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Old 13 July 2004, 07:03 AM   #1 (permalink)
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On my latest 1/16th diorama the hangar doors are quite large.Normally most doors of the golden era in Canada seem to be of the type whereby the doors slide into a structure at the hangars sides.(ex:Camp Borden Ont.)I want to avoid building these structures as the hangar is altready 40 inches wide.On the painting I have of the Toronto Flying Club Hangars, that I am basing my model on ,one hangar has the sliding door structure arrangement while the other is shown as open with no structures.Does anyone know of any alternate designs that were used during this era? I guess another alternative would be to build these structures but make been removable so I can eventually get the diorama out of Santas Workshop. Thanks.Cheers! John
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Hangars that had sliding doors were either four doors, two on each side would have two overhead steel tracks and matching steel tracks below set in the ground. The tracks extended beyond the hangar opening on both sides the width of the doors. The rear track had the outer pair of doors and the forward track,the center doors. If the doors were 16 feet wide would cover a sixty foot door opening. They opened from the center, two doors each side.
I have seen hangars with eight and ten doors, big hangars!
A hangar my Father had at Mills Field (now San Francisco International) had a roll-up door, like a roll top desk, electrically powered.
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Thanks Dan-San for the info.Cheers! John.
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