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Wingspan slightly bigger than hanger doorway?

This technique only works (easily) for taildraggers.
This used to be a fairly common technique at small airports when taildraggers were the norm, and a few old geezers have passed it down, but this method is not seen much anymore with the overwhelming preponderance of nose draggers.

Drum roll, please.
Roll the nose of the airplane up to one of the door jambs at about a 45 degree angle to the doorway-of course do this missing the opposite door jamb with the wing that is going into the interior of the hanger.
Once positioned one wing inside and the nose close to and pointed at one door jamb, then rotate the tail/tailwheel into the hangar pivoting around the center of the main gear slowly while watching "everything" for clearance. When the tail is drawn in past the opposite door jamb, start rolling deeper into the hangar a little with the tail as you continue the pivot until able to be rolling straight back.

Obviously the interior has to be WIDER than the door opening.
The length of the airplane needs to be less than the door opening.

Some dusters in the past put their planes away every night using the technique without batting an eye.

Before trying this with your "pride and joy", cut out a scale down 2 dimensional paper/cardboard airplane and draw a scale hangar doorway (with scale interior) to explore whether this will work in your situation, or not.

When you first try it for real, if it looks tight, procure extra sets of eyes to advise on progress in real time from additional location/angles.
If it IS tight-but doable-you might consider putting paint cues on the hangar floor and apron to help avoid the all too familiar "hangar rash" that causes pilots to cuss themselves out.

When/if someone benefits from this method of hangaring their aircraft-how about making a video and posting it online. I searched for one, and couldn't find one.

BTW. Once you have the airplane safely in the hangar using this method, it is NOT stuck. Merely reverse the process to remove your aircraft from the hangar! :lol:

Good luck!
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Re: Wingspan slightly bigger than hanger doorway?

Sounds like it should work good. We use the same procedure to get combines/swathers with 35' headers through 25' gates. Slowly and carefully is key.
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So, Skinner. How about a video of it ^^^^^^??
I know you'd be REAL busy during harvest, but you could edit it in the LONG evenings of winter...
Just a thought......
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Haha. Problem is littlecub, where I am now we tore all the fences down. No more narrow gates for us.
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Re: Wingspan slightly bigger than hanger doorway?

Hey, Hsivany, thanks!
I had searched for a video on this, but I omitted the key words "Iceland" & "volcano".
Oh, well, I'll know next time. :lol:

Skinner, thanks anyway. I still would have liked to see the "combine shuffle".....
Might have triggered some good farm memories from when I was a sprout.
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