Hangar One being cleaned by climbers

...built in 1932...an amazing network of steel girders sheathed with galvanized steel...in the middle of a Navy project to strip toxic siding off Hangar One...the floor covers eight acres & can accommodate 10 football fields. Hangar One," is 1,133 ft long & 308 ft wide. Its walls curve upward and inward, to form an elongated dome 198 feet high. One of the most recognizable landmarks in the San Francisco Bay Area, Hangar #1 and the original base are significant in the history of Naval Aviation, defense and in the development of the Santa Clara Valley. Google's Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt ---- has proposed paying the full $33 million cost of revamping the iconic hangar...and they want to use up to two-thirds of the floor space of the hangar to house their fleet of eight private jets...
the proposal was received positively by NASA Ames, which owns Hangar One and Moffett Field, on which it sits...

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• MOV01303