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House 
The final touch 
that means longer wear 
The new home of cement or stucco is not com¬ 
plete until Bay State Coating is applied. For 
Bay State turns the original dull gray color 
to a pure, rich white or one of many beautiful 
tints. 
And in beautifying, Bay State Coating also 
protects. It sinks into the surface and literally 
becomes a part of the wall it covers. 
Bay State waterproofs all houses of brick, 
cement or stucco. Dampness will not seep in. 
Driving rains cannot beat through it. Broil¬ 
ing sun or heavy snows have no effect on Bay 
State whatsoever. 
Old houses grow young after one or two appli¬ 
cations of Bay State Brick and Cement Coat¬ 
ing. It forestalls repair bills. Architects and 
owners agree that it is the master coating. 
We should like to send you a sample of white 
or your favorite tint. Booklet No. 2 shows 
many homes made beautiful with Bay State. 
Your request on a postal will bring you both. 
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WADSWORTH, HOWLAND & CO., Inc. 
Paint and Varnish Makers 
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 
New York Office, 
Architects Bldg. 
THE BAY STATER 
Philadelphia Office, 
1524 Chestnut Street. 
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Brick and Cement Coating 
-- & Garden 
HOME HANGARS FOR THE ’PLANE 
OR FLYING BOAT 
GEORGE W. SUTTON, Jr. 
AS the sport of flying becomes more 
A and more a part of our social 
life, the question of private han¬ 
gars is going to receive more and more 
attention. It is quite true that for your 
airplane or flying boat you need a stor¬ 
age space similar in many ways to the 
garage in which you house your auto¬ 
mobile. But, except in very rare in¬ 
stances, the motor car garage is in no 
way adaptable to the protection of the 
flying craft. The airplane takes up 
much more room than the motor car. 
Spare parts, such as wings, rudders, 
propellers, and so forth are considerably 
larger than motor car parts and neces¬ 
sarily require greater space for storage. 
With the land machine the housing 
proposition is not so serious as is the 
absolute requirement for a long, smooth 
space in which to land the machine. 
More of that anon. 
In the older days of motoring it was 
the custom to build a garage to con¬ 
form to the general design of a country 
house and to buy a machine to fit the 
garage. Now, however, in laying out 
an estate a man has a pretty definite 
idea of the car or cars he is going to 
possess and his garage is built accord¬ 
ingly. It is constructed with much 
thought to the storage of gasoline, oil 
and heavy equipment and other things 
which take up space and which, if left 
out of the consideration, must be stored 
outside or in a leanto against the 
garage, an unsightly, bulky and incon¬ 
venient arrangement. 
Two Kinds of Craft 
There are two kinds of flying ma¬ 
chines for our consideration. One is 
the land craft, the other the water craft. 
The person who has a home on a pro¬ 
tected body of water has a compara¬ 
tively simple problem in housing his 
hydro-airplane or flying boat. The 
question is hardly more intricate than 
that of providing suitable quarters for 
a motorboat or small yacht. The wing 
span of sporting airplanes and flying 
boats varies from 25' to 40', the length 
from front to rear is usually from 25' 
to 30'. The height varies from 12' to 
18'. Several designers of aircraft are 
now building machines with folding 
wings in order to ameliorate the hous¬ 
ing problem. This development, how¬ 
ever, has not come into common usage 
as yet, so in any discussion of hangars 
we must consider only the ’plane or 
flying boat with rigid wings. In the 
case of the boat you need a skid or 
runway from the hangar direct to 
the water’s edge; the water in which 
you launch your machine does not 
necessarily have to be deep, as the 
pontoons or hulls of a flying boat or 
hydro-airplane require only 2" to 4" 
draft. 
In considering the height of your 
Materials and Construction 
The hangar must be windproof and 
solid. Sheet iron has been found a very 
good lining for airplane hangars be¬ 
cause of the simplicity of construction 
and the ease with which it can be al¬ 
tered. If one’s hangar is near a munici¬ 
pal landing field, with which many cities 
are now equipped, the entrance to the 
hangar should be from a very broad 
roadway leading to a main road so that 
you can wheel the machine or “taxi” 
out to the flying field. If there is no 
flying field near your hangar, you must 
provide one with at least a 100' run in 
every direction. 
The architectural design of a hangar 
may be any one of a number of diver¬ 
sified types. Probably the best for all 
practical purposes is that with leanto 
sides. 
hangar, it should be remembered that 
many times it is necessary to climb a 
stepladder and work on the top wings. 
This is very important, as the machine 
must be inspected thoroughly before 
every flight. 
The land ’plane is usually of larger 
dimensions than the flying boat and 
hangar space should provide for from 
35' to 40' wing spread. The doors 
should be sliding and so constructed 
that when they are pushed back the full 
front of the hangar is open. It has been 
found that a concrete floor with a drain 
in the center is the best arrangement. 
Since you must care for a flying ma¬ 
chine as you would a motor car and 
wash it frequently with soft soap and 
lukewarm water, it is essential that suffi¬ 
cient room be left around the machine 
and above it to do this work without 
cramping. 
The danger from the exhaust from 
an airplane is greater than that from a 
motor car; therefore, gasoline and other 
explosive materials should be stored un¬ 
derground, or at least outside and away 
from the garage. The fabric of an air¬ 
plane is combustible when exposed to 
a direct flame. This fabric is easily 
damaged by tools and other hard ob¬ 
jects falling on it. A special room 
should be provided for the storing of 
tools, of which there are two distinct 
kinds. One set entailing the use of sev¬ 
eral hundred instruments is known as 
the rigging set and is used on all parts 
of the ’plane excepting the motor. For 
the motor, an ordinary set of me¬ 
chanic’s tools is adequate. The tool¬ 
room should be equipped with a good- 
sized work bench and lockers and draw¬ 
ers for the storing of tools in an efficient 
manner. The workroom should also be 
equipped with a vise, a blow-torch and 
other paraphernalia because it is found 
necessary to replace wires, turnbuckles, 
cotter-pins and other bits of metal 
about the ’plane. 
