Then Mr. Bender, 75, walked to the center of the nearly empty hangar at the Cradle of Aviation Museum at Mitchel Field, delicately placed the tissue paper and balsa wood aircraft with a 13-inch windspan on the floor and released the propeller.
Earlier, in Clearwater, the small crowd looked even smaller in the cavernous, empty hangar where the rally was held.
Most of the hangar was empty.
The fact that the hangar is now nearly empty is gratifying to Amory Houghton, a former Port Authority executive who first oversaw Hangar 17, beginning in 2002, when it was filled to the brim with steel beams, damaged emergency vehicles and other debris brought from the World Trade Center site to save them for posterity.
Agents moved the detainees to a large, empty hangar on the base.
Other venues under consideration include a velodrome in the Prenzlauer Berg district and empty hangars in the defunct trade fair building.
A "Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can't Lose" sign greeted the plane, and an empty hangar waited lighted and ready for the voters who would file in just hours later.
In the film's funniest sequence, Melling oversees a heroic government-supervised makeover, performed in an empty airplane hangar by a crack team of hairdressers, make-up daubers and experts in the art of depilation.
Ernie's, at Broadway and 75th Street, is an empty aircraft hangar of a restaurant, at least during a weekday lunchtime when most gainfully employed neighborhood residents are toiling a few subway stops south.
A second kitchen usurped the hangar.
