And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Hanger One, Moffett Field
ReplyDeleteNot many of those wooden blimp hangars left.
ReplyDeleteI was going to ask: Those huge old hangars were timber frame construction, weren't they?
DeleteEngineering marvels.
And... now I see on Hangar One's Wiki page it was a steel frame.
DeleteStill, an engineering marvel.
This one was steel; Hangars Two and Three at Moffett were wooden.
DeleteStill the big one at Lakehurst, NJ. the one with it's own weather inside.
ReplyDeleteThe abandoned US Marine Corps blimp hanger in Tustin, CA, burned to the ground just a few weeks ago.
ReplyDeleteAn image of that magnitude, had to have been shot on a 4 x 5 speed Graphic or an 8 x 10 rail
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