The painting of the world's largest passenger plane "Airbus A 380" dropped and repainted Movie containing the whole story

The world's largest passenger plane, which is a two-story structure from the front to the back of the aircraft "Airbus A380"It is possible to swallow up to 800 passengers at maximum. It is A380 overwhelmed by its huge size when looking at close-up, but the task of painting that airframe is even greater than that of a normal-size airframe. The state of the work which drops painting of such A 380 once and reapplies to the state of shininess again, Emirates Air who is operating the most A380 in the world releases it in the time lapse image collectively.

Timelapse Painting of an Airbus A380 | Emirates Airline - YouTube


"At Emirates Airlines, 34 workers spend 15 days, 6000Man hourWe are re-painting A380 over the man-hours of our company. "


It was huge hanger (hangar) that was projected. Here is where A380 is brought ... ...


Despite the huge hanger, A380 is a huge body that can be contained in a state of tears.


Fits within the hanger that is designed to fit the size.


I started working as soon as I got into the hanger. First of all, we will start working to drop all the original paint.


A worker who applies a release agent that melts the paint by spraying on a gondola hanging from the ceiling part of the hanger. Apparently, depending on the part of the paint it is covered with a transparent masking sheet, except for the upper surface of the wing, whether the release agent is used properly.


Spray release agent also on a huge vertical tail wing, about 25 meters high from the ground.


After that, masking was applied also to the glass of the cockpit, and the release agent was applied to the entire fuselage.


The original painting gradually dropped. If you look closely, you can see a worker standing on the wing and scraping off paint.


Painting of the vertical tail is gradually dropped ......


Almost material exposed state. Of course, the character of "Emirates" drawn on the aircraft is completely dropped.


Once the paint has fallen, paint from the first stage again.


I paint a yellow suffice (surfacer: ground preparation) ......


I will put on the color. To do beautiful painting, Emirates Airlines is doing painting of many layers.


We have strict masking on the glass part and the part you want to separate paint.


Suff is painted steadily ... ...


Substrate processing is completed for the entire aircraft.


And painted color. By painting this massive body, the time and the number of people involved in the work are considerable.


After finishing painting the base color of the aircraft, we are preparing to put another color next. Emirates Airlines said it plans to repaint A 380 paint every 7 to 8 years.


Becoming shiny, like a boiled egg A380.


Masking work to paint Emirates' logo on a pure white aircraft.


At the same time, vertical tail painting can proceed.


After masking the logo shape ......


Painted in gold for a while.


When Masking was peeled off, Emirates' logo appeared spectacularly.


In addition, spray clear paint. In Emirates, seven layers of painting have been applied to A380, and it seems to use 1100 kg of paint per machine.


When I unmasked the window, the appearance like a passenger plane came back.


Finally, after pasting the logo of the Dubai International Expo next to the boarding gate, the work is completed.


As a huge aircraft, the total painted area is 3076 square meters. When converting to tatami between Edo, it reaches approximately 2000 tatami.


Painting is completed in this way. A tow car is mounted on the front wheel ......


Sunny to go out from the hanger A 380. Emirates said that in 2015 only 33 aircraft were painted again.