1. Painting the A380 is in Hamburg, where it is divided into two stages: first, in a special hangar paint keel. By the way, this is well before you begin final assembly of the aircraft, so that the customer can see at what stage is the production of his ship.
2. Dimensions are keel 12H14, 6 meters, and in its painting can take up to 3-4 days.
3. Next keel sent to Toulouse, where the aircraft is assembled, then finished airliner flies to Germany to complete the spraying process.
4. Experts (and their hangar employs 600 people in three shifts) are preparing for the preparatory work on cleaning and polishing surfaces.
5. The application of the basic coverage. Spray paint is with automatic telescopic platforms, these eight pieces in the hangar.
6. At this stage, both can work up to 24 people, it takes about an hour to apply one coat of paint on the fuselage. In general, most spraying, then, that in our usual understanding is painting, it takes only 10% of the time it spends in a spray plane hangar.
7. Paint sprayed from special electric guns, which allow it to apply evenly to the entire surface
8. With film work mask the areas that do not need to paint or to paint a different color. This can be a company logo, name, distinctive characters, and after that piece of work is by staining of these elements.
9. By the way, this work consumes most time of spraying process.
10. Removing the masking film
The plane is ready!
11. On average, for the painting of one A380 takes 14 to 20 days and consumed 600 kg of paint, depending on the complexity of airline liveries. It is hard to imagine, but the thickness of paint is only 0.15 mm.
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