Non-motoring > Aircraft internal fuselage. Miscellaneous
Thread Author: R.P. Replies: 15
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 Sat 21 Jul 12 18:06 
 Aircraft internal fuselage. - R.P.


Watched that excellent programme on servicing a Boeing 747.....a question arises. Why are the internal structures of the frames and fuselage invariably painted green ?
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 Sat 21 Jul 12 18:21 
 Aircraft internal fuselage. - devonite
Green is supposed to be relaxing! and if you are going to be spending a lot of time scrutinizing it, its easier on the eyes! - remember the olde "green-screen" feature a lot of office monitors used to have? - Twas supposed to have been less eye-straining for the secretaries

Probably - maybe!
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 Sat 21 Jul 12 18:22 
 Aircraft internal fuselage. - Zero
Cos thats the colour of the primer. - Zinc Chromate. Anti corrosion.
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 Sat 21 Jul 12 18:23 
 Aircraft internal fuselage. - R.P.
Thanks - I knew someone would know !! I rather like the relaxing theory....
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 Sat 21 Jul 12 18:25 
 Aircraft internal fuselage. - devonite
Yes! so did I ! - till up popped old Zinc - Chromathingy!
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 Sat 21 Jul 12 18:28 
 Aircraft internal fuselage. - R.P.
I thought it might have been something to make cracks easier to see but there you are...far more mundane.
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 Sat 21 Jul 12 18:47 
 Aircraft internal fuselage. - mikeyb
As Zero says, its the primer. Comes in various shades to, but I've no idea why.

We call them "Green Aircraft" before they have had the final paint job
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 Sat 21 Jul 12 19:54 
 Aircraft internal fuselage. - rtj70
>> Thanks - I knew someone would know !! I rather like the relaxing theory....

The inside of operating theatres are apparently green for that reason. I've only been in one when awake and it was green - and that's when the surgeon told me why.
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 Sat 21 Jul 12 20:18 
 Aircraft internal fuselage. - Armel Coussine
Do surgeons and theatre staff wear green for the same reason?

Slightly strange experience recovering consciousness feeling very carp indeed and wondering where you are, with four or five green-clad total strangers in green masks, with tasteful splashes of blood here and there, staring down at you in a ring.

They make friends by giving you morphine and oxygen and wheeling you out to a place where people are dressed in other colours, with their reassuring smiles exposed. You aren't in an anteroom to heaven or hell after all. Alhamdulillah!
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 Sat 21 Jul 12 22:38 
 Aircraft internal fuselage. - Dulwich Estate
The scariest part of the programme was the part when they showed the rippled thin metal skin of the fuselage. It's all right though as the pressure difference in flight causes the ripples to pop out and the skin becomes smooth.

Gulp...
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 Sat 21 Jul 12 22:42 
 Aircraft internal fuselage. - R.P.
What struck me, being South Wales and all that, that BA are happy to have their jets serviced by 25 Uncle Bryns !
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 Sun 22 Jul 12 09:09 
 Aircraft internal fuselage. - Zero
>> What struck me, being South Wales and all that, that BA are happy to have
>> their jets serviced by 25 Uncle Bryns !

Been doing major overhauls down there for years, 40 years at least, to my knowledge. I suppose they might just have got it right by now.
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 Sun 22 Jul 12 10:04 
 Aircraft internal fuselage. - R.P.
I know Zero - and lots of them used to work in RAF St Athan. Just struck me as funny - mind you my sense of humour has changed a bit.
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 Sat 21 Jul 12 22:54 
 Aircraft internal fuselage. - Rudedog
Well I wear light blue in Theatres, my wife who works in another hospital wears a funny kind of raspberry colour (we used to have green scrubs years ago), I wish our Theatres were green instead of the horrible drab beige I have to look at everyday.
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 Sat 21 Jul 12 23:51 
 Aircraft internal fuselage. - Ted

My workshop is painted light green inside......not for relaxing......I can do that whatever the colour.

I just happened to have half a 5 litre can left over from decorating.

Ted
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 Sun 22 Jul 12 13:34 
 Aircraft internal fuselage. - devonite
All these new posts are Green, (keeps you all calm see) I wonder what fisticuffs would erupt if they changed to pink or purple! ;-)
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