Boeing made a video of the 737 "Florida One" being built and painted. Pretty neat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKnsyYbfC60

 

Sweet! nice find!

 

Nice. Most people have on idea what it takes to build a plane of that magnitude.

 

Neat fact: the paint on that plane (primer, acrylic, and clear) take up about 700 lbs.

 

Cool! Can you get that in a kit?

 

Yes... you can pick it up at any local hobby shop of your choice.

(I wish!)

Neat find though.

 

I think that is a pretty conservative number too! A complex paint job like Florida one and others by southwest weigh a bunch more. If you re-paint an airplane you have to have the aircraft re-certified. Imagine what the paint job on a 747 or A380 weigh.

 

Thats sick. Good find

 

I don't know about "Recertified" but for smaller planes you certainly do need a new weight and balance to maintain legality. I might strip my plane down here soon, I've been looking at some pretty neat designs for it, maybe give its 45+ year old skin something new to wear

I really like this design, but with blue instead of red as the primary.

 

that looks a lot like the piper my dad used to have. pretty neat.

 

ask him if he wants to come paint mine

 

He passed away ten years ago at the age of 36 during a flight from the bahamas.

 

Thats pretty much what I ment. You need to take it to an A&P and have them 're-certify' the empty weight and such. Might have been the wrong word. I like that paint scheme. I wonder if you took it to an A&P school if they would paint it cheaper than normal?? Keep me updated.

 

Well legally speaking, a pilot can strip and paint an airplane under the FARs as "pilot preventive maintenance" (except balanced control surfaces; ie- rudder, ailerons, etc). And to get the control surfaces painted, you can do them yourself with an A&P watching, and have him sign off on it, kinda like pilot-assisted annuals to save money and learn more about the plane.

My best friend's uncle owns this beauty:



He did the paint himself, so we were thinking to taking the Cherokee to him and have him do it.