Hangar
A Hangar is a metal, wooden or concrete structure designed to hold one or many aircraft in protective storage. Hangars may be used to protect aircraft from weather, enemy fire or whlie not being used or undergoing repairs. Hangars may also hold dirigibles during refueling and boarding. Hangar means cattle pen in a northern French dialect.
History of hangars
First hangar
The first recorded use of the word hangar was used by Louis Bleriot, the first man to fly a heavier than air craft across the English Channel. In 1909 he crash landed on a northern French farm in Les Baraques (between Sangatte and Calais). He rolled the monoplane into the farmer's cattle pen. Louis Bleriot, at the time, was in a race to be the first man to cross the English Channel so he set up headquarters in the unused shed. The word Hangar comes from a northern French dialect meaning "cattle pen." After returning home Louis Bleriot called , the maker of the cattle pen, and ordered three "Hangars" for his personal use. continues to make hangars and hangar parts to this day.
