aidenmac16
Airman
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- Oct 15, 2024
Question: What is a Quonset Hut?
What is a Quonset Hut?
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cvairwerks
Staff Sergeant
A bolt together, light weight, steel building, shaped in a slightly exaggerated hemispherical shape.
www.columbiamissourian.com
World War II-era Quonset huts provide cramped but affordable housing
COLUMBIA — Take a gigantic aluminum can, slice it in half and cut holes for windows and doors. Just like that, you have a Quonset hut.
PETERTHEEATER
Airman
Hot in the summer, cold in the winter. 
AMCKen
Senior Airman
Obligatory Quonset Hut anecdote.
Neil Armstrong had his first airplane ride as a 5-year old in Warren, Ohio. His father was a tax auditor for the state of Ohio, so the family moved around a lot. I think he graduated from a high school in the Cleveland area.
At some time, a Quonset Hut hangar was erected at this little airport just west of Warren. By the time I came along in the 1960s, the airport had been replaced with a shopping center, but the quonset hut was now the Aerodrome Tavern. It was my grandmother's favorite watering hole. I shudder to think of how many 7&7s she'd consumed there over the years.
Alas, the quonset hut was torn down, sometime after the 1980s when I left town to move to Houston and my career at NASA. However, this has been erected to commemorate the event (since nobody had a Ford Trimotor handy):
Neil Armstrong had his first airplane ride as a 5-year old in Warren, Ohio. His father was a tax auditor for the state of Ohio, so the family moved around a lot. I think he graduated from a high school in the Cleveland area.
At some time, a Quonset Hut hangar was erected at this little airport just west of Warren. By the time I came along in the 1960s, the airport had been replaced with a shopping center, but the quonset hut was now the Aerodrome Tavern. It was my grandmother's favorite watering hole. I shudder to think of how many 7&7s she'd consumed there over the years.
Alas, the quonset hut was torn down, sometime after the 1980s when I left town to move to Houston and my career at NASA. However, this has been erected to commemorate the event (since nobody had a Ford Trimotor handy):
SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
Hope they taught swimming.
Thumpalumpacus
Major
I'm so glad the USAF never put me in one. Dad would take us to White Sands when he had CQ over the weekend, and those things were miserable.
MIflyer
1st Lieutenant
Jabba the Hut's cousin.
We had them in Wildflecken, in Germany, for offices at the munitions point.
If they were insulated they weren't too bad in the winter, and we didn't have to worry about the snow load.
In the mountains in Germany it never got that hot in the summer.
If they were insulated they weren't too bad in the winter, and we didn't have to worry about the snow load.
In the mountains in Germany it never got that hot in the summer.
MIflyer
1st Lieutenant
In Columbia SC I recall two houses that were based on Quonset huts. They were on a street of little homes built in the late 40's and the two that used surplus Quonset huts had regular style porches and decorations added so that it was not obvious they were of basic different construction.
Barrett
Senior Airman
Seems an odd question considering that 5-10 seconds on Google or Duck-duck Go would provide lots of info.
HP52
Airman
Thanks for that - great explanation as to why Australia has Nissen huts
HP52
