Why are airplanes white?

Morgans wrote:
"Dudley Henriques" wrote
Damn Bertie, I must be getting old but I can't make the connection.
I know I'm going to be sorry I said this, but give me another hint
:-)

You will be!

Think of something that requires string for removal.

See!

I'm not-a-gonna-signa-my name, ona-dis-one-a!

/8~))



I got it. I got it!!! Beat you by 2 seconds :-)

--
Dudley Henriques

Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote in
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They ran them through a training program at New Castle Delaware. Most of
them that I met were young and naive but eager to play stew and make the
bucks.
The gal I'm talking about was a bit older, gorgeous, and savvy as hell.
She had a mouth like an iron worker and took no prisoners up front. A
lot of the gang couldn't stand her but I liked her. We always got along.



Hmm, might have met her. I went up to the "bar" to get another drink,
hopefully for free and asked if I might have another whatever it was I was
drinking and was told by the stew, sitting in her seat with her shoes off
and feet up against the bulkead while she did her nals "yeh, inda drawah,
get it yerself, two bucks"

Bertie

You might have at that! Sounds exactly like Carol to me. :-)

--
Dudley Henriques

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Braniff's only 747 was orange and nicknamed "the Great
Pumpkin"


Bertie
I'll bet when the bids came out from the front office for the
left
seat job on that bird, at least somebody trying for the seat
MUST
have been tempted to change his name to "Charlie Brown" :-))

groan!


bertie
Hey...ya have to admit......"Charlie Brown and the Great Pumpkin
are
arriving at gate 6" kind of has a certain "ring" to it :-))

I don't think the general public called it that, just the
employees.
I'd hate to have a name that mathced this airplanes nickname,
though.
http://www.historyofaircargo.com/i-T...0B4F.-TNT.html


Bertie
:-))

All you need is a bit of string to make the illusion complete.


Bertie
Damn Bertie, I must be getting old but I can't make the connection.
I know I'm going to be sorry I said this, but give me another hint
:-)


Oh sorry, thought you got it.

Kinda sorry I started this now!

OK, the string goes on the tail.


Bertie


I'm going to take a wild guess (knowing you like I do :-))) and take a
shot that this thing just might look like a used Tampon???????
:-))


Hey, i didn't invent the tag! I'm just passing it along.


Bertie

"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
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I think that might be it. I remember my wife telling me that if I bought a
shirt like that she wouldn't go out with me :-) Those things were so loud
you needed ear muffs to look at them :-)

So THAT'S what happened to your hearing?

On Nov 3, 5:51 pm, Ron Wanttaja wrote:

Metal surfaces
want to be sprayed, and white paint is probably easier to monitor for
consistency during the process (spotting thin areas, detecting sags, etc.).
Ron Wanttaja

I've painted several airplanes and vehicles and boats, and I
can tell you that white is harder to apply than darker colors. In a
paint booth, white reflects so much light that shadows disappear and
it gets easy to apply too much paint. A painter needs to be able to
see that the paint is beginning to flow out, and there's a narrow
range of proper paint thickness between orange peel and sagging. White
just overwhelms my eyes and makes it harder to judge.
I live in a place that has snow much of the year, and in the
mountains near here there's snow in some places year-round. Over the
years too many white airplanes have disappeared and been found long
after, when the snow's gone. I want a color that will stand out as
much as possible; airplanes are tiny things and anything that will
catch SAR's eyes helps. Of course, further snow will cover that, too.
Someone else said yellow was the only color for an airplane. I
agree. My Jodel is bright yellow. I just don't dare crash in a canola
field in June.

Dan

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Airbus writes:

I love the authoritative tone with which you blatantly contradict yourself.

High-speed = subsonic but fast, e.g., 737
Very high-speed = supersonic, e.g., SR-71

There's a big difference in aerodynamic heating between the two. If
commercial airliners had more of a need to radiate than to reflect, they'd
already be painted black.





You may not be good for very much, but you are good for a laugh from time to
time!!!

You should know there are more elegant ways to back-pedal when you realize you
have said something stupid in public.

Clearly, for one with as much false pretense at stake as yourself, the
time-honored "That's really what I meant to say . . ." will not do.

You may get substantial mileage, however, out of a more condescending formula :
"You have correctly paraphrased my current thinking on the subject" to which
you could add a patronizing accolade - "and you have expressed it more clearly
than I could have myself . . ." however only in the case where context makes it
clear you do not consider this to be true . . .

Still laughing!!!

"Matt W. Barrow" wrote

So THAT'S what happened to your hearing?

What?

--
Jim in NC;-)

It will take a woman to remind you gentlemen that airplanes are mostly
white because white is the color used to symbolize the virtue of
purity (no strings attached).

On another minor point, only a fraction of the solar energy is in the
visible wavelengths, so when you're talking about the effect of
visible colors (yellow, orange, and the like) our eyes are not doing a
good job about telling us about their optical characteristics in the
near infrared, and that's where a lot of the solar thermal energy is.
Many pigments are fairly transparant in the near infrared, so the
substrate characteristics (the metal or fiberglass the 'paint' is on)
become important. An example of this would be a conventional mirror,
where the glass is transparant, the visible light goes thru it, but
reflects from the silver coating on the inside surface of the glass.
On the other hand, glass absorbs some infra red wavelengths, so a
conventional mirror does not do well at reflecting that light. (By
conventional mirrors I mean those that have their coatings on the rear
surface of the glass of course: front surface coated mirrors are
available too.)

Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote in news:-
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Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote in
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Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote in
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Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote in
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Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote in
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Bertie the Bunyip wrote:

Braniff's only 747 was orange and nicknamed "the Great
Pumpkin"

Bertie
I'll bet when the bids came out from the front office for the
left
seat job on that bird, at least somebody trying for the seat
MUST
have been tempted to change his name to "Charlie Brown" :-))

groan!


bertie
Hey...ya have to admit......"Charlie Brown and the Great Pumpkin
are
arriving at gate 6" kind of has a certain "ring" to it :-))

I don't think the general public called it that, just the
employees.
I'd hate to have a name that mathced this airplanes nickname,
though.
http://www.historyofaircargo.com/i-T...0B4F.-TNT.html


Bertie
:-))

All you need is a bit of string to make the illusion complete.


Bertie
Damn Bertie, I must be getting old but I can't make the connection.
I know I'm going to be sorry I said this, but give me another hint
:-)

Oh sorry, thought you got it.

Kinda sorry I started this now!

OK, the string goes on the tail.


Bertie

I'm going to take a wild guess (knowing you like I do :-))) and take a
shot that this thing just might look like a used Tampon???????
:-))


Hey, i didn't invent the tag! I'm just passing it along.


Bertie


:-))

--
Dudley Henriques

Tina writes:

... our eyes are not doing a good job about telling us about
their optical characteristics in the near infrared, and that's
where a lot of the solar thermal energy is.

We can see near infrared, which is why it's called _near_ infrared.