2006-09-20 01:51:10 · 11 answers · asked by emma b 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
It's not hanger, though it sounds like it. It's hangar. It's a French word, meaning storage/home base.
2006-09-20 01:54:49 · answer #1 · answered by browneyedgirl 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The original planes, back in the middle ages, were actually made of fabric, sometimes even fine silk !
After flying through a rain cloud they would get wet, so they were taken into a special shed and hung up to dry.
This shed is called a hanger and the name has never changed in all those centuries of powered flight. Even when paper took over from fabric, still they used the same name (you would have thought that then they would have put them in a `folder` eh ?). Then through the age of aluminium (alooominooom for american readers) they were going to call it `the can` but common sense prevailed and the "hanger" carried on being the place where we all kept our aeroplanes right up to the present day.
Amazing, but strangely true.
2006-09-20 10:54:19 · answer #2 · answered by Robert Abuse 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
First of all, it's not a hanger but a hangar.
2006-09-20 09:28:56 · answer #3 · answered by luosechi 駱士基 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The word hangar comes from a northern French dialect, and literally means "cattle pen".
2006-09-20 08:56:58 · answer #4 · answered by whaaatthe 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
back from the scottish for under the kilts
hanging or hangers
2006-09-20 08:54:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Back in the 1700's they used to execute people there
2006-09-22 09:33:38 · answer #6 · answered by gifted 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because people become very hangry as soon as they get into that doomed aeroplane!
2006-09-20 09:00:16 · answer #7 · answered by theRAM 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
its called a hangar i don know y
2006-09-20 14:05:45 · answer #8 · answered by crusader 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
browneyed you are a clever girl me thinks
2006-09-20 08:56:40 · answer #9 · answered by bty10271499 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because its where they hang out kid
2006-09-21 14:50:10 · answer #10 · answered by pixie007 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