A fellow on supercub.org from the Petersburg, NY area posted this. East coasters and midwesterners, go shovel your hangar rooves!






Ouch!

can you post them here? You have to have a log in

Photos now.

Oh man that would be terrible! If my airplane get's destroyed I hope it's from my own doing and not something like that.

AvidFlyer wrote:Oh man that would be terrible! If my airplane get's destroyed I hope it's from my own doing and not something like that.

Well, sort of. If my airplane's going to end up crunched that bad, I'd just as soon not be strapped into it, myself.

That's going to take a bit more than a roll of duct tape. Reminds me of pictures of a hangar at IAD collapsing on 6 or 7 high end bizjets a year or two ago.

Shortly after i sold my first plane, c-140, it was crushed in a hangar collapse during a tornado. A steel beam landed just behind the cabin & smashed it to about a 1/2" thick.

Lima Ohio about 4 years ago. Three rows of T hangars taken out by a tornado.

There were 5 airplanes that were totaled in that hangar collapse. I know for sure the 170 on skis had insurance, and I know the Champ and the Supercub did not. When I took those pictures my buddy was shoveling his hangar roof off, he had 3 or 4 feet on the roof.

Tim

Damn that hurts, up go the insurance rates.

My hobby shop is designed for a 40 pound snow load. That is 40 pounds per square foot. That hangar looked pretty weak.

Tim

that sucks

Just kinda makes you sick..especially that beautiful 170 on skis. Remember the Ohio tornado destruction..still makes you sick!

low rider wrote:that sucks

X2!!

I think this is yet another collapse:
http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/no ... 061-1.html

This is my plane in the hangar after a gust of wind flipped the entire roof over the back. My plane didn't have as much as a scratch... simply incdredible though.

This was a heavy duty steel I-Beam construction.

Plane sitting there pretty.

sheephunter wrote: This was a heavy duty steel I-Beam construction.

May have been a heavy duty roof that will carry a big snow load but it must have been a real light duty attachment. In windy areas you worry about uplift. And this is not bra talk.

Tim

Yep, this hangar survived 30 years of heavy snow loads that we expect every winter what we didn't expect was a wind that would lift the roof off and not even tip over a childs plastic slide set. The new hangar is ICF to the roof and the trusses are definitely secured better to the ICF walls. It was a pretty scary sight driving in to where I could start to see what had happened but yet couldn't see the plane. This was some more damage from the same gust at my house that same morning.


I can only imagine the gut wrenching those guys went through seeing their planes destroyed like that.

qmdv wrote:My hobby shop is designed for a 40 pound snow load. That is 40 pounds per square foot. That hangar looked pretty weak.

Tim

My house was built for 40psf and my rafters started pulling away last week from the ridgeboard Had over 30" of WET snow; the weight worked out to about 60psf BEFORE the rains that dumped over an inch last week. Needless to say once I heard the noises I took off work last friday and spent the day clearing off my roof. I think the total was over 130 structure failures in the last two week. Yesterday an old church pancaked and only left the front standing like in a western movie.

We are used to snow but it usually melts and doesn't hang around; even where I live in north east Connecticut I have over 30" on the ground. I have snow piles blocking my living room windows from the snow I threw off my roof. What made this snow odd was even on the front of my house it is a 11/12 pitch and I measured over 20". The back full dormer is 4/11 pitch and had the 30" still on it and was starting to give.