Dear Ron A variant on the side ways loading hangar, such as one finds at Benalla & Beaufort GC at Bacchus Marsh, is detailed in Sailplane & Gliding April-May 2005 at page 45.
The Benalla/Beaufort approach works with relatively simple trolly designs to carry the glider main wheel and assumes that the hangar sliding doors at the bottom are not guided by continuous guides rather by intermittent guides so that the angle iron track for the glider main wheel can be continuous, running slightly underneath the bottom of the doors. If you concrete continuous door tracks into the ground to fully guide the hangar door bottom egdes and have a concrete hangar floor, such as we have at VMFG with a sideways loading hangar we are finishing off, then you need a more sophisticated trolley because the angle iron carrying the glider mainwheel is forced to be discontinuous at the door tracks. So we have 4 Vee groved wheels well spaced out over more than a metre running on the angle iron. Trolley to be tested soon - Should work well but yet to be 100% proven in the real world. The tail end of the glider simply runs in on the tail dolly, no additional track necessary. The hangar width only needs to be fuselage length plus tail and nose clearances. Cheers Roger Druce [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ron Sanders Sent: Tuesday, 4 April 2006 10:10 AM To: aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net Subject: [Aus-soaring] Benalla Hangars I am looking for information on the "sideways hangars" set up at Benalla if some one who has their glider so accommodated therein esp if an open class glider, would be kind enough to write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list Aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list Aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
