Did the news letter seriously include what looks like a child's drawing of the proposed new hangar?
UKARSE having a field day with our lack of professionalism. http://forums.airshows.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=67440&start=4925
What happened to the artist impression that was hanging around hangar 3 the week before last?
they love to start arguments and be-little one another (and anybody else they can pick on) on there, that's what I got fed up with and I stopped posting, especially after one of the main protaganists (or should that be antagonists) accused me of trolling and stalking - black pots and kettles etc.
Anyway back to the plot and there seems to be some confusion about what goes where, what size it is and so on (and which way round it goes on UKAR!). So this evening I've been doing some delving and trying to put together some illustrations which will hopefully clarify things for those in doubt.....
firstly from the website pages (and also I believe) a recent newsletter this illustration showing what the temp hangar will look like:
Vision - new hangar by
Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr
from studying the plan in the top right and the sketch in the newsletter last Friday I have worked out that the top left illustration is the view from the north i.e. looking towards the airport terminal, the entrance it on the east side (runway side). In the bottom part of the picture the entrance is on the right hand end and the cafe,conference rooms etc run along the east side at first floor level - the illustration shows windows at 2 levels and the sketch shows stairs to the upper level. The windows will give views across to the northern runway threshold as well as across the airport sewage treatment plant (more of that later,after nearly 40 years in the industry it's a subject close to my heart)! So with the sliding doors at the south end of the building that is how 558 will be moved in and out. now the orientation of everything should be clearer (I hope!).
for those that wonder about the size, the building is 50m x 50m plus a bit on the end on the north east corner for the entrance, how do I know - it's on the drawing in the top right of the illustration above, there's a scale on that drawing but here it is in larger format and I measured the building against that:
new hangar site plan scaled by
Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr
the drawing (when blown up a bit) also clearly shows the access into the site from the road to the other sewage treatment works, the one to the weat - that is owned and operated by Anglian Water (my former employers who by now after nearly 4 years may have finally realised that I have retired - I got no recognition of my departure whatsoever even after 38+ years service!). so there are in fact 2 sewage treatment works, one either side. I can assure you that the Anglian ones are well maintained and hardly ever smell and as for the airport one, although that treats the airport sewage it's biggest task is containing all the water run off from the airport hardstandings and treating it for all the cleansing and de-icing fluids etc before passing it into the balancing pond to the north of the building which controls it's flow into the receiving brooks. The plant is close to the building and it looks like an aeration type which are very efficient and create little odour which appears to be a concern on UKAR, the 2 big lagoons beyond that are 2 stages of purification with aeration (on google earth you can see the aerators) this ensures a very clean final effluent. so that's cleaned/cleared that one up!
Here's a link to the airport website page all about their water treatment processes:
http://flydsa.co.uk/about-us/environment/water/The layout overall can be seen here in a picture I made using google earth and overlaying the plan from the illustration:
new hangar overlay to google earth image by
Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr
finally, some people still don't seem sure where all this is going to happen so here's a general location plan of the north west corner of the airfield, you can see the top 2 hangars (is the one on the right hangar 1?), the runway threshold and Hayfield Lane which leads to the site (and to the sewage treatment woks).
new hangar location by
Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr
there we are sickbag-andy's guide to the temporary hangar, hope it helps as it took me quite a while to put it together but it might help slow down the rumour mills grinding away elsewhere and misleading a few of us on here.
Andy
