Boeing flight deck colors?
 

Hi,

why has the 787 a grey flight deck (like the 737), but the 747-8/777 a brown one?

Hold on I'll ask SIRI to help on my 4s, nope sorry no answer.

Dunno, but my vote is grey.

The same reason TVs change colour, used to be black, then they were majority silver when flat screened first came about. Now it's cool for them to be black again. Fashion. (not a serious answer)

Now someone highly brained will probably shoot me down on this but it used to be said the colo(u)r was Honeywell Brown and reflected the prime electronics kit contractor on the airframe.

On the other hand I may well just be raving.

Rob

Don't know the answer, but have always enjoyed the suicide grey vs poo brown vs soviet blue debate.

Rumour has it...
 

Brown twas just a fad cooked up by the marketing gurus with green on their little minds. Wouldn't be a bit surprised if Master Tower's Honeywell connection has some true blue truth to it as well.

The Dreamliner was the first Boeing aircraft where product designers had their saying. This showed in the form, shape (what happened to the "round wings"?), the windshields and the livery.

I guess some designers also told them finally that brown isn't really an over-desired colour...

Dani

Flown two gray models and three brown models. I'd vote for brown.

misd your calling, home design... Sorry could not help myself, despite it's relation to the colour of my waste it is a calm and relaxing colour. Grey is more clinical, rigid.

After 10years of operations they seem to take on the following hue
-dirty, with added :uhoh:

Re ‘Honeywell Brown’. Wasn’t this the colour for other avionics vendor; Honeywell used grey until they had the first big Boeing order.
Our manufacturing organisation referred to the colour as ‘Elephants Breath Brown’, but then we were biased.

grounded27 - I might be biased because the gray was on the n/b's and the brown was on the w/b's. :ok:

As far as I remember the 757 was the first to have a brown flight deck. The previous jet aircraft (707, 727, 737 and 747-100, -200 and -300) were all grey. I have no idea why Boeing changed the colour. But I preferred grey.

Beige
 

"Beige. I think we should paint the ceiling beige."

I think someone planted an idea in some Boeing exec's head.:)

It helped with transition training from -200 and allowed for a common type rating on Classics & NG's. That, plus like all the zillions of common switches still in boxes at Seattle, they had sheds load of grey paint left over from B707/727/732. Waste not want not.

The Brown on the B757/767/777 looks great.

what i don't understand are the variances in colour amongst T7 cockpits - eg with EK, some are the disgusting beige whilst others are a darker brown, and Cathay have an almost grey T7 cockpit on some models but brown on others. Is it to do with what variant it is (say 77L, 77W etc) or the age of the plane or airline preference or what???????

scanman24

Having 7K hours in a 777 flight deck I'm about to paint my aircraft interior Boeing Brown BAC 8328. As some suggest this does not translate to RAL 1011 as I've tried that. So now I'm going to order the real thing from Sherwin Williams Jetflex. My only question being that I haven't flown the 777 in over two years is finish.
is it Semi gloss, Satin or Flat? The BAC 8328 Jetflex H99NY2 indicates semigloss but I recall it was more flat and I can get it mixed in either semigloss or flat.
Thnaks

the Boeing Brown really helps with coffee orders though! how much milk one wants can be determined with parts of the flightdeck. Like a Delux paint strip