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Beautiful paint!
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CP-140 Aurora
- Thread starter Wild Bill Kelso
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Wild Bill Kelso
Charter Member 2011
Thank you again for your further comments!
Really appreaciating this!
But all the photos I was able to grab show the Aurora in this immaculate out-of-the-box appearance. Don't know about the ratio of patrol time vs. maintenance&polishing the crews devoted to their birds (I guess it must have been 1 : 20 or so... :d ).
Maybe the ocean spray these birds flew in had a strange cleaning and coating effect?
One other reason might have been that the CF Auroras didn't seem to carry this scheme for too many years until they were painted in the later boring and dull grey scheme...
But all in all, there's not too many places around the fuselage, wings and nacelles where dirt and stains make much sense, except the already mentioned APU exhaust area where subtle exaust marks were added and an area on the upper engine nacelle which seemed like an air outlet to me.
Regards,
Markus.
Really appreaciating this!
Same goes for me!
But all the photos I was able to grab show the Aurora in this immaculate out-of-the-box appearance. Don't know about the ratio of patrol time vs. maintenance&polishing the crews devoted to their birds (I guess it must have been 1 : 20 or so... :d ).
Maybe the ocean spray these birds flew in had a strange cleaning and coating effect?
One other reason might have been that the CF Auroras didn't seem to carry this scheme for too many years until they were painted in the later boring and dull grey scheme...
But all in all, there's not too many places around the fuselage, wings and nacelles where dirt and stains make much sense, except the already mentioned APU exhaust area where subtle exaust marks were added and an area on the upper engine nacelle which seemed like an air outlet to me.
Regards,
Markus.
