Hangars
of the future
- Clear entry hangars 2km long by 100m wide?
 One of the most important
requirements for a large aircraft hangar is that it should have
the widest possible door opening so as to be able to accommodate
the biggest aircraft or a mixture of many types, large or small,
whose comings and goings will not be restricted by widths of
door openings, or by having to manoeuvre past other aircraft.
After many years research we have
now designed a hangar whose clear doorway opening can be the
entire width of the hangar, whatever it's width. For instance,
an entrance could be 100 metres or 500 metres or more without
intermediate support
columns. This is achieved with a special steel structure and
frontal lattice beam. This design places the highest
part of the hangar just where it needs to be - at the front - to
accommodate the tail section inside the hangar, without the need
for a special tailgate door.
The electrically controlled
individually operated doors roll on bottom rails. At the top,
vertical rollers operate within precision made guide channels,
so that any single door or number of doors can be moved to any
part of the ground track and if necessary onto outriggers. The design allows large areas of
workshop and office space at the rear inside the hangar, where
the wings do not intrude. Foundations are reduced to a minimum.
At
the same time commercial aircraft need bigger, wider spans
(500m without intermediate columns). The new millennium will see
more and more private owners needing hangars for small single
aircraft or multiple lock-ups for clubs and hangarage companies.
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