Word: hangar
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...others along the sides, about a quarter of the way up from the bottom. Through each keel frame runs a triangular catwalk, the upper one giving access to the safety release valves above the helium bags. The lower ones serve as corridors to the engine rooms, airplane hangar, crew quarters, galley, messrooms; leading forward to the mooring apparatus and aft to an emergency control car inside the lower...
...exhausted airmen were swept across the field to a hangar, radio announcers fought to get near them with microphones, begged them almost tearfully to "say something." Examples...
...learned of the great crowds that waited to lionize them at the airport. They must fly on! Valiantly Hoiriis pulled himself together and they did fly, but only as far as Bremen. Half-conscious Hoiriis put the plane down, fell asleep without a word and was carried to a hangar...
Returning home from a (light over Switzerland one day last week the Graf Zeppelin dipped low over Lake Constance. But instead of flying on to her hangar at Friedrichshafen near the north shore, the great silver sausage slowed to a standstill about 100 ft. above the water. Capt. Ernst Lehmann barked orders, rang signals. Six open tanks were dropped at cable-ends. Striking the surface they quickly filled with water, helped drag the great ship down. First the Graf poked her nose gingerly into the lake, then gently let her stern settle until she rested evenly upon her waterproofed gondolas...
...plane will be bought, but one or two club pilots within the next few weeks will be employed in trying out different makes. As soon as a definite decision has been arrived at, an order will be put in, and the new plane will be ensconced in the club hangar...