Big Wood

Tillamook and Tustin are over 20,000 square meters.

Wikipedia seems to think that a Buddhist temple in Japan is the biggest wooden building at 2,800 square meters. Tillamook is nearly ten times that size.

The Tacoma dome has to rate right up there - for the roof.

------------------------------------- Can't comment on the hanger at Tustin, but it rained more than once inside the Goodyear blimp hanger in Akron, OH.

Probably had something to do with the stellar weather in NE Ohio.

Lew

thouand feet long, almost 300 feet wide, and 192 feet tall. The Tustin hangars are the same design (they were mass-produced to a standard plan during WWII).

For low values of mass produced ... :o)

Or NW Ohio. It's not the heat, ...

Don't recall it raining in the MCAS Tustin hangar but had clouds form about three times a year. Had to have the weather just right because the humidity was normally too low.

How do those compare to the Coney Island Cyclone?

You could fit several Coney Island Cyclones into the Tilamook or Tustin hangars. Can't find exact dimensions on the Cyclone, but measuring it with Google Earth it's a little under 500 feet long and about a hundred feet wide and the Wikipedia entry says that it's about 85 feet high.

The hangars really were mass-produced. The structure was all built in a factory somewhere as subassemblies that would fit on a truck or flatcar and delivered to the construction site where it was assembled. Same concept as roof trusses today, only _big_.

The domes had sub-assemblies Factory produced. Mass production implies hundreds, if not thousands of domes.