1 posted on
03/15/2011 12:49:27 PM PDT by
Keltik
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To: Keltik
Wow, that’s awesome that they could do that ...
2 posted on
03/15/2011 12:51:20 PM PDT by
Scythian
To: Keltik
3 posted on
03/15/2011 12:52:13 PM PDT by
gov_bean_ counter
(I am declaring 2011 the year of ME.)
To: Keltik
I think I did hear something about this once but the pictures are cool.
5 posted on
03/15/2011 12:52:23 PM PDT by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
To: Keltik
Well over 90% of the “tanks” Bill Clinton’s forces destroyed in Serbia were in fact very expensive balloons. Many of them also featured small heaters to produce engine thermal signatures.
Some experts think the number is much closer to 100% than 90%.
6 posted on
03/15/2011 12:52:52 PM PDT by
gaijin
To: Keltik
Amazing. I have never seen those photos before.
7 posted on
03/15/2011 12:53:28 PM PDT by
Inyo-Mono
(Had God not driven man from the Garden of Eden the Sierra Club surely would have.)
To: Keltik
8 posted on
03/15/2011 12:55:08 PM PDT by
svcw
(Non forgiveness is like holding a hot coal thinking the other person will be blistered)
To: Keltik
This was also done at the Douglas Aircraft plant in Santa Monica (now Santa Monica Airport.)
9 posted on
03/15/2011 12:57:32 PM PDT by
La Enchiladita
(Remember, Reflect, Renew: 2011, 10 years since 9/11. Never Forget.)
To: Keltik
You’ll notice that you can’t see how they hid the runway. Runways are very hard to hide.
To: Keltik
have never seen these pictures or knew that we had gone this far to protect ourselves. What, do you live under a rock?
11 posted on
03/15/2011 12:58:35 PM PDT by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: Keltik
Oh wait...wrong side...
12 posted on
03/15/2011 1:00:37 PM PDT by
BenLurkin
(This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both)
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17 posted on
03/15/2011 1:04:21 PM PDT by
Spruce
To: Keltik
That must have been expensive. I wonder if any axis pilot ever glanced over this. And I wonder if google earth would reveal what really was there.
18 posted on
03/15/2011 1:04:21 PM PDT by
st.eqed
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19 posted on
03/15/2011 1:05:28 PM PDT by
Envisioning
( Call me a racist................, one more time......................)
To: Keltik
June 1942. Lockheed Vega aircraft plant at Burbank, California.
20 posted on
03/15/2011 1:08:12 PM PDT by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
To: Keltik
In North Africa a whole harbor was moved to confuse the German airmen and the Suez Canal “hidden”. Not so easy today but deception is a powerful weapon still.
22 posted on
03/15/2011 1:08:55 PM PDT by
count-your-change
(You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: Keltik
I believe Boeing did the same. Germany was also very prolific at these disguises. Very neat pictures BTW.
23 posted on
03/15/2011 1:09:09 PM PDT by
eyedigress
((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
To: Keltik
As a kid growing up in southern California "Ralph Story's LA" was a must watch at our house. I distictly recall his doing a segmant on this, though fuzzy on details, I did think it was pretty cool.
24 posted on
03/15/2011 1:13:18 PM PDT by
Michael.SF.
(Going to Charlotte for the barbecue is like going to Minneapolis for the gumbo - John Reed)
To: Keltik
I was alive then and remember this. In addition, the Grand Central Airport, in Glendale, was lengthened and camouflaged. P-38's were parked ready to go from Grand Central. For those who do not know, Grand Central is the airport from which Will Rogers and Wiley Post left on their fatal journey. The airport is gone now with only the tower left as a decaying reminder. Grand Central was about a mile or two south of Lockheed as the crow flies.
27 posted on
03/15/2011 1:23:18 PM PDT by
AEMILIUS PAULUS
(It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: Keltik
Another little known fact: At the end of the runway, just off the plant grounds, there is a little cemetery. It was dedicated to pioneers of aviation. It is named Valhalla, the place where dead Viking heroes were said to go.
As a kid, I was told that it holds the remains of some of the WWII pilots killed while flying to & from the Lockheed Airfield. It is also the final resting place of many from the Hollywood movie industry, including Laurel & Hardy. I grew up just a few blocks from there.
41 posted on
03/15/2011 3:57:52 PM PDT by
oneolcop
(Lead, Follow or Get the Hell Out of the Way!)
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