Planned by the engineer Eugene Freyssinet, the 300 metre-long buildings were an important innovation according to the construction and aesthetic of the design. Nevertheless, at the end of the First World War an airship station for rigid airships was built in Cuers-Pierrefeu by adding the parts of smaller hangars to two big ones.Īt Paris-Orly Airport two concrete hangars were built between 19.
In France few big hangars had been built, because there was only one attempt to build a rigid airship. This was the intended destination of the R101. In 1924, the Imperial Airship Communications scheme planned to extend mail and passenger service to British India, so an 859-foot hangar was constructed at Karachi (now in Pakistan) in 1929. The No.1 Cardington hangar is original, but extended the No.2 hangar was relocated to Cardington from Pulham in 1928. Today, only the two hangars of the former Royal Airship Works in Cardington, Bedfordshire, where the R101 was built, remain. The reconstructed Airship Hangar at Farnborough The American Melvin Vaniman constructed big tent hangars in France particularly for the French army. They were quite common in the US at fairgrounds or exhibitions. 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.įor 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.Īlready before the First World War there were transportable tent constructions as hangars for smaller airships. The construction of the first operational rigid airship LZ1 by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin started in 1899 in a floating hangar on Lake Constance at Manzell today part of Friedrichshafen. Hangar “Y” is one of the few remaining airship hangars in Europe. The first real airship hangar was built as Hangar “Y” at Chalais-Meudon near Paris in 1879 where the engineers Charles Renard and Arthur Constantin Krebs constructed their first airship “ La France”. An abrupt deviation from its former military and transport history.Hangar Y, Chalais-Meudon near Paris, France 2002 Nowadays the Airhangar is converted into a recreation center and holiday resort called Tropical Island. Tropical Islands - by a Malaysian company Soldiers room with Glutos cooker and sink - very basic accommodation with shared bathooms Though most buildings were stripped naked when the soviets left, some it still there.
Military Airfield Brand Briesen with old flats - Soviet / DDR style Left empty after 1992 in deplorable state Military Airfield Brand Briesen with old soviet buildings - stripped naked The place is still littered with bunkers and largely deteriorated buildings. When the russians left in 1992, the company CargoLifter bought the huge place and built the Airship Hangar. After WWII the place was converted to a huge military base by the Russians with several russian bomber squads from 1954. The former military airfield Brand - Briesen was created round 1938 as a pilot training center. The old runway near the Airship hangar - East-Germany The are is still littered with bunkers and hangars. The former DDR military runway is converted into a huge parking lot. The hangar space was designed for a huge airship able to carry a 160 ton payload. The hangar has impressive dimensions - it's 360 meter (1.181 feet) long, 220 meter (720 feet) wide and 106 meter (348 feet) in height. Unfortunately the company went bankrupt in 2002, leaving the € 78 million hangar empty and many shareholders empty handed. The airship hangar is built by CargoLifter AG in 1996 - a company aiming at lifting large constructions and delivering them at the right location. Its a towering huge airship hangar - once near, the humongous size is mind boggling.Īirship hangar near Krausnick - East-Germany
It's one of the largest buildings on Earth by volume. Located near a runway in the former DDR - East Germany, a huge airship hangar rises above the trees. Airship hangar near Krausnick - East Germany 52° 2' 3.912" N, 13° 45' 8.64" E
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