[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Hangar roof collapses at former Marine Corps Air Station Tustin (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

$35-million airship damaged after part of hangar's roof collapses
Worldwide Aeros officials say helium released from the airship forced  
an evacuation of the building, but the damage to the military  
prototype is 'repairable.'

By Adolfo Flores
Los Angeles Times
October 7, 2013


A 266-foot experimental airship that is being constructed inside an  
enormous World War II-era blimp hangar in Tustin was damaged Monday  
when a portion of the structure's roof collapsed.

Falling wood from the roof struck the $35-million airship, a  
prototype being built under a government contract, and caused a blast  
of helium to be released, forcing the evacuation of the area.  
Officials with Worldwide Aeros Corp. said the damage to the airship  
is "repairable" but declined to be specific.

The blimp-like aircraft is being built for the military to carry  
cargo to remote areas around the world, part of a resurgence in the  
production of blimps, zeppelins and spy balloons for everything from  
espionage to hauling supplies to isolated areas.

In Tustin, the site of the former Marine Corps Air Station Tustin,  
the project has brought new life to a hangar that was a home for  
blimps during World War II.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-1008-airship-20131008,0,7221265.story

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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