History
Carl Richard Nyberg used a hangar to store his Flugan in the early 20th century.
In 1909, Louis Bleriot crash-landed on a northern French farm in Les Baraques (between Sangatte and Calais) and rolled his monoplane into the farmer's cattle pen. At the time, Bleriot was in a race to be the first man to cross the English Channel in a heavier-than-air aircraft, so he set up headquarters in the unused shed.
The Wright brothers stored and repaired their aircraft in a wooden hangar constructed in 1902 at Kill Devil Hills in North Carolina for their glider. After completing design and construction of the Wright Flyer in Ohio, the brothers returned to Kill Devil Hill only to find their hangar damaged. They repaired the structure and constructed a new workshop while they waited for the Flyer to be shipped.
One of the largest hangars built was for the former Soviet Air Force. Another large hangar is the Goodyear Airdock measuring 1,175x325x211 feet, Hangar One (Mountain View, California) measuring 1,133x308x198 feet, and the Filton Aerodrome in Bristol, England, measuring 1,155x115x263 feet.
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