Day 44
Post#44 Feb 24, 2020 Mon 23:00 PM
Why all airplanes are painted white?
Painting an Airbus airplane needs 1100kgs of paint, and just printing the logo needs around 500kgs of paint. So, if no paint is used, the plane can carry 5 more passenger’s weight with same structure.
So question is why does an airline company paints the airline, when it is increasing the operating cost.
Even the airline company used to think so earlier, and they didn’t use to paint their flights. But because of bad weather, and exposure of direct metal to atmosphere used to degrade the surface, which needed to be polished.
The polishing cost used to come higher than painting cost. So they started painting it white, after putting a green anti-corrosive paint.
White paints helps in detecting any dent or issue in flight, just by a simple pre-flight inspection, and also helps in getting better resale value. Not only this, it helps in identifying plane during rescue operation due to its high reflectivity. It also maintains temperature, because of high reflectivity.