Southern California hangar fire: Air base was a major Hollywood player in 'Star Trek,' 'Pearl Harbor' and more
LOS ANGELES — Film location manager Steve Woroniecki remembered getting lost in the vastness of the north blimp hangar in Tustin. The World War II-era hangar had a way of challenging people's sense of scale — it made a quarry dump truck look like a toy car; it reduced a blimp to a miniature model of itself. This excited Woroniecki and the production team for the 2009 "Star Trek" reboot, which ...
by Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times
Nov 08, 2023
3 minutes
LOS ANGELES — Film location manager Steve Woroniecki remembered getting lost in the vastness of the north blimp hangar in Tustin.
The World War II-era hangar had a way of challenging people's sense of scale — it made a quarry dump truck look like a toy car; it reduced a blimp to a miniature model of itself.
This excited Woroniecki and the production team for the 2009 "" reboot, which needed a building large enough to pose as a futuristic hangar in the year 2258 that would house
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