3D print Hangar One (Moffett Federal Airfield)
A free, printable 3D model of Hangar One and the surrounding airfield and buildings, generated from real map data in your browser.
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Hangar One (Moffett Federal Airfield) in 3D
The landmark on its own, at its size on a 160 mm print. Print friendly thickens thin parts for a 0.4 mm nozzle; Full detail keeps every part.
- Real height
- 60 m
- On a 160 mm print
- 12 mm
- Scale
- 1:5,000
60 m of Hangar One (Moffett Federal Airfield), 12 mm on your shelf
Make this print opens the generator on a 800 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
- A long, smooth curved roof
A hangar with walls curving into one long arch shows layer lines on its roof. A finer layer height, 0.12–0.16 mm, keeps the curve smooth.
- One piece with the ground
Hangar One (Moffett Federal Airfield) is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. Hangar One (Moffett Federal Airfield) takes the building color.
- File format
You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About Hangar One (Moffett Federal Airfield)
Hangar One stands on Moffett Field, near Mountain View, California. It counts among the world's largest freestanding structures, occupying 8 acres (32,000 m2). It dates from the 1930s and was built as a naval hangar for the airship USS Macon. It belongs to the NASA Ames Research Center and is long regarded as among the most recognizable landmarks in California's Silicon Valley.
Karl Arnstein, a German airship and structural engineer with the Goodyear Zeppelin Corporation, designed Hangar One together with Wilbur Watson Associates of Cleveland, Ohio. Its frame is a network of steel girders covered in galvanized steel, standing on a reinforced pad anchored with concrete pilings. The hangar stretches 1,133 feet (345 m) in length with a width of 308 feet (94 m). Its walls curve inward into a long, roughly catenary shape rising 198 feet (60 m).
The shape is aerodynamic. On windy days the clam-shell doors were intended to ease turbulence as Macon went in and out. Each of the "orange peel" doors weighs 200 short tons (180 metric tons) and has its own 150-horsepower (110 kW) motor. Inside, the space is big enough for fog to form near the ceiling at times. Shenandoah Plaza National Historic District, with Hangar One inside it, entered the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.
About this model
Hangar One (Moffett Federal Airfield) is one of more than 5,500 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Each model is written as code from public descriptions, plans, photographs and aerial views used only as references; no image or third-party model is copied into it. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. Rights in the building itself, its name and any brands on it are not granted by Mini Skyline; clear them separately before you sell prints. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
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