Timeline for Why are planes generally painted white?
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| Sep 24, 2014 at 2:57 | comment | added | jwenting | @reirab of course, same thing effectively as a short lease or rental. You put the styling on for a very limited time only. | |
| Sep 23, 2014 at 14:37 | comment | added | reirab | Stickers are also used for special, non-permanent liveries, such as the Hobbit-themed liveries that Air New Zealand has had the last few years. | |
| Apr 2, 2014 at 7:03 | comment | added | jwenting | @Speldosa you can. White is however nicely neutral. If you put KLM stickers on a US Airways aircraft... Now put them on an Air France aircraft... In both cases after removing the original titles and logos of course. And that's how rental/short term lease companies work. | |
| Apr 1, 2014 at 14:01 | comment | added | Speldosa | Why couldn't you place a sticker on an airplane with some other color? | |
| Mar 18, 2014 at 7:43 | comment | added | jwenting | @PhilPerry yes, they do. And yes, they do sometimes come off when not properly applied. But it's quite possible to use stickers that require special chemicals to get off. | |
| Mar 17, 2014 at 18:54 | comment | added | Phil Perry | Do they really use stickers for names and logos? I would think it likely they would come off too easily. | |
| Mar 17, 2014 at 9:33 | history | answered | jwenting | CC BY-SA 3.0 |