North Carolina Aircraft Owners

How sturdy is the hangar? Stories from this newsgroup indicate that there's
a certain level of risk with the structure collapsing on top of the plane.
Are there any building codes that hangars can follow?

The manuevering speed on my Warrior is 111 kts which translates to about 128
mph. Theoretically, as long as there's no foreign object damage and the
winds are below that number, it should do fine in a secure tiedown. Someone
comment if they think I am wrong in my assumption (won't be the first time).
I'm in NY and we're anticipating on 50 mph winds though.

Good luck with your Maule!

Marco



"Maule Driver" wrote in message

Interesting question. Nothing here in Durham. The Maule is in the
hangar.
I expect to lose power for a few days so that puts the Maule out of
commission since I have no other way of raising the electric door. We're
leaving town - it's thrilling but not fun to sit thru that stuff.


Talked to the airport manager. They are policing the tiedowns for loose
materials. I assume a few people have flown out but can't tell.

We expect up to 50 knot winds...

I was hear during Fran and "the other one". Fran ran dead center thru the
RDU triangle area. You never forget the roar of the train. It was real
bad
but I don't remember any a/c loses here at 8NC8 (was W65). The "other
one"
that ran thru here to the east caused extensive freshwater flooding that
did
more damage than the winds of Fran. I flew over a few days later to an
airport using the GPS (either ETC or MCZ). Couldn't spot it until I
realized the underwater rectangles were wings of tiedowned aircraft.
There
was a runway shaped oil slick on the water which appeared to be over 8
feet
deep. Everything east of I-95 seemed submerged.





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