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J-060, Clean config, and fresh paint
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Repainting a nose cone has to be done with special paint, as the radar dome is in the nose. If they use other type of paint than the special kind, the radar will lose functionality, something we don't want ofcourse. The messy looks are probably because of cleaning of the nose cone. The nose doesn't often get cleaned or repainted (hence the always darker color of the nose compared to the body). Sometimes (rarely though) they try to make some special pattern by cleaning only bits of the nose and leaving some dirty. Maybe this is the case with J-060.Brian wrote:very nice indeed! although the registration of this aircraft looks like a Le Bourget / ILA registration
And what's up with the nosecone of the J-060? it's always messy on this a/c.. could't they paint that too? (they could paint the nose of the J-015)..
I was at Volkel to watch the new demo bird up close and had a quick word with Chris Vaneker. He told me they were very happy to get permission to paint the entire aircraft including the nose cone but painting this small part was almost as expensive as painting the entire fuselage, wings and tail together!kiwi wrote:Repainting a nose cone has to be done with special paint, as the radar dome is in the nose. If they use other type of paint than the special kind, the radar will lose functionality, something we don't want ofcourse. The messy looks are probably because of cleaning of the nose cone. The nose doesn't often get cleaned or repainted (hence the always darker color of the nose compared to the body). Sometimes (rarely though) they try to make some special pattern by cleaning only bits of the nose and leaving some dirty. Maybe this is the case with J-060.
The nose of J-015 is either painted black with a special paint (that they have the black special doesn't mean they have the right grey used on the operational F-16's), or with other paint, meaning the radar functionality of J-015 is lost (and therefor not operationally functional)
Exactly, which explains why they don't do it very often and just let the nose get dirtyMark B. wrote:I was at Volkel to watch the new demo bird up close and had a quick word with Chris Vaneker. He told me they were very happy to get permission to paint the entire aircraft including the nose cone but painting this small part was almost as expensive as painting the entire fuselage, wings and tail together!kiwi wrote:Repainting a nose cone has to be done with special paint, as the radar dome is in the nose. If they use other type of paint than the special kind, the radar will lose functionality, something we don't want ofcourse. The messy looks are probably because of cleaning of the nose cone. The nose doesn't often get cleaned or repainted (hence the always darker color of the nose compared to the body). Sometimes (rarely though) they try to make some special pattern by cleaning only bits of the nose and leaving some dirty. Maybe this is the case with J-060.
The nose of J-015 is either painted black with a special paint (that they have the black special doesn't mean they have the right grey used on the operational F-16's), or with other paint, meaning the radar functionality of J-015 is lost (and therefor not operationally functional)
Mark
) the early block 1 aircraft where all delevered with black radomes. It was only after a couple of years they were replaced with gray ones. The block 5 aircraft were delivered form the factory with gray radomes.As a member you get access to all our
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