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 to make it look like a rural subdivision from the air.
The first photo is “Before” the other photos are the “After” shots
What is humorous about this?
Nothing…but pretty cool nevertheless
Seattle Boeing Field did the same thing. http://www.taphilo.com/history/WWII/USAAF/Boeing/index.shtml
That’s pure genius! I think I also saw on History channel or Discovery how the or English hired an illusionist to help hide a specific shoreline so that the German airforces would be confused at night to their actual location for the bombing raids..