How to make the successful transition from a painted to a polished aluminum aircraft fleet
How to make the successful transition from a painted to a polished aluminum aircraft fleet
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Environmental regulations are tightening worker exposure limits and disposal options for airlines who chemically strip and repaint their fleets. An alternative is to operate a polished aluminum aircraft fleet. The authors present an explanation of the grades of alclad aluminum fuselage skins used by commercial aircraft manufacturers and offer instructions on how to polish the unpainted alclad aluminum in order to operate the aircraft in the polished look. All fuselages on aircraft built by Boeing, Douglas, Lockheed, and the new EMBRAER Brasilia, were assembled using premium grade polished alclad aluminum. As a result, painted versions of aircraft built by the airframers have the capability to be stripped, polished and put in services as a polished aluminum aircraft.
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How to make the successful transition from a painted to a polished aluminum aircraft fleet
Wie man mit Erfolg von einer angestrichenen zu einer Flugzeugflotte aus poliertem Aluminium kommt
SAE-Papers ; Apr ; 1-8
1988
8 Seiten, 19 Bilder, 4 Quellen
Conference paper
English
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