remains of dirigible hangar in Hitchcock, Texas

[john keyes]

this is one of those things I had always heard about and seen but never remembered to look it up on line, so i did

I'm sure many people in the houston/galveston/freeport etc area have seen these concrete structures from the road



here is the link  http://www.texas-flyer.com/chambers/landmark.htm

for some REALLY COOL pics taken back then look here

http://texashistory.unt.edu/search/?q=Hitchcock+Naval+Air+Station&t=dc.subject

[Questor]

This is astonishing to me! When I was a teen I found a WWI era blimp base in south Florida. It looked a lot like that. My understanding is that the base was used for blimps until the early 1920s, but it was used for other government activities until the 1970s. The towers were there. There were WWII vintage radial airplane engines on tall trolleys. The place was loaded with cool stuff. There were bunkers, there was a firing range. It was a great place to explore. We used to dig 50 caliber BMG bullets out of the sand at the range. The big zoo is there now.

Closer to home, in the 1960s, there was an abandoned dump where we could play in tanks, troop carriers, etc. That was cool too.

[OR-E-Gun Bill]

Here's an old photo of one of a pair from Tillamook, Oregon (on the coast)



One burned down several years ago. The other, still standing, houses an air museum now.

Link to the air museum website: http://www.tillamookair.com/
(There are many interesting facts concerning the hangers in the website, well worth the time to check it out)


Bill

[Questor]

Here's a web site that describes the one I used to go to

http://www.kilroywashere.org/004-Pages/MiamiArea/04-D-MiamiBlimp.html