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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 does the radar dome on the E-3 have a white stripe down the middle?
The white strip is the metallic part which houses the electronics and serves as support structure for the antenna. The black part is basically a composite (fiberglass) shell, which covers the antenna. ...
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What are these lines on the nose of a Boeing 737?
I'm no expert on B737 radomes, but I was able to find that these are called Lightning Diversion Strips or Lightning Diverter Strips.
Since radomes are generally built with composites, they do not ...
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Why do Russian Su-30SM fighters have white nose radomes?
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White radomes are common in many applications, this is the logical choice, a white material reflects sun radiations which otherwise introduce electronic noise in the antenna.
Black radomes, ...
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What are these lines on the nose of a Boeing 737?
The lines on the nose radome (radar dome) of airplanes are called segmented lightning diverter strips, and they're made by a few different companies, one of which is Weather Guard Lightning Tech
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Why does the radar dome on the E-3 have a white stripe down the middle?
During aircrew briefings for operations with AWACS, it was stated that aircraft in the vicinity of an AWACS aircraft can determine that the radar is operational if the dome is rotating, easily seen ...
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Why is the nose cone of the Su-34 white?
It is all part of the camouflage.
The blue parts on the bottom make the aircraft hard to identify from below against a blue-background (sky). The dark parts on the top make it difficult to identify ...
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Why is the nose cone of the Su-34 white?
They're white because that's the cove of the radar dome(Radome) by being white, they reflect em interference and thermal suns rays to keep radar clutter to a minimum
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