| Tango01 | 05 Jan 2014 9:11 p.m. PST |
"This over one mile-high tower was intended to defend Paris against air attacks. Each level included « bomb-proof » bays from which were to be launched fighters. Civilian applications were also planned like a sanitarium and a meteorological station.
Henri Lossier was no crackpot scientist : he designed the hangars for the Le Bourget airport (then Paris main airport) and the airship hangar at Ecausseville (both buildings survive to this day).
As a civil engineer , he invented a new kind of cement based on calcium sulfoalminates : the « Lossier cement ». No doubt that this cement tower would have been an application of his incention…"
Full article here.
link Great!. Are there any model of this building in 1/72 or 28mm?. Amicalement
Armand |
| CraigH | 05 Jan 2014 10:19 p.m. PST |
Well I don't know Armand, but are there many hobbyists who have room for a 73' tower ? (one mile in 1/72)  |
| Glengarry5 | 05 Jan 2014 10:48 p.m. PST |
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 Dan Cyr  | 05 Jan 2014 11:06 p.m. PST |
Could do it in 1/600 (3 mm). That would be what in scale (smile)? Dan |
| VonTed | 06 Jan 2014 4:14 a.m. PST |
How would the planes land?! Or was the idea to land on the ground and elevate the plans back up? |
| J Womack 94 | 06 Jan 2014 7:29 a.m. PST |
1/600 would be about 11'. 1/1200 would be 5'-6", and 1/2400 would be a managable (but still immense) 2'-10". Or: 1/600 = 3.33m, 1/1200 = 1.67m, 1/2400 = 83cm. And it's height, 6560 ft, is right at 2km. |
| J Womack 94 | 06 Jan 2014 7:29 a.m. PST |
But it's cool looking, no doubt! |
| Tango01 | 06 Jan 2014 10:26 a.m. PST |
You are right about the size!. Amicalement
Armand |
| tsofian | 06 Jan 2014 4:08 p.m. PST |
Someone should do these on Shapeways, the 1/72 scale one would look great in my yard, but I would probably need a permit |
| tsofian | 06 Jan 2014 4:14 p.m. PST |
So they put a sanitarium at 4,000 feet |
| anleiher | 06 Jan 2014 6:44 p.m. PST |
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| J Womack 94 | 08 Jan 2014 12:20 a.m. PST |
Sanitarium as in a sanitary place – a medical hospital, not an asylum, I am guessing. |
| J Womack 94 | 08 Jan 2014 12:21 a.m. PST |
@VonTed: Gotta be land on the ground and use the big elevators. |
| Karellian Knight | 29 Jan 2014 9:40 a.m. PST |
I wonder what the footprint of that structure would be. At a rough estimate 320 yards in diameter. |
| kmfrye | 02 Feb 2014 8:52 a.m. PST |
Ah, the damage that thing would do when it collapses… |
