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Old 02-09-2007, 11:30 PM
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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.

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looks like the imges are gone?
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Nice, +5 to stealth.
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Ooops all the photos seem to be gone from the site now, I guess someone's photobucket just ran out of bandwidth.
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They're not gone, they just don't seem to support hotlinking. Copy the URL of the images (more effort i know).
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The bloody things were showing this morning (sorry first time I've been able to sort this out) but I have fixed them and they should be fine now
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wow, that's uber cool, would like to see what it looked like in real life, ie not in black and white :D
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Woow..can we hide prewe using net like that? ;)
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Woow..can we hide prewe using net like that? ;)
I don't think he'd be very happy - but I suppose we could give him a beer or two and everything would be fine!
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That sounds like a great idea! I've actually had a few beers tonight...=)
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