Talk:Hangar

Cleanup
This article is clearly lacking in quality and content. There are plenty of inspecific statements. The part about airship hangars needs significant work. (This may work better as a separate article.) Willy Logan 06:42, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

The First Uses of the Hangar.
I watched a TV special on the History channel about Santos-Dumont that claiming that he was the inventor of the Hangar. In which By 1898 he used to store his small dirigibles already inflated. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Classic1010 (talk • contribs) 09:36, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

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History of "hangars" as a structure?
What is the history of the term "hangar"? Were there "hangars" before there were aircraft to put into them, or did the first users of airships invent a structure to put them in, and coin a word, "hangar", to go with them? It seems unlikely to me somehow that someone would just dig back into history and come up with this word derived from archaic language just to describe a structure used to house airships. It seems much more likely that a "hangar" was a type of large, open structure for covering large objects or storing goods in, and this pre-existing word was co-opted for use with airships. I ask because I was reading Kipling's "An Error in the Fourth Dimension" (from "A Day's Work"), and he refers to a place called "Holt's Hangars", which seems to be related to a railway in the context. This was 1895, so it may have referred to an airship hangar, but I don't think so. I think this was a term that was already in use and understood, which took on a new meaning when they used the term to denote an aircraft shelter. Note, I am NOT asking this for my personal curiosity, nor attempting to use Wikipedia as a "forum"; I bring this up because I think the article would be improved by covering this subject. 70.109.132.119 (talk) 23:31, 13 March 2018 (UTC)


 * I agree that the article would be improved by including more history of the term. If it has a French etymology, who decided that the term should be applied to a structure that houses aircraft, and when? 174.130.201.115 (talk) 14:41, 13 October 2021 (UTC)