To: cpdiii
To paint an entire airplane the size of a 787 would add a few thousand pounds to the airframe. That is expensive. They're going to paint every inch of the 787 fuselage no matter what. Unless they want a black aircraft.
39 posted on
03/06/2006 7:31:26 AM PST by
Yo-Yo
(USAF, TAC, 12th AF, 366 TFW, 366 MG, 366 CRS, Mtn Home AFB, 1978-81)
To: Yo-Yo
"They're going to paint every inch of the 787 fuselage no matter what. Unless they want a black aircraft."
You are right. I was thinking about an aluminium skin.
Senility is catching up with me.
45 posted on
03/06/2006 10:03:47 AM PST by
cpdiii
(roughneck (oil field trash and proud of it), geologist, pilot, pharmacist, full time iconoclast)
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