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26-634: (Redirected from P-44 ) P44 or P-44 may refer to: Vessels [ edit ] ARA  Parker  (P-44) , a corvette of the Argentine Navy HMS ; United  (P44) , a submarine of the Royal Navy INS ; Kirpan  (P44) , a corvette of the Indian Navy Spanish patrol vessel  Tornado  (P-44) Other uses [ edit ] P44 (classification) ,

52-444: A Modern pentathlon classification Feinwerkbau P44 , a match pistol MAPK3 , p44 mitogen-activated protein kinase P44 road (Ukraine) Papyrus 44 , a biblical manuscript Phosphorus-44 , an isotope of phosphorus Republic P-44 Rocket , a proposed American fighter aircraft P44, a Latvian state regional road [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

78-423: A helicopter. The first three ships of the class were fitted with a landing pad but did not have a hangar. Between 1990 and 2000, Parker was effectively the last ship of her class, as budgetary cuts delayed and almost cancelled the construction of the final two ships, Robinson and Gómez Roca . Following her commissioning Parker participated in several naval exercises and conducted fishery patrol duties in

104-502: A house"), of Germanic origin, from Frankish * haimgard ("home-enclosure", "fence around a group of houses"), from * haim ("home, village, hamlet") and gard ("yard"). The term, gard , comes from the Old Norse garðr ("enclosure, garden"). Hangars are used for protection from the weather, direct sunlight and for maintenance, repair, manufacture, assembly and storage of aircraft. The Wright brothers stored and repaired their aircraft in

130-577: A hydraulic crane was installed to permit the deployment of 5.5-metre (18 ft) semi-rigid fast boats while space, previously used for the storage of MM38 Exocet missiles, was converted into extra personnel accommodation space. The work had been scheduled for completion by the end of 2023. However, the work was reported as continuing as of early 2024. Hangar A hangar is a building or structure designed to hold aircraft or spacecraft . Hangars are built of metal, wood, or concrete. The word hangar comes from Middle French hanghart ("enclosure near

156-636: A wooden hangar constructed in 1902 at Kill Devil Hills in North Carolina for their glider . After completing design and construction of the Wright Flyer in Ohio , the brothers returned to Kill Devil Hills only to find their hangar damaged. They repaired the structure and constructed a new workshop while they waited for the Flyer to be shipped. Carl Richard Nyberg used a hangar to store his 1908 Flugan (fly) in

182-659: The Graf Zeppelin and the Hindenburg . The largest hangars ever built include the Goodyear Airdock measuring 1,175x325x211 feet and Hangar One (Mountain View, California) measuring 1,133 ft × 308 ft × 198 ft (345 m × 94 m × 60 m). The Goodyear Airdock , is in Akron, Ohio and the structure was completed on November 25, 1929. The Airdock

208-751: The Bessonneau hangar and the side-opening aeroplane shed of 1913, both of which were soon adopted by the Royal Flying Corps . Examples of the latter survive at Farnborough , Filton and Montrose airfields. During World War I, other standard designs included the RFC General Service Flight Shed and the Admiralty F-Type of 1916, the General Service Shed (featuring the characteristic Belfast-truss roof and built-in various sizes) and

234-570: The Handley Page aeroplane shed (1918). Sheds built for rigid airships survive at Moffett Field, California ; Akron, Ohio ; Weeksville, North Carolina ; Lakehurst, New Jersey ; Santa Cruz Air Force Base in Brazil; and Cardington, Bedfordshire . Steel rigid airship hangars are some of the largest in the world. Hangar 1, Lakehurst, is located at Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst (formerly Naval Air Station Lakehurst), New Jersey. The structure

260-529: The Hangar do Zeppelin  [ pt ] for the German Zeppelins , and the U.S. government constructed Moffett Field , Mountain View , California and Lakehurst Naval Air Station , Lakehurst, New Jersey . Many warships carry aircraft and will often have hangars for storage and maintenance. Such hangars may be situated adjacent to the flight deck on cruisers , destroyers and frigates or underneath

286-521: The American FAA proposed legislation of how a hangar can be used on airfields that receive government funding. The definition of allowed activities included final assembly of aircraft. Airship hangars or airship sheds are generally larger than conventional aircraft hangars, particularly in height. Most early airships used hydrogen gas to provide them with sufficient buoyancy for flight, so their hangars had to provide protection from stray sparks to keep

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312-758: The Argentine exclusive economic zone . In 1995 she represented the Argentine Navy in the Naval Parade conducted in Cape Town as part of the celebrations of the 75th anniversary of the South African Navy . She is homeported at Puerto Belgrano Naval Base and is part of the 2nd Corvette Division with her five sister ships. Parker is being converted to the offshore patrol role at the Tandanor shipyard. For that role,

338-655: The Argentine Navy to replace old World War II -vintage ships with more advanced warships. The original plan called for six MEKO 360H2 destroyers , four of them to be built in Argentina, but the plan was later modified to include four MEKO destroyers and six corvettes for anti-surface warfare and patrol operations. Espora was constructed at the Río Santiago Shipyard of the Astilleros y Fábricas Navales del Estado (State Shipyards and Naval Factories) state corporation. She

