On 04/04/2006, at 19:08, Roger Druce wrote:
The Benalla/Beaufort approach works with relatively simple trolly designs to carry the glider main wheel and assumes that the hangar sliding doors at the bottom are not guided by continuous guides rather by intermittent guides sothat the angle iron track for the glider main wheel can be continuous, running slightly underneath the bottom of the doors.
Actually nearly all our doors have standard hinges, no guide, no rails.The rails are only used (as indicated in previous replies) to bring out the trolly for the main wheel of the glider.
Using standard hinged doors, rather than sliding (full or intermittent) slashes HEAPS of the price. But to achieve that you must not have a very wide door, thus the reason for putting the glider in sideways.
The whole system is very clever, it means that you can build an 8 plane hangar for less than $4000 each (less if you want to do your own work). Plus our hangar has 2 25m planes, no problem ! The wings overlap nicely.
One thing - never leave the doors open :-) Wind will twist them to bits, so they always have to be shut when not there.
Scott
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