Axonometric Drawings, Cross-Sections and Elevations of Aircraft Hangars at Montrose Airfield
SC 367630
Description Axonometric Drawings, Cross-Sections and Elevations of Aircraft Hangars at Montrose Airfield
Catalogue Number SC 367630
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of DC 10543
Scope and Content Part of drawing showing side-elevation of 1917 end-door hangar at Montrose Airfield, Angus The three 1917 hangars at Montrose Airfield were standard prefabricated structures of a type known to flyers as 'black hangars'. The middle hangar was destroyed in 1940 by enemy action. The massive wooden doors slide back into the projecting door-housings on either side of the entrance. The roof is covered in bituminous felt and supported by trusses with polygonal profiles. The planes are typical World War One Allied fighter-aircraft. Montrose Airfield replaced Dysart Airfield as the base of Nos 1and 2 Flights of the Royal Flying Corps in 1913. It saw action in World War I as the station of an anti-Zeppelin flight, and in World War II when enemy action destroyed one of the hangars. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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