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Hangar Door Case
Studies
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Doors and Extensions for existing
Hangars
You don't even have to spend a fortune. Provided you already have a reasonable
Hangar, we can
upgrade it for you.
Your company has grown, you need to
spread your wings and accommodate larger aircraft. We can help you, at a
fraction of the cost of a new hangar.
Many of our customers have come to us in
this predicament. They cannot afford the time factor involved, nor the
capital expenditure that a new hangar would entail.
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A start is made on the renovation of
existing T2 Hangar. |
We have the answer, depending on your end
requirement. In the case shown in the photographs, the customer wanted
to increase the whole package on offer to his customers, including
aircraft size, VIP lounge and reception, catering, conference
facilities, and even crew rest accommodation.
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The completed Hangar, for Inflite London Stansted Airport. |
The solution our Designers arrived at was
really quite simple: they increased the size of the existing hangar at
one end by building a steel frame, including door track, over the top,
allowing the customer to continue working with the minimum
disruption.
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A new frame, including door track, is in position, awaiting cladding.
When completed, the existing Hangar can be connected in the dry to the
refurbished area. |
Doors for 76 metre span
maintenance Hangar, for UPS Courier Services, Shannon Airport, Co Clare,
Eire
This 5700m² aircraft maintenance Hangar built for Aer Rianta to keep the
world renowned UPS Courier Services airborne and carrying cargo to the four
corners of the globe, proved to be quite a challenge to our erection team.
In this instance the customer specified
the use of lifting fabric doors, which were supplied by Megadoor, with
whom we have an association. They are 76m wide and 20m high and required
our team of designers, draughtsmen, fabricators and erectors to work
very closely with the fabric door supplier.
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Note
that safety rails all around the roof edge. |
The Future - Clear
span Hangars 2km long by 100m wide?
One of the most important requirements
for a large aircraft hangar is that it should have the widest possible
door opening so as to be able to accommodate the biggest aircraft flying
or a mixture of many types, large or small, whose comings and goings
will not be restricted by widths of door openings, or by having to
manoeuvre past other aircraft.
After many years of research we have now
designed a hangar whose clear doorway opening can be the entire width of
the hangar, whatever its span. For instance, an entrance could be 100
metres or 500 metres, or more without intermediate support columns. This
is achieved with a special steel structure and frontal lattice beam.
The design places the highest part of the
hangar just where it needs to be - at the front - to accommodate the
tail section inside the hangar, without the need for a special tailgate
door.
The electrically controlled individually
operated doors roll on bottom rails. At the top, vertical rollers
operate within precision made guide channels, so that any single door or
number of doors can be moved to any part of the ground track and if
necessary onto outriggers.
The design allows large areas of workshop
and office space at the rear inside the hangar, where the wings do not
intrude. Foundations are reduced to a minimum.

For Instant Designs of Complete Hangars
including Hangar Doors, visit www.aircraft-hangars.com.
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Overseas
Agents with good contacts in Construction needed in some
territories. |
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