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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 flying 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 its span. 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.
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