Two hangars erected by use of traveling jumbos; steel jumbo 200 ft wide, 86 ft long and 175 ft high used in hangar construction at Massachusetts Station; timberframe jumbo 222 1/2 ft wide, 136 ft long and 174 ft high used in Texas Station, where labor shortage and hurricanes had to be met; assemblies mounted on railroad car tracks. (See also - n 1 Jan 1944 p 56-8, 136, 138, 140)
Traveling scaffolds erect huge timber blimp hangars
Construction Methods
Construction Methods and Equipment ; 26 , n 2
1944
Article (Journal)
English
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