Bessonneau hangar for Red Baron 3D by Greybeard - 8 December 2009

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
Soon after airplane appearance, need for its sheltering became urgent. Early hangars were made of canvas. Most common on allied side was the Bessonneau, which use started in January 1915 and was prolonged up to 1930s. Built in various sizes, the one here represented is the 20m x 24m, that's to say 66x79'. Having an overall height of 25'5" and 13'2" at sides, it was a 6 bay, light timber structure, covered with canvas.

FEATURES
This model replaces stock wooden "Large hangar" and, having historical dimensions, looks significantly smaller than previous, enormous shelter (which was more than 165' wide - 50m). I gave it a mix of colours, just a rough conversion of what I had to RB palette: please consider it a coarse template and feel free to repaint bitmaps at your will. Included, are high, medium and low details model.

INSTALLATION
Launch the self-extracting executable, unzipping into your Simpatch folder, overwriting any existing file.

WARNING
This patch contains an OBJDAT.DAT file, needed to match new hangar dimensions with its own shadow on ground.

Have fun!
GB