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Why doesn't this 767 nose paint line up with the rest of the paint?
It has a nose radome from another aircraft installed. The aircraft that donated the radome was painted with older TUI livery, where the blue/white border is straight, and in a slightly different place....
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Why are stealth aircraft not sky blue?
Because they are rarely tracked by eyeball. Any eyeball guided missile is short range enough to be defeated by altitude. Or if they are low enough, they aren't around long enough for the eye to ...
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Why are stealth aircraft not sky blue?
The sky in most of the world, most of the time, isn't blue. It's various shades of grey. A blue aircraft would stick out like a sore thumb against grey skies. This was found out already during WW2 ...
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How is camouflage paint applied?
Unlike airliners, military aircraft are NOT exact. This has a hand in foiling adversarial pattern recognition.
5th Gen fighter, F-22
This from www.military.com
This from https://theaviationgeekclub....
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Why are stealth aircraft not sky blue?
Coloring of military planes changes, because, and when, typical strategy of use changes.
The first wide used stealth plane, F-117 was colored just black, because it was built only for top secret night ...
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Why are stealth aircraft not sky blue?
One other thing to keep in mind is that the bottom of an aircraft is by definition in the "shade" most of the time, that is, the side facing the most away from the sun during most of the ...
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Why are stealth aircraft not sky blue?
I have to say that the newer. Last maybe 5-6 years the flight check aircraft have been painted sky blue top and bottom. As I understand it they were used to check flight procedures in Afghanistan and ...
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Are all planes painted white first?
Not always. This video (screenshot below) shows an ex-US-Airways A319 being redecorated in the American fashion. While the blue and red paint for the tail detailing is indeed applied on top of a ...
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