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A Portrait of Life
Aviation has acknowledged many individuals who have marked the passage of time and technology to get aviation to where it is ...
Painting on planes: Stunning sketches of airplane life. What did you do on your last plane journey? Fall asleep, watch a movie, draft some emails?
The paint on a Boeing 747 weighs about 1200 lbs. Even if the only purpose of paint on airplanes was for appearance, which it is certainly not, this would equate to a weight savings of about 1000 lbs.