The love of steel aircraft hangar
The design change actually allowed the structures to break down even smaller and made it lighter to ship. And the curved arc frame introduced by the advent of Quonset huts is still used by a lot of the current portable steel building manufacturers. The same portability and ease of construction concept that made Quonset huts so invaluable to the U. S. military is why steel buildings are such an attractive option for residential and commercial uses today.