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Old 24th Apr 2022, 17:54
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Cat Techie
 
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Originally Posted by wanna
The tail on the ATR doesn't get removed when painting. Significant scaffolding is needed though. Most likely there wasn't a slot to get painted at the various companies that worked for Eastern. There is a fair lead time at present for slots, probably due to lots of factors not just the number of planes needing to be painted. Also consider that eastern dont really have a uniform colour scheme at present with the current ATRs just using the hybrid eastern / Bristow scheme.

Whilst its nice having a plane painted, the average customer won't notice or care. They will take more notice of the cabin as they spend more time there but even that will only form part of the overall product experience.

No, the tail doesn't get removed. Because its a Vertical and Horizontal Stabiliser in ATA100 speak, The movable surfaces sometimes need to be removed if needing a change of colour. I have done quite a few paint inputs as the B1 engineer on site with complete and partial repaints of certain EJRs. Indeed Air Livery were maxed out in the pandemic, lots of leased aeroplanes to paint white or the continued rebranding of German Wings aeroplanes. Eastern still had J41s in the Purple Flybe scheme flying until recently.
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