Originally Posted by
ATC Watcher
What I find surprising on the TUI photo are the uneven rivets on the left, and on the foreground. The aircraft cannot the that old ...Is this normal ?
I don't know if it is normal, but it may be related to the paint issue. With the amount of flex in the 787 wing, you need a lot of elasticity in the paint layer and perhaps the rivets are places where bits of paint start flaking off first.