When the Burbank Airport was top secret
At the Bob Hope Airport, as you go up the stairs to the meeting room for the airport authority, there is a photo of the camouflage netting that used to cover the airport during World War II (at least the photo was there when I last stopped by more than a year ago.) During World War II, the airport was a Lockheed plant. Eager to keep the plant protected from Japanese aerial bombardments (which never came by the way), the government had it camouflaged so that it didn't look like an airplane plant from the air. Well, the folks at www.newlaunches.com have just posted some killer photos of how the Lockheed plant looked from the air. Apparently, they tried to make it look like a rural subdivision, which is what you can see in the photo above. Check out the rest of the photos here.