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Discussion agenda for today, whether it is engineering-sound for the converted aircraft not to be painted. With the soaring jet fuel price, the customer just wants to be"creative" in finding ways to make the plane lighter for the ferry flight to Hong Kong. Paint apparently adds a few tonnes of weight to the plane.
The plane has to be stripped to its naked-bareness in order for it to proceed on with the conversion programme. So imagine, a plane that has a silver-bared fuselage as it makes its ferry flight to Hong Kong if an IDR is issued out for the green light. Heh..
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