The top chords (diameter 559 mm) are at 3.441 m centres and the bottom chords (559 mm) at 2.0 m centre. The arches of the cylindrical part have a structural height of 8 m and span over 225 m. The structure has been designed using steel grade S355. In addition, this solution is suitable to avoid excessive wind turbulence. The shape of the building is oriented closely on the clearance diagram for two airships. Both doors form a semi-circle in plan and a quarter-segment of a circle in elevation. The central part is of a cylindrical shape consisting of five steel arches at 35 m centres – each of the four bays being covered with a textile fabric – and at both ends of the building are the doors which consist of two fixed and six moving elements. The structural concept distinguishes two main parts of the building. Currently, the detailed design is taking place and most of the building structure should be ready in 1999. With a span of 210 m, a height of 107 m and a length of 363 m it will be the largest hall in Germany. The site is an airfield in Brand, about 50 km south of Berlin. In the middle of 1997 the CargoLifter AG commissioned the design for an airship hangar in Germany to house two new airships. This airship allows transporting a pay-load of 160t over a distance of up to 10’000 km with a speed of 80-120 km/h. Currently, a new generation of airships (helium filled, carbon fibre structure, length 260 m), the CargoLifter CL-160 is prepared. But the global market and ecological needs require the search for new forms of transportation. Also check these other abandoned military sites in Belgium, Germany and Poland.Six decades ago the golden age for the airships – succeeded by airplanes – seemed to have died forever. After the company went bankrupt a tropical theme park was opened in the hangar. However the airship was never built and the company went bankrupt in 2002.
It’s a technological marvel in itself, the freestanding steel-dome “barrel-bowl” construction is large enough to fit the Eiffel Tower on its side. The hangar is 360 meter long, 220 meter wide and 106 meter high. The hangar for production and operation of the CL160 and engineering team facilities was built in 1998.
This service was in general based on the development of a heavy lift airship, the CL160, a vessel designed to carry a 160-tons payload. Cargolifter offered logistical services through point-to point transport of heavy and outsized loads. Eventually in 1996 it was sold to Cargolifter, a German company founded in 1996.
In 1992 the Red Army left Germany, as a result the site was back in German control. The Russian radio call sign for the airfield was ZWEROBOJ or ЗВЕРОБОЙ. Also they built hardened aircraft shelter for the planes in the years 1970 until 1983. At the end of the main runway there is an aircraft parking area with shelters and ammunition bunkers. In 1958 they built another, 2 kilometer long runway. The Soviet forces extended the small airfield by a 2,5 kilometer long concrete main runway. In January 1951, work began on expanding the former Luftwaffe airbase for the Soviet armed forces. /rebates/2fp2fCargolifter-Brand2fCornelia-Dorries2f9783933743473&.com252fp252fCargolifter-Brand252fCornelia-Dorries252f978393374347326afsrc3d126SID3d&idbooksamillion&nameBOOKSAMILLION. In fact there were no active planes stationed at the site, but it was used as a training school for pilots. Also several barracks and a train station were built. Originally there was a grass runway with a length of one kilometer. The airfield was built by the Luftwaffe during the expansion of the army by Nazi Germany, between 19.