Headed South on Oregon 101

Iceni John · December 17, 2015, 04:03:46 AM

And if you're still on a blimp hanger binge if you reach Southern California, we have two huge ones at the former Tustin MCHAS in Orange County that are impressive. One can drive quite close by them.

John, suffering from wind chill in the high 60s / low 70s here now . . . Woe is me.

rusty · December 17, 2015, 04:17:52 AM

dave 5c Yes that is a very big area. But that thing is 1050 feet long somewhere around 275 feet tall and like 175 ft wide. I don't know how to do the math for that shape but if you use 1050 X 275 X 2 you get well over 11 acres. I am pretty sure that was the contract I saw in the musuem.
It is well worth seeing.

Wayne

luvrbus · December 17, 2015, 04:41:20 AM

The air museum at Tillamook the hanger covers 7 acres fwiw,almost the same sf that a E building Walmart super center has

rusty · December 17, 2015, 04:44:55 AM

That sounds about right than the roof could be 11 acres.

Wayne

luvrbus · December 17, 2015, 04:53:09 AM

Figure the Quonset it is 11 acres of roof,a Quonset is 1/2 a circle fwiw

Boomer · December 17, 2015, 05:46:56 AM

Back in the 80's Louisiana Pacific had a sawmill in that hanger. I was loading there one day and the guy told me it was 7 acres at the floor and how many thousands of bolts are in those trusses but can't remember that figure now.

azdieselman · December 17, 2015, 06:20:48 AM

7 Acres, wow.

If that was my shop, I'd still be working in the same 10 SF area.
Tripping over equipment and bumping into stuff.

Some habits die hard.

lvmci · December 17, 2015, 12:18:11 PM

Hi All, in the 70s, I worked at Sunnyvale Air Force Station, on Moffett Field Navy Station, south of San Fran, off the 101 Fwy, those blimp hanger were gigantic, in the summer you could almost see them breathe, lvmci...

easystreet · December 17, 2015, 06:06:42 PM

Updated my profile as per request. Happy to try to help if someone is in the area or needs a place to park for a few days.
The hanger at NAS Tillamook was erected by Peter Kewitt (sp?) Construction with much of the erection taking place during some particularly awful winter weather. Amazing what they accomplished with war effort determination and the equipment of the time. Mom actually got to go aloft in one of the blimps on a local coastal patrol.

Dave5Cs · December 18, 2015, 04:00:25 AM

Rusty I guess if you measure from ground up and over to ground I see what you are saying. Interesting.

Dave

luvrbus · December 18, 2015, 04:30:10 AM

7 acres is a large building I looked at the building for friend in Boise Id to make it over to distributing center for Waremart (Winco now) but it was to small so they built a 20 acre under 1 roof in Woodburn Or now they have four centers the same size across the west.
LOL I missed that investment who would have thought a grocery chain could be so profitable and grow so fast