How to hide an airplane factory

October 6th, 2007

During the Second World War, the British moved production of war machine parts to awesomely-named “shadow factories“, to protect them from enemy bombers. The Americans, being American, simply decided to cover theirs in camouflage. Lots of camouflage. The result is surprisingly effective:

Factory, camouflaged

Via ThinkorThwim.

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