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• World War 2 Camouflage - Hiding the Lockheed Plant (photos). And note the concealment possibilities

Postby tabby » 12 Jul 2011 02:54

World War 2 Camouflage - Hiding the Lockheed Plant
1940? Camouflage. Online descriptions say there was a Boeing Plant at Lakewood, CA, near Long Beach airport, and a Lockheed plant at Burbank. (I think these were separate - it's not entirely clear). The Army Corps of Engineers, to protect from a possible Japanese air attack, covered it with camouflage netting to make it look like a rural subdivision from the air. You could drive under the camouflage netting. It was strong enough to walk on, and they hired people to ride bicycles and move around as if they lived there to make it look authentic.

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Well, this is the off-topic section!
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Re: World War 2 Camouflage - Hiding the Lockheed Plant (phot

Postby FirstClassSkeptic » 12 Jul 2011 22:50

That's a new one for me. I've never seen this before.

Now, could this be used as a stage prop to fake a nuclear blast?
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Re: World War 2 Camouflage - Hiding the Lockheed Plant (phot

Postby rerevisionist » 13 Jul 2011 11:23

Interesting comment, FirstClass. My instant reaction was, obviously not. But in fact a sandy, desert-type camouflage could hide a huge pile of explosives, couldn't it. They could be in a pit, with a covering level with the ground surface. You might need signs warning people to keep away!
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Re: World War 2 Camouflage - Hiding the Lockheed Plant (phot

Postby tabby » 13 Jul 2011 13:11

Here are a few more

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Two that show detail at the edges - see how the slope up from ground level was managed and blured
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Here's an airplane!
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Re: World War 2 Camouflage - Hiding the Lockheed Plant (phot

Postby FirstClassSkeptic » 15 Jul 2011 12:39

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... rkers.html

Hidden under black netting in the remote Mexican desert... the largest ever marijuana plantation (even with toilets for the workers)

By Daily Mail Reporter


Mexican soldiers discovered the largest marijuana plantation in the country's history, hidden under black cloth in the middle of the desert.

The 300-acre plantation is four times larger than the previous record discovery by authorities and workers had even installed toilet facilities, the Defence Department said.

The towering pot plants sheltered under black screen-cloth in a huge square on the floor of the Baja California desert, more than 150 miles south of Tijuana, across the border from San Diego.


It doesn't look like camouflage. But that's what they called it.
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Re: World War 2 Camouflage - Hiding the Lockheed Plant (phot

Postby rerevisionist » 15 Jul 2011 14:08

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300 acres converts to about 1/2 sq mile. About 1000 yards square. Surely they could have made the edges irregular and painted it ochre - yellow - buff with greenish brown zig zags with maybe some soil and plants. These aliens just don't understand simple camouflage.
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Re: World War 2 Camouflage - Hiding the Lockheed Plant (phot

Postby tabby » 24 Aug 2011 13:34

Not the same as faked videos, but I see this piece can fit in this section!
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