Their motorised electric steel doors alone weighed 470 tons. R-100 occupied Hangar No 2, the R-101, Hangar No 1. It was a tight fit. The sheds offered only 25 feet clearance for each airship ...

Documents the grand opening of the massive hangar built to house the U.S. Navy's airship *Macon*. The film captures large ...

Pathfinder 1 bow quarter view, in Moffett Field Hangar 2 in mid-2022. Courtesy LTA Research. The airship also is safer than its 20th-century predecessors, such as the ill-fated Hindenburg ...