"During World War II the Army Corps of Engineers needed to hide the Lockheed Burbank Aircraft Plant to protect it from a Japanese air attack. They covered it with camouflage netting and trompe l’oeil to make it look like a rural subdivision from the air."
http://thinkorthwim.com/2007/08/19/1034/
Camouflage: How to hide an aircraft factory
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Re: Camouflage: How to hide an aircraft factory
I think Churchill did the same thing during the war to hide a whole town from zee Germans. I cant remember where it was though.
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Re: Camouflage: How to hide an aircraft factory
I believe they also did something similar to the Lockheed (I think?) plant in San Diego. My grandma was just a little girl then but she remembers it. Camo netting over all of the roads, etc.
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I have to wonder how much harder camo on such a scale would be in todays' techno world with thermal sighting and other advances available on most aircraft and satillites.
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Re: Camouflage: How to hide an aircraft factory
That's pretty freakin' amazing.GeneralDiscontent wrote:http://thinkorthwim.com/2007/08/19/1034/
I'm sure it'd be doable to dampen or camouflage most thermal signatures. Expensive, but completely doable. High resolution and composite imaging would probably be a bigger problem to get around.yale wrote:I have to wonder how much harder camo on such a scale would be in todays' techno world with thermal sighting and other advances available on most aircraft and satillites.