View attachment 63697 View attachment 63698 View attachment 63699 View attachment 63700 View attachment 63701 View attachment 63702 View attachment 63703 View attachment 63704 Hiding in Plain View During WW II Lockheed (unbelievable 1940s pictures). This is a version of special effects during the 1940's. During World War II the Army Corps of Engineers needed to hide the Lockheed Burbank Aircraft Plant to protect it from a possible Japanese air attack. They covered it with camouflage netting to make it look like a rural subdivision from the air.Apparently, you could walk around on top of it, and people were hired to ride around on bicycles all day to complete the effect!!
This previous thread is on the same subject. http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/general/15544-hiding-lockheed-plant-during-ww2.html Perhaps and Administrator will link them together. Regards Tom
Having worked for Lockheed I saw these pics about 30+ years ago. However, I have never seen any matching pics from any other plant. They must have done it as well. maybe it was just a Hollywood thing. Around 1985 I was at the Lockheed Burbank facility and was in the Howard Hughs airplane hanger. Without a camera! added insult was when the guy I was with went to the Skunk Works, I got dumped at the security gate!