Aerostars click

 

I doubt that my neighbors would enjoy me putting one of those Scud ones in my back yard.

 

This idea is not new. I watched on the Discover or Military channel one night where England or Germany (not sure which) had a few hundred airplane decoys all lined up in pretty rows during WWII. They were made of cheap thin sheets of wood. Their cover was blown (so to speak) when a windstorm came through.

 

Hey, maybe fords legal staff will go after them... "pepboys" attacked ford when they wanted to release a car named the Futura...pepboys won in court.
(not sure what it ended up being called)

 

I used to work on remote sensing systems designed specifically to differentiate the decoys from the real mccoys. We were quite effective.

I'm not sure why Pep Boys would have an issue with the name Futura. Do they have a product by that name? Ford used the name for a concept car they built in 1954, and again in the late 70's/early 80's for a special model of the Fairmont.

 

Yes, it is a line of auto tires.

And the Ford Fusion was originally suppose to be called the Futura.

 

I'll bet Ford is kicking themselves hrder than ever for not copywriting the "Futura" name.

I did a quick search of the 1954 Futura, and found that it was a one-off Lincoln concept car that was eventually turned into the first Batmobile by George Barris.