Don't know what happened, nobody hurt anyway.

Hold on... closer inspections shows it was a very large fabric tensioned struture (VLFTS) that collapsed, AGAIN. It partially went down last year, at a different location about a 1/2 mile away. They took it down and relocated it, both locations about 1/4 mile from KPIH tower. This thing is huge, maybe 250' span. There is an identical one across town, used for a riding arena. No problems with so far, the big difference is it has closed in ends, this one is open ended, and when the wind comes howling out of the Arbon valley who knows what aerodynamic forces are exerted. I know a lot of peple with clipboards and cameras (lawyers maybe) were examining it very closely....I could save them all time time:it's too damn big and too windy in that location, end of story.

This is going to one crane job I am passing on, lots of unknown forces in that torqued iron, they better just pull it down with front end loaders from a long distance away, once they get the grain out.

Marisco's ship yard had one of those and it blew out. It was hilarious! Nobody was injured.

Location: Barbers Point, Oahu. Circa 2004

I did a search for VL-TFS in the NTSB prelim crash reports, you sure that's the right tail number?

It was a highly classified drone. Now they have to do damage control and de-class the mission.

Hope they can keep the cameras farther away!

When will the fuckin idiots realize that the way the wind blows out here,,, Cheap circus tents are gonna get blown down. .. The worst part is some assinine insurance company probably wrote a policy on that shit.

CG...you see a lot of this type of structure being put up as cheap (?) for fast grain storage. Hugh piles of corn on the ground all over the country and these structures protect some of it. Lots of wind here too. It amazes me that more of these glorified "Tents" don't go down.

hicountry wrote:CG...you see a lot of this type of structure being put up as cheap (?) for fast grain storage. Hugh piles of corn on the ground all over the country and these structures protect some of it. Lots of wind here too. It amazes me that more of these glorified "Tents" don't go down.

Not sure about down there, but up in Canada those cover all buildings are not cheap. A pole shed isn't much more...

A1Skinner wrote:

hicountry wrote:CG...you see a lot of this type of structure being put up as cheap (?) for fast grain storage. Hugh piles of corn on the ground all over the country and these structures protect some of it. Lots of wind here too. It amazes me that more of these glorified "Tents" don't go down.

Not sure about down there, but up in Canada those cover all buildings are not cheap. A pole shed isn't much more...

No building permits, no taxes. It's not on a permanent foundation. Wish my hangar wasn't, I'm paying the sunny beaches 2% of what they say it's worth every year.
CG, nice timing. Blackfoot has been reporting UFO's

Stol wrote:The worst part is some assinine insurance company probably wrote a policy on that shit.

Well, I'm a property insurance underwriter and I won't touch those or air supported structures. Any company that would cover it will get their "pound of flesh" out of it. Then the owner will bitch about the greedy insurance company...

Not cheap, but usually they stay up. This sized one, at this site, was a colossal poor choice in retrospect, the family farm biz that put it up (twice) are real good folk, and not known for making poor business decisions. Doubt they'll try 3 times, we'll see.

And a crashed Zeppelin is what it looked like to this air minded ex carpenter, it's very close proximity to the airport heightened this impression.....a better story anyway then "grain storage structure collapses!"