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2 unusual facts about Camouflage


Disguise

Camouflage is a type of disguise for people, animals and objects.

Volker Hinkel

He also appeared as a guest star on the albums "Sensor" (2003) and "Relocated" (2006) by Camouflage.


2012 Melbourne Storm season

For the Round 12 clash with the Brisbane Broncos They wore a special silver V with purple camouflage jersey.

65th Aggressor Squadron

The 65th AGRS is assigned 24 F-15 aircraft, painted in camouflage schemes identical to those observed on Russian-manufactured Su-27 Flanker fighters and operates in conjunction with the 64th Aggressor Squadron, which performs a similar task using F-16s.

Abbott Handerson Thayer

This is not entirely unreasonable, because, while he did not invent camouflage, he was undoubtedly one of the first to write about certain aspects of it, including disruptive camouflage to break up an object's outlines, of masquerade, as when a butterfly mimics a leaf (though here he was anticipated by Bates, Wallace, and Poulton), and especially of countershading.

Abraham Rattner

He was sent to France, where he was "promoted to sergeant, put in charge of camouflage research, and served at the front in the Second Battle of the Marne, Château-Thierry, Belleau Wood, and on the Hindenberg Line. He received a severe back wound which troubled him for the rest of his life" (Culkin 1980).

Active camouflage

In 2003 researchers at the University of Tokyo under Susumu Tachi created a prototype active camouflage system in which a video camera images the background and displays it on a cloth using an external projector.

After Burner Climax

These paint jobs consist of a "Standard" scheme, "Camouflage" scheme, "Special" scheme, and "Low Visibility" scheme.

Armstrong Whitworth Ensign

Eleven aircraft were in service at the outbreak of the Second World War, with a 12th following soon after, and all were withdrawn in October 1939; they were to be camouflaged before flying a new route from Heston Aerodrome to Le Bourget Airport, Paris.

Chris Grainger

Buckra Camouflage Playboys International (IND) (P/E/M) 2007

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Mumia Abu-Jamal

However, Abu-Jamal did not state his version of events for the initial police investigation or later until, almost 20 years afterwards, Arnold Beverly claimed that, "wearing a green (camouflage) army jacket", he had run across the street and shot Daniel Faulkner as part of a contract killing because Faulkner was interfering with graft and payoff to corrupt police.

Daniel Conrad

His father Arthur Conrad, a portrait painter whose work hangs in the U.S. Senate reception room, worked with Everett Warner during World War II in designing camouflage for the US Navy.

Discovery Air Defence Services

Some Alpha Jets retained the Luftwaffe paint schemes but a few have been repainted in desert or northern camouflage.

Douglas DC-5

Japanese forces captured "PK-ADA", subsequently repaired and tested it in Tachikawa and Haneda, later during 1943, operating the DC-5 in camouflage with Japanese Imperial Army Air Force markings as a transport from bases back in the Home Islands.

Eric Jolliffe

During the war he served as a camouflage officer with the RAAF and spent time in Arnhem Land.

F. Burrall Hoffman

During World War I, Hoffman served as Captain with the Corps of Engineers and later directed camouflage operations with the Second Corps, A.E.F. During World War II, Hoffman served overseas as a Lieutenant Commander in the Navy.

Gino Girolamo Fanno

During World War II, he was put under house arrest to avoid being sent to the vacation camps. To further camouflage himself, Fanno converted to Catholicism.

Green fleet

The term arises from the olive green colour of military vehicles for camouflage reasons, although green fleet vehicles could be of any colour (such as vehicles in desert camouflage or red RAF fire engines).

Guerilla Records

The label's distinctive blue camouflage generic sleeve was designed by graphic designer Steve Cook, known for his design and art direction of the British comic 2000 AD.

Jo Mielziner

During World War II, Mielziner worked as a camouflage specialist with the United States Air Force.

Jolyon Jackson

Other recordings on which Jackson featured include Camouflage by Sonny Condell (Mulligan 1977), and Taylormaid by Rosemary Taylor (Id 1977).

Junglist

Ali G, in collaboration with Shane Handley, could be seen as a parody junglist (e.g. dressing in camouflage and listening to loud drum and bass music in his car; M-Beat and General Levy's "Incredible" was played in the Ali G feature film and appearing on its soundtrack), though he could also be treated as a parody of an avid hip hop listener.

