Hi folks,
I have a question on painted pax door outlines. It used to be that the painted outline would follow the actual door outline and would be either on the inside (mostly) or outside edge (sometimes). Here's a typical example of an inside edge outline:
But I have noticed that nowadays there is an inconsistency in how the outline is now applied, especially on the bottom part of the door, where it's painted a small distance from the actual door edge. Examples:
Note that all these are A-330s and that's because I was doing research on them but this is evident on all airliners regardless of manufacturer, and it's not dependent on specific aircraft (evident on both narrow- and wide-bodies), airlines, geographical location, etc. There are even variations within the same airline, KLM for example, seems as aircraft are in for repaint or whatnot, they get the new shorter outlines.
Another weird way of marking the outline that I've noticed is on the 787s, some operators will paint the outline to where the top and sides are on the outside edge but will cross over on the inside edges on the bottom, such as BA and China Southern:
And yet other 787 operators will do the "not all the way to the bottom" treatment like Hainan
and it seems on the 787 there is a small strip on the top that does not get painted and the painted outline goes stop just below it resulting in a seemingly taller outline on top: See above and these:
Does anyone have any idea on this inconsistency of not painting the door outlines all the way to the bottom or how the 787 ones are done?
Thanks and Cheers,
Christos
BHM
I have a question on painted pax door outlines. It used to be that the painted outline would follow the actual door outline and would be either on the inside (mostly) or outside edge (sometimes). Here's a typical example of an inside edge outline:
But I have noticed that nowadays there is an inconsistency in how the outline is now applied, especially on the bottom part of the door, where it's painted a small distance from the actual door edge. Examples:
Note that all these are A-330s and that's because I was doing research on them but this is evident on all airliners regardless of manufacturer, and it's not dependent on specific aircraft (evident on both narrow- and wide-bodies), airlines, geographical location, etc. There are even variations within the same airline, KLM for example, seems as aircraft are in for repaint or whatnot, they get the new shorter outlines.
Another weird way of marking the outline that I've noticed is on the 787s, some operators will paint the outline to where the top and sides are on the outside edge but will cross over on the inside edges on the bottom, such as BA and China Southern:
And yet other 787 operators will do the "not all the way to the bottom" treatment like Hainan
and it seems on the 787 there is a small strip on the top that does not get painted and the painted outline goes stop just below it resulting in a seemingly taller outline on top: See above and these:
Does anyone have any idea on this inconsistency of not painting the door outlines all the way to the bottom or how the 787 ones are done?
Thanks and Cheers,
Christos
BHM
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