American Ingenuity, WW II, how to hide an aircraft plant.

O/T but cool nonetheless........
http://thinkorthwim.com/2007/08/19/1034/

 

I remember seeing something on TV about that a few years ago. Defintiely good ol American ingenuity

 

holy ****! that's f-ing cool!

 

that is pretty awesome...

 

Isn't that crazy? Simply amazing. I think I have a few more pics. Let me try to dig them up.

 

Very convincing.

 

That neat

 

That is what Cheech and Chong did to hide their pot farm. The cover got a hole in it when the police were flying over in a chopper and Cheech was on a ladder looking like he was swimming on the pool printed on the covering.

 

some of you guys should do that to hide all of the unregistered junkers in your back yards..

 

kind of the opposite of ollins idea , but my friend was going to hire an artist to paint a picture of his junkers on the fence that the county told him to put up.

 

Too cool!

 

Very cool.

Look at all those coupes...where are they now???

 

whoa I have never seen that before. Pretty cool.

 

I need to do that in my back yard to hide my junk from the satellite cameras.

 

I have a write up of this in a 50s Popular Science magazine with a bunch of pics.There were actually a bunch of people that worked up on the roof some actually did gardening and normal daily life things up there!,Others moved scenery around "pedestrian "mannicans cars etc.It was their job to make the roof top look as real; as possible some of the houses were real to the extent that daily needs could be met in them like cooking and bathrooms.If I could lay my hands on it i would post the article for all to read.As I have said to many times almost all my books are in storage right now

 

ya that was on the history channel or as i call it the hitler channel almost 24hrs of ww2 and hitler stories i love it

 

So where is all of that now? Could you imagine finding an entire suburb rolled up like a rug in the ba*****t of some government building??

 

Here is boeings roof camo during WWII in Seattle

 

I know exactly were that was, how awesome.

 

I somehow can't imagine that happening today.

-Brad

 

The Curtis-Wright airplane engine factory in Woodridge, NJ also had this done to it and is supposed to still have painted on steets and sidewalks on the roofs.

Frank

 

That's Plant 2 in Seattle, did some work in there when I did commercial HVAC stuff. Inside it does not look like much has changed since 1944. Mainly R&D stuff there now. This is where the real hammering goes on...




This pic show final approach runway 34R (3000 x 75 feet), that's the Everett pplant in background- all one building almost a mile and a half away!

 

Yeah, there would be a bunch of media kooks doing stories on it about five minutes after it was built.

 

They tried that here in Md. at the Lockheed Martin's Marietta airport during the war but they forgot to take into account that it snows here in Md. A snow storm brought the camo net down on the cars in the parking lot. It was a hell of a mess, so my dad told me........

 

I'd never seen that....superb!
We had a few similair things over here such as inflatable tanks/trucks/aircraft that looked pretty convincing. The boffins also looked at an industrial area from above at night and copied it's 'lighting pattern' in an empty field some miles away. Then turned the lights off in the 'real' area. So in effect if anyone flew over at night they would bomb the dummy empty field which was surrounded with AA batteries.

 

Also reminds me of Patton's fake, rubber blow-up army, prior to D-day.

 

too cool

 

In a similar vein, I'm a big fan of Razzle Dazzle painting, a camouflage technique used on ships to disguise their silhouette, before the birth of radar made it ineffective.


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Here's the wikipedia article on the subject:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage

 

Americans... we are the greatest.

 

Some of us are.