Loyd A. Jones

A compromise solution was reached, and on March 25, 1918, architect Harold Van Buskirk was placed in charge of a U.S. Navy camouflage unit, consisting of two major sections: A design section made up of artists, located in Washington D.C., headed by artist Everett L. Warner; and a research section made up largely of scientists, located at the Eastman laboratories in Rochester, New York, under the supervision of Jones (Van Buskirk 1919; Warner 1919).

When the U.S. became involved in World War I, George Eastman offered to the U.S. Navy the expertise of Jones (who served in the U.S. Naval Reserves) and others for the purpose of researching naval camouflage in relation to optics and physics (Ackerman 1930, p. 310).

Lucknam Park

They used Lucknam Park's beech and lime tree lined driveway to park their Spitfires and Hurricanes – the huge trees providing camouflage.

Lynton Lamb

From 1930 he designed book jackets and bindings for the Oxford University Press, with a break for military service during World War II when he designed camouflage and in 1936 he had an exhibition of paintings at the Storran Gallery.

Malmö MFI-9

Von Rosen had the planes painted in camouflage colours and fitted with rockets from Matra, and proceeded with a band of friends to form a squadron called Babies of Biafra to strike at the airfields from which the federal Nigerian Air Force launched their attacks against the civilian population in Biafra.

Matt McCarten

In response to this article, Israel's Ambassador to Australia and non-resident Ambassador to New Zealand, Yuval Rotem, sharply criticized McCarten and accused him of "blunt anti-Israel sentiment which is a camouflage for anti-Semitism".

Mulga dragon

This provides an excellent camouflage on mulga trees, its usual habitat, it is also found beneath mulga leaf litter.

Operation Pike

Using specially modified and unmarked Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra aircraft painted in a special blue camouflage scheme developed by Cotton himself (who led the RAF's Photographic Development Unit or PDU), the Secret Intelligence Service launched the high-altitude reconnaissance flights from RAF Habbaniya, a Royal Air Force station in Iraq.

Pale-throated sloth

Green algae live mutualistically between the microscopic scales on the surface of the guard hairs, giving the sloth a somewhat greenish appearance that serves as camouflage.

Rathmines, New South Wales

The artist Sir William Dobell was at one time responsible for the camouflage of the base.

Remington Model R-25

The R-25 is advertised primarily as a hunting rifle, and as such normally comes painted in Mossy Oak camouflage.

Rob Benvie

Camouflage Nights has remixed artists such as Stars, Every Move a Picture, Pony Da Look, along with scoring numerous film and television projects.

Robert Dickerson

Inspired by Somerset Maugham's novel The Moon and Sixpence he spent the time painting island children using tent canvas and camouflage paint.

Rufe Persful

Once he was shifted to the Alcatraz prison, his heinous crime in Tucker, Arkansas of murdering a female prisoner who was pregnant, to camouflage rape, was also exposed.

Scranton Lace Company

During the 1940s, the company teamed up with subsidiaries such as Victory Parachutes, Inc. and Sweeney Bros. to manufacture parachutes and camouflage netting.

Scyllaea pelagica

It spends its life among sargasso weed (Sargassum spp.) floating in tropical seas where it is well camouflaged.

Sherry Edmundson Fry

He showed it to a friend, New Hampshire painter Barry Faulkner, who was a cousin of Abbott Handerson Thayer (the so-called "father of camouflage"), and a former student of the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens.

Tegmen

In many insects they also are important in camouflage and in displays, especially defensive display, where the tegmina are drab, but cover aposematic displays that that are startling when suddenly uncovered.

Telo mimetico

In 1966 and -67, the Italian artist Alighiero Boetti stretched sections of the fabric on frames under the title "Mimetico" (camouflage) as art of an exhibition on the Arte Povera art movement.

Type 07

Enlisted and junior commanding personnel also receive a set of wicking T-shirt (either in green or camouflage) and shorts for physical fitness training in summer.

Vietnamese Rangers

The Rangers wore all the uniforms that the ARVN wore, however they were known for their tightly tailored OG-107's and camouflage uniforms.

World War II ship camouflage measures of the United States Navy

Tropic Green system: Through 1942 the Camouflage Section had issued no instructions for landing craft, PT boats, Tank Landing Ships (LSTs) and other vessels expected to operate close inshore in Pacific jungle conditions, so individual commands resorted to overall green, or ad-hoc camouflage patterns in whatever green or brown paints could be obtained.


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