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chillin'Now Playing: Under The Fake House - "Tarp" is Lockheed Aircraft Factory
Topic: WAR
We've heard of stealth airplanes, but never a stealth airplane factory. What you're seeing above is a photo, circa World War II, of a Lockheed aircraft factory in Burbank, California. The US Army Corps of Engineers was given the task of hiding it--the whole darn thing--from air visibility, so Japanese bombers coming off the Pacific wouldn't spot it.
How did they pull it off? Click here to see how they disguised the entire factory as a suburb by wrapping it in camouflage netting, prop houses, and what has to be the largest trompe l'oeil ever made. It's Christo meets Carpaccio...meets G.I. Joe.
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+++ The pictures and article I found here +++
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/09/an_early_green.php
Posted by Joe Anybody
at 7:06 PM PDT
