On 5/19/17 5:50 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 19 May 2017 10:49:54 -0500, -MIKE-
wrote:

On 5/18/17 11:34 PM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
On Wednesday, May 17, 2017 at 7:57:52 PM UTC-4,
wrote:
On Wed, 17 May 2017 15:39:35 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
wrote:

On Wednesday, May 17, 2017 at 11:37:53 AM UTC-4, Scott Lurndal
wrote:
John McCoy writes:
Steve wrote in
:

Well yes I am, but seriously, this came over my LinkedIn
feed today, and is pretty cool. Newly-developed, major
commercial in Minneapolis. 7 stories, 238,000 Sq. Ft.
Thought I'd share.

"The foundation, core, and ground floor are concrete, but
the rest of the seven-story structure is timber, making it
the largest timber building in North America."

Good marketting PR speak, but factually untrue. The largest
timber building in NA would be one of the blimp hangers the
Navy built in WW2, of which half a dozen still exist. They
are about 10 times as large as this new building.

The hanger for the USS Macon (1933 Moffett Field) has a steel
structure, which is currently quite obvious when one drives by,
since the outer skin has been removed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangar..._California%29



The Goodyear Airdock (1929) is also steel structure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodyear_Airdock


My family and I had the pleasure of taking off from and landing
in the field next to the Goodyear Airlock. Guess what we were
flying in?

The Goodyear Blimp!

It was one of the coolest things I've ever done.

We lived in the Akron area for a year. Goodyear Blimps flew
around the area all the time.

Didja every get a free ride? :-)

One cool part is to feel them power up to land. Obviously, they have
to force them to go down.

(As a kid I used to see them over NYC all the time. Never imagined
that I'd ever get to go up in one)


Your worlds are colliding, now, DerbyDad. The Soap Box Derby in Akron
is held just across the field from the Goodyear Blimp hangar. You can
go on google maps and see how close they are.

The Goodyear blimp hangar isn't in Akron. It's in Mogadore, OH, about
20-30 miles East of Akron. It's at the Wingfoot country club. ;-)
The old blimp hangar is now owned by Lockheed Martin (where I worked
when I was in Akron). they were doing some work on RADAR blimps for
the DD and Homeland there but I can't remember if they were actually
using the old blimp hangar.

The hangar was a popular field trip destination for school kids in the
Akron area. I still remember visiting it when I was very young. At the
time, it was the largest self-supported structure in the world. It was
so big and high inside that it would actually rain inside the hangar.
The rain was really condensation on the roof that would drip down, but
that's kinda what rain is.

The old one is the the f'n one I'm talking about.
Geez. You just love to argue about meaningless bull****.


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