PAINTING THE GIANT
Airbus A380 has two paint hangar at its plant in Hambug. Each hangar measuring 213 m long and 105 m wide with two stations for the A380 painting and repainting of the facility for vertical tail plane (vertical tail planes / VTP).
VTP painted first, apart from kesleuruhan production process.
The entire process of painting hangar takes about 11 working days, while the process of painting itself lasts for kuirang than a day.
Painting process:
a. The period of preparation are like grinding. Closure of an unpainted areas (eg windows, doors, landing equipment, (antenna) and clean the surface.
b. Painting aircraft carrier in a special color, with beberaa different layers and colors.
c. The opening of the cover layer on the fuselage.
d. Aircraft weighing.
In one shift there are 24 people along the aircraft painter at eight runway that can move and static grounding on each side of the wing.
Painted the fuselage with one layer of paint takes 60 minutes.
One layer of paint has a thickness of 0.15 mm – thinner than a human hair.
The painter, applying three different kinds of paint on the surface of the A380 fuselage which covers 3150 m2, which is one-off paint primer, one intermediate and one-time cai paint top coat. Depending on the desired number of colors dai each airline, the complete repainting of six to seven layers.
The total weight reached 600 pounds at the A380.
Airbus is the first industrial company has received ISO-Norm 14001. This certification also includes a free painting chromat.
Appliance dealer heat (heat exchanger) the largest in Europe, six feet in diameter, mounted in this painting hangar. Heat recovery efficiency reached 71%. A number of 690 000 m3 of air channeled every hour in each hangar. The air that is already in use by four washing cleaned air to remove the paint mist. Water that has been used reconditioned and reused in the process of painting.