Good looking Phenom. Glad it’s not boring lame white. Over the years I’ve seen lots of private airplanes with good paint jobs but they are relatively few and far between.
Over the years I’ve only built a handful of civilian airplanes. Looking at this guy, makes me interested in branching out to civies, simply to paint them with interesting color schemes.
I heartily concur. Particularly when it comes to post-WWII racer warbirds. We need more colorful Mustangs.
I suspect one reason we don’t see interesting paint schemes on bizjets is how stupid expensive they are! Painting a little Cessna is $30,000+……last I heard. Can’t imagine what a Phenom would cost.
I think another reason is so that they do not stand out. Years ago I talked to a couple of corporate pilots who told me that the reason that their companies do not put their emblems on the airplane is to make it less conspicuous for corporate spies and even criminals to track them visually. I have been told that there’s a way that companies can have their aircraft blocked from showing up on commercial flight tracking software. I remember that there’s some college kid last year who managed to find and publish the flights of the contemptible Taylor Swift - she’s big time on the bandwagon that people should not travel by Earth-killing evil airplanes or internal combustion engines.
Once I was commenting about the appearance of a dark blue painted Grumman Tiger (the AA-5, not the F11F) and some know it all started lecturing me that dark colored airplanes were less aerodynamic because they absorbed heat which made them slightly less efficient in generating lift. I asked my aeronautical engineer friend about that and he asked what kind of mushrooms the guy was smoking.
Yeah I have no idea how much it would cost to paint one of these things although “outrageous” is the adjective that comes to mind.
That’s an excellent point. I suspect you’re right.
Regards,
M
I remember this black Learjet from Cirrus being quite original. It really stood out parked on ramp.
I do love me some LotR. That might have to be my first modern airliner with those LotR decals.
I don’t remember if I posted it but a few months ago I found that decal producer who makes decals for one of the twin Beeches I used to fly. It’s now owned by a company in the Caribbean and flies out of Puerto Rico if I recall correctly. Still the same paint job, the new owner just put their company name onthe fuselage above the windows.
