Just a guess really but are those steel ‘spars’ a dumbbell shape…..does that make it a Hawker design?

I’m not sure you can really blame Hungarians for being anti-Soviet! :diablo:

Just an idea but your friend could list it on an internet auction site and see what people were prepared to pay…

…just be sure that he places the ‘winning’ bid before the end. 😉

It will cost him something in fees but his insurer could hardly dispute its worth if it effectively ‘sold’ for that price.

Interesting (no really :o) report about the 200 (!) remaining Type-C hangars on MOD property (and their locations).

http://www.defence-estates.mod.uk/publications/dmg/dmg_24.pdf

If the structure in the photo is such a door this is what you would have to cut doors / windows through!

There are six sliding and overlapping steel doors at each end of a typical Type-C Hangar. The doors run on cast iron wheels in tracks set into a reinforced concrete footing

Each door measures approximately 10.7m high by 8 metres wide and weighs in the order of 12.5 Tonnes. They comprise a series of 10” x 3” channels and 10” x 4 1/2” RSJ’s (grammar! :rolleyes:), which are externally sheeted in steel plate of varying thickness as follows: 1/4” plate up to 6m high and 1/8″ plate above. Originally, windows were fitted above 8.4m height, but these have frequently been replaced with steel plates. Internally the doors are sheeted in 1/2 ” steel plate but only up to 6m height. Doors have sometimes been filled with gravel as blast protection.

In the original design it is apparent that the steel sheeting on both the front and the rear faces on the door frames, are an integral part of the door structure. The steel plates provide strength and stability to the door frame members, and in the case of the lower diagonal bracing members, act as the gusset connection plates.

I’ve got to admit the door bothers me too…it certainly seems to be ’recessed’ below the level of the steel wall…or do my eyes just want to see it that way? Maybe it is a real door.

Look also at the vertical window frames. See how the shadow is broader when it falls on the (painted over) ‘pane’ than when it falls on the steel wall. If the frame stands proud by the same amount on either side this would seem to indicate that the windows also are recessed below the level of the steel wall.

However the second-story ‘windows’ really do look painted on…..and for what other purpose than camouflage…..and why would a ‘false’ extra storey make a building less of a target if the ground floor windows are real? Ergo, if the top windows are false, so are the bottom ones. (Always wanted to say ‘ergo’ in an argument! :D)

It’s a good one this!

Only the window on the left of the picture seems to be glazed…none of the others are (or possibly they have been painted over)…

…but look at the top of the photo there are second-story ‘windows’ that really do look just painted on.

Could the door and ground-floor windows just be false…..made of wood (and in one case glazed) but just fixed on the surface of the original hangar door as elaborate camouflage?

You’re right about it being heavily constructed!

Is it possible that it is an ‘armoured’ hangar door…..and that the door and windows are a very effectively done camouflage?

If so they are very convincing, especially the open window, but I cannot imagine anybody actually cutting doors and windows through bolted steel plate (if that is what it is).