Maybe you remember Prof. Barry Prentice, the Professor that had a plan to build Hydrogen Airships for cargo hauling in Canada's North. Well, unfortunately his business venture had a major set back, the Hanger they were keeping the Airships has been destroyed due to a Sand Storm (Full Story.) Estimated damages are between a half million to a million dollars.
Airship hangers have been notoriously finicky throughout history. The Aeroscraft was destroyed by the hanger collapsing just a few years ago, and in the past major Airship endeavors have ended in ruin because of fires and other major malfunctions in airship hangers all through the First Golden Age of Airships.
The conspiracy theorist in me has always found it a little odd that Airship Hangers seem to be so fraught with failure, when all they are functionally is a massive room. However the more logical explanation is that there is something fundamentally wrong with the way we construct airship hangers. In this case, I'm sure there is a solution to building much more reliable Hangers for airships then what we are doing now, Moffett Field has had no know problems from collapses I do believe, maybe it's a more structurally sound design?
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