Camouflaged and deceptive distorted vehicle and method of assembling such vehicles

Claim 1

A camouflaged and deceptive distorted vehicle comprising: (a) a top and bottom surface, (b) said surfaces having two pairs of coordinate sections including a first fore and aft coordinate sections pair extending from adjacent the front edge of said vehicle to adjacent the rear edge of said vehicle and a second left and right coordinate sections, pair, extending from adjacent the one side edge of said vehicle to adjacent the opposite side edge of said vehicle, (c) at least one of said two pairs of coordinate sections of said top surface being colored, and (d) said color on said at least one of said two pairs of coordinate sections at said top surface graduating from dark to light beginning dark adjacent one edge on one section and ending light on the other adjacent edge of said one section.

Claim 52

A method of camouflaging aircraft including the steps of: (a) determining the longitudinal axis of said vehicle and determining on said axis on said aircraft a pivot point midway between an imaginary line drawn from the tip of one trailing edge of one wing surface to the opposite tip of the trailing edge of said opposite wing surface, (b) marking off a first ground line and placing said aircraft on said first marked off ground line so that said longitudinal axis and said marked off ground line are spaced one above the other, (c) swinging said aircraft about said point as a pivot while holding said pivot point directly above said marked off ground line and swinging through an arc of up to about 45° from the forward direction of said aircraft when on said marked off ground line, (d) marking off a pair of parallel ground lines parallel to said first marked off ground line with one of said marked off parallel ground lines passing through an imaginary point determined by the normal passing through the tip of the trailing edge of one wing and the ground and the other of said marked off parallel ground lines passing through an imaginary point determined by the normal passing through the tip of the trailing edge of the other wing and the ground, and (e) marking off between said first marked off ground line and said marked off parallel ground lines a series of second parallel lines extending fore and aft of said aircraft indicating the percent of change from a dark color Munsell Value to a light color Munsell Value with one marked off parallel ground line indicating 100% of the darkest Munsell Color Value to be applied and the other marked off parallel ground line indicating 100% of the lightest Munsell Color Value to be applied with the first marked off ground line indicating a color variation of 50% between the maximum dark and maximum light Munsell Color Values to be applied to said aircraft, (f) applying paint to said aircraft by graduating according to the marked off ground lines and the percent between 100 as the darkest Munsell Color Value and 0 as the lightest Munsell Color Value with minimum values between dark and light of about 3 consecutive Munsell Values.

Claim 53

A method of camouflaging aircraft including the steps of: (a) determining the longitudinal axis of said vehicle and determining on said axis on said aircraft a pivot point midway between an imaginary line drawn from the tip of one trailing edge of one wing surface to the opposite tip of the trailing edge of said opposite wing surface, (b) marking off a first ground line and placing said aircraft on said first marked off ground line so that said longitudinal axis and said marked off ground line are spaced one above the other, (c) swinging said aircraft about said point as a pivot while holding said pivot point directly above said marked off ground line and swinging through an arc of up to about 45° from the forward direction of said aircraft when on said marked off ground line, (d) marking off a pair of parallel ground lines parallel to said first marked off ground line with one of said marked off parallel ground lines passing through an imaginary point determined by the normal passing through the tip of the trailing edge of one wing and the ground and the other of said marked off parallel ground lines passing through an imaginary point determined by the normal passing through the tip of the trailing edge of the other wing and the ground, and (e) marking off between said first marked off ground line and said marked off parallel ground lines a series of second parallel lines extending fore and aft of said aircraft indicating the percent of change from a dark color Munsell Value to a light color Munsell Value with one marked off parallel ground line indicating 100% of the darkest Munsell Color Value to be applied and the other marked off parallel ground line indicating 100% of the lightest Munsell Color Value to be applied with the first marked off ground line indicating a color variation of 50% between the maximum dark and maximum light Munsell Color Values to be applied to said aircraft, (f) applying paint to said aircraft by graduating according to the marked off ground lines and the percent between 100 as the darkest Munsell Color Value and 0 as the lightest Munsell Color Value with minimum values between dark and light of about 3 consecutive Munsell Values.

Claim 58

The method of camouflaging an aircraft including the steps of: (a) forming a grid on the ground of parallel lines of a width not exceeding the distance between the tip of the trailing edge of one wing to the tip of the trailing edge of the other wing, (b) placing said aircraft in said grid so that trailing wing tips of said wing lie on the outer lines of said grid, (c) marking said aircraft with grid lines corresponding to said ground grid lines and (d) painting said aircraft graduating from dark to light from the outermost line of one side of said grid to the outermost line of the other side of said grid.

Claim 59

The method of camouflaging an aircraft including the steps of: (a) forming a grid on the ground of parallel lines of a width not exceeding the distance between the tip of the trailing edge of one wing to the tip of the trailing edge of the other wing, (b) placing said aircraft in said grid so that trailing wing tips of said wing lie on the outer lines of said grid, (c) marking said aircraft with grid lines corresponding to said ground grid lines and (d) painting said aircraft graduating from dark to light from the outermost line of one side of said grid to the outermost line of the other side of said grid.

Claim 65

The method of camouflaging and deceptively distorting a plurality of aircraft in assembled cooperative relation which includes the steps of: (a) painting a plurality of aircraft with a substantially similar pattern design on top and bottom surfaces, and (b) painting at least one aircraft of said plurality with said similar pattern reversed with respect to at least one of said top and bottom surfaces from at least one of said other aircraft of said plurality of aircraft (c) whereby when said at least one aircraft is rolled 180° with respect to said at least one of said other aircraft, an observer becomes confused for a period of time trying to decide whether he is observing the top or bottom of the rolled aircraft.

Claim 66

The method of camouflaging and deceptively distorting a plurality of aircraft in assembled cooperative relation which includes the steps of: (a) painting a plurality of aircraft with a substantially similar pattern design on top and bottom surfaces, and (b) painting at least one aircraft of said plurality with said similar pattern reversed with respect to at least one of said top and bottom surfaces from at least one of said other aircraft of said plurality of aircraft (c) whereby when said at least one aircraft is rolled 180° with respect to said at least one of said other aircraft, an observer becomes confused for a period of time trying to decide whether he is observing the top or bottom of the rolled aircraft.