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- In article <airliners.1993.64@ohare.Chicago.COM> pab@po.CWRU.Edu (Pete Babic) writes:
- > ...
- >Why would a manufacturer insist on paint? Is it because of corrosion? If so,
- >does the quality of the metal differ from aircraft that may be left bare?
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- In Airbus's case, it's so their planes will look better. In a story
- that appeared when American placed the A300 order, _Aviation_Week_
- explained that aluminum fuselage panels tend to come in slightly
- different colors. If you want your new plane to wear as little paint
- as possible, you tell Douglas or Boeing and they make sure all the
- fuselage panels for your plane match. Airbus didn't want to do this,
- so American agreed to take the planes painted. Curiously, the color
- used was ``Boeing Gray''.
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- Ted Rodriguez-Bell
- ted@ssl.berkeley.edu
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