hangar

a shed for airplanes: The plane taxied to the hangar.
Not to be confused with:hanger – a frame for hanging clothes: Here is a hanger for your coat.

han·gar

H0048300 (hăng′ər, hăng′gər)n. A shelter especially for housing or repairing aircraft.

[French, from Old French hangard, of Germanic origin; see tkei- in Indo-European roots.]

hangar

(ˈhæŋə) n (Aeronautics) a large workshop or building for storing and maintaining aircraft[C19: from French: shed, perhaps from Medieval Latin angārium shed used as a smithy, of obscure origin]

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(ˈhæŋ ər)

n. 1. a shed or shelter. 2. any relatively wide structure used for housing airplanes or airships. [1850–55; < French: shed, hangar, Middle French, probably < Frankish *haimgard fence around a group of buildings =haim small village (see hamlet) + gard yard²]

hangar

- Simply meant "shed" for carriages when it came into English.See also related terms for shed.

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Noun

hangar - a large structure at an airport where aircraft can be stored and maintainedairdock, repair shedaerodrome, airdrome, airport, drome - an airfield equipped with control tower and hangars as well as accommodations for passengers and cargostructure, construction - a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts; "the structure consisted of a series of arches"; "she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons"

Translations

飞机修理库飞机棚

hangar

(ˈhӕŋə) noun a shed for aeroplanes. 飞机棚，飞机修理库

hangar

a large workshop or building for storing and maintaining aircraft

Hangar

an installation for the storage, maintenance, and repair of airplanes and helicopters. In prerevolutionary Russia wooden hangars of simple design about 25 m wide were built. One of the first steel hangars (20.8 m wide) was built in Königsberg in 1913. In the USSR standard metal hangars 36–45 m wide were built at permanent airports in the late 1920’s and early 1930’s.

Modern hangars vary a great deal in planning and design. The type of hangar used depends on the type and number of aircraft to be serviced and on the nature of the maintenance equipment. The most common hangars have a rectangular profile and are of arch or frame construction; they often are more than 100 m wide. Depending on their function, the following types of hangars are distinguished: storage hangars, in which the main building is used for the parking, maintenance, and preventive inspection of aircraft and for the storage of detachable units and spare parts; and shop hangars, for the repair of airplanes, helicopters, and aircraft engines. Shop hangars include several production and everyday administrative premises, which are usually housed in annexes to the main building. Hangars are also subdivided according to the type of construction: stationary (permanent structure), which are built at permanent and military base airports and helicopter stations, with supporting structural elements of metal or reinforced concrete; temporary, designed for short-term service, usually of wood; and collapsible, with structural elements of steel or light alloys designed for field airports. An efficient design for the latter type of hangar is the pneumatic framework design, which consists of a supporting framework (for instance, made up of tubular metal arches) and an outer covering of canvas or synthetic coating.

Hangars have hoisting and transportation devices (such as carts and mobile cranes), means of communications and signaling, automatic fire extinguishers, and so on. Stationary hangars have movable and nonmovable platforms and gangways to make the maintenance and repair of the aircraft more convenient: electric power, compressed air, and oxygen is conveyed to them. The gates of the hangar are usually made of separate panels that automatically open horizontally or vertically. Accordion-type gates are also used. The platform in front of the hangar is linked up with the runway of the airport. The design and space arrangement of modern hangars often reaches a high architectural and artistic expressiveness, such as the hangars built by P. L. Nervi in Italy in the 1930’s, 1940’s, and 1950’s.

F. IA. ZAITSEV and D. A. MOGILEVSKII

hangar

[′haŋ·ər] (civil engineering) A building at an airport specially designed in height and width to enable aircraft to be stored or maintained in it.

hangar

A shed or shelter, particularly a structure for the shelter, service, and repair of aircraft.

hangar

Any suitable shelter or building for housing aircraft. Hangars also may be used for the service and maintenance of aircraft.

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noun a large structure at an airport where aircraft can be stored and maintained

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