Monday, March 06, 2023

Was on Jeopardy (a few years ago)

on JEOPARDY the giant Hangar at NAS Lakehurst, New Jersey, was part of the answer/question. Alex said the size of the hangar is as big as three football fields. I did not know that. I used to see it every day when I was stationed at the base. Our helicopter headquarters was there. If the biggest hangar is Hangar #1 the hangar we were at was Hangar #3, if I remember correctly. Hangar #3 was a big hangar also. Not as big as Hangar #1 but still big. The huge sliding doors stayed opened most the time in daylight hours. It is (or was then) facing a massive flat area. A lot of helicopters were coming and going. The massive flat area was at least two miles in distance to the other side, maybe more. And after that there is a long runway for large military airplanes. By the time the wind traveled over all that flat area it would build a force. The hangar is facing west. There seemed to be always a strong massive wind coming from the west. The back of the hangar are two regular size doors. I remember for fun sometimes in the small door way, leaving the hangar I could jump just a little in the air and a shot of wind funneled into a giant room would shoot me a foot or two out the back door. I felt like a pea shooting out of a pea shooter. I felt magic!

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