[CPEO-IRF] Hangar One debate, Moffett Field (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Pinning Hopes on a Closed Hangar
Preservationists want to save a Silicon Valley landmark that looms large 
in aviation history. But it sits on a toxic site.

By John M. Glionna
Los Angeles Times
July 5, 2006

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Bernie McDonough stands in the massive shadow of 
the structure known as Hangar One, gazing up at the Silicon Valley's 
signature landmark turned endangered historical icon from the infancy of 
the Space Age.

Spanning seven football fields, wide enough to fit three Titanics side 
by side, the humpbacked structure features two 500-ton "orange peel" 
doors that roll aside on reinforced railroad tracks. Before engineers 
intervened, it even had its own weather: Fog often formed in the upper 
reaches, raining a light mist on the floor 17 stories below.

Built in 1933, the cavernous 361,000-square-foot hangar once housed the 
Macon, a lumbering dirigible that roamed the California coast on U.S. 
military missions before crashing into the Pacific Ocean in 1935.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-hangar5jul05,0,2240907.story?coll=la-headlines-california


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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org

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