeeze in as many hangars in as you can, with walls adjoining one
another. Round hangars will waste a lot of ground surface area around
them.

I'd rather see a standard rectangular-shaped hangar, but perhaps built
with this stuff for the exterior walls and roof:

http://www.agriboard.com/brochure.html
http://www.agriboard.com/pdfs/tornado.pdf
http://www.agriboard.com/fires.html

Argh! Beat me to it!

"Bill Daniels" wrote in message
k.net...
Well, you could combine the dome hangar with this idea:
http://www.carouselhangars.com/

Bill Daniels

"Neal" wrote in message
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A problem I can see is given that hangar plots at airports are usually
rectangular-shaped, you usually try to maximixe use of the land and
squeeze in as many hangars in as you can, with walls adjoining one
another. Round hangars will waste a lot of ground surface area around
them.

I'd rather see a standard rectangular-shaped hangar, but perhaps built
with this stuff for the exterior walls and roof:

http://www.agriboard.com/brochure.html
http://www.agriboard.com/pdfs/tornado.pdf
http://www.agriboard.com/fires.html

But round hangars can be configured to be much more efficient than square
hangars. Just add one of these.

http://www.carouselhangars.com/

Juan

"Neal" wrote in message
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A problem I can see is given that hangar plots at airports are usually
rectangular-shaped, you usually try to maximixe use of the land and
squeeze in as many hangars in as you can, with walls adjoining one
another. Round hangars will waste a lot of ground surface area around
them.

I'd rather see a standard rectangular-shaped hangar, but perhaps built
with this stuff for the exterior walls and roof:

http://www.agriboard.com/brochure.html
http://www.agriboard.com/pdfs/tornado.pdf
http://www.agriboard.com/fires.html