Synopsis

Join us for a look at the history of hangars—imposing, monumental structures designed to shelter and safeguard aircraft. We'll examine the very first hangar, constructed on a German lake, alongside Boeing’s Delta 4 rocket hangar. Then we journey to Hangar Number One in Lakehurst, New Jersey, which once housed all US airships built during the nineteen twenties and thirties; and finally, the hangar for the Space Shuttle—a space as vast as four skyscrapers stacked one atop another. Returning to Ger