364-655: The United States were built as part of the coastal defence plan; a total of 17 hangars were built. Hangars at these bases are some of the world's largest freestanding timber structures. Bases with wooden hangars included: the Naval Air Stations at South Weymouth , Massachusetts (1 hangar); Lakehurst, New Jersey (2); Weeksville, North Carolina (1); Glynco, Georgia (2); Richmond, Florida (3); Houma, Louisiana (1); Hitchcock, Texas (1); Tustin (Santa Ana), California (2); Moffett Field, California (2) and Tillamook, Oregon (2). Of

390-570: The aircraft entrance. The bigger the aircraft to be introduced, the more complex a structure is needed. According to the span of the hangar, sizes can be classified thus: XXL hangars are built for the largest aircraft in the world like the Airbus A380 , Boeing 747 and the Antonov 225 , which are the most complex to erect. Hangars are usually regulated by the building codes in the countries and jurisdictions and airports where they reside. In August 2014,

416-551: The early 20th century and in 1909, Louis Bleriot crash-landed on a northern French farm in Les Baraques (between Sangatte and Calais ) and rolled his monoplane into the farmer's cattle pen. Bleriot was in a race to be the first man to cross the English Channel in a heavier-than-air aircraft, and he and set up his headquarters in the unused shed. In Britain, the earliest aircraft hangars were known as aeroplane sheds , and

442-429: The fixed hangar is a portable shelter that can be used for aircraft storage and maintenance. Portable fabric structures can be built up to 215 ft (66 m) wide, 100 ft (30 m) high and any length. They are able to accommodate several aircraft and can be increased in size and even relocated when necessary. Hangars need special structures to be built. The width of the doors have to be large; this includes

468-645: The gas from exploding. Hangars that held several airships were at risk from chain-reaction explosions. For this reason, most hangars for hydrogen-based airships were built to house only one or two such craft. During the "Golden Age" of airship travel from 1900, mooring masts and sheds were constructed to build and house airships. The British government built a shed in Karachi for the R101 , the Brazilian government built one in Rio de Janeiro ,

494-620: The oldest survivors of these are at Larkhill , Wiltshire. These were built in 1910 for the Bristol School of Flying and are now Grade II* Listed buildings . British aviation pioneer Alliott Verdon Roe built one of the first aeroplane sheds in 1907 at Brooklands , Surrey and full-size replicas of this and the 1908 Roe biplane are on display at Brooklands Museum . As aviation became established in Britain before World War I, standard designs of hangar gradually appeared with military types too such as

520-657: The same title formed as a letter–number combination. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=P44&oldid=1117711598 " Category : Letter–number combination disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages ARA Parker (P-44) The Argentine Navy struggles to meet maintenance and training requirements because of financial problems and import restrictions. The status of Parker

546-404: The seventeen, only seven remain, Moffett Federal Field , (former NAS Moffett Field), California (2); former Tustin, California (former NAS Santa Ana and MCAS Tustin), California (2); Tillamook Air Museum / Tillamook Airport (former NAS Tillamook), Oregon (1) and Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst /Naval Support Activity Lakehurst (former NAS Lakehurst), New Jersey (2). A hangar for Cargolifter

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572-453: Was launched on 30 March 1984, but flooding on 2 October 1986 delayed completion. In 1988 her pennant number was changed from P-13 to P-44 in line with the rest of the class. She was officially delivered to the Navy on 2 April 1990 and commissioned on 17 April of that year. Parker is the first ship of the class' second batch, and incorporated a telescopic hangar , allowing the ship to carry

598-592: Was built at Brand-Briesen Airfield 1,180 ft (360 m) long, 705 ft (215 m) wide and 348 ft (106 m) high and is a free standing steel-dome "barrel-bowl" construction large enough to fit the Eiffel Tower on its side. The company went into insolvency and in June 2003, the facilities were sold off and the airship hangar was converted to a 'tropical paradise'-themed indoor holiday resort called Tropical Islands , which opened in 2004. An alternative to

624-591: Was completed in 1921 and is typical of airship hangar designs of World War I. The site is best known for the Hindenburg disaster , when on May 6, 1937, the German airship Hindenburg crashed and burned while landing. Hangar No.1 at Lakehurst was used to build and store the American USS Shenandoah . The hangar also provided service and storage for the airships USS Los Angeles , Akron , Macon , as well as

650-457: Was not clear, as of November 2012 she was waiting for spares. As of 2021, Parker was scheduled for repair work, and conversion to the offshore patrol role, at the Tandanor state-owned shipyard in Buenos Aires. The work to convert the ship to her new role was expected to last through 2023. Parker and her sister ships were part of the 1974 Naval Constructions National Plan, an initiative by

676-569: Was used for the construction of the USS Akron and her sister ship, the USS Macon . Hangar One at Moffett Federal Field (formerly Naval Air Station Moffett Field ), is located in Mountain View , California. The structure was completed in 1931. It housed the USS Macon . The U.S. Navy established more airship operations during WWII. As part of this, ten "lighter-than-air" (LTA) bases across

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