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Post subject: Re: Aerostars Posted: 17 Apr 2020, 18:48 |
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Joined: 11/22/08 Posts: 2921 Post Likes: +928 Company: USAF Propulsion Laboratory Location: Dayton, OH
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Mine is committed also
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Post subject: Re: Aerostars Posted: 17 Apr 2020, 19:58 |
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Joined: 08/09/11 Posts: 1732 Post Likes: +2053 Company: Naples Jet Center Location: KAPF KPIA
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Username Protected wrote: Mine is committed also Committed to keep the economy moving!
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Post subject: Re: Aerostars Posted: 17 Apr 2020, 22:36 |
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Username Protected wrote: Whelp, I’m committed now. So much for paint touch up! Awesome. I’m jealous.
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Post subject: Re: Aerostars Posted: 18 Apr 2020, 00:05 |
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Joined: 08/09/11 Posts: 1732 Post Likes: +2053 Company: Naples Jet Center Location: KAPF KPIA
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Username Protected wrote: Whelp, I’m committed now. So much for paint touch up! Awesome. I’m jealous.
I’d rather be doing a panel John, but, for about the first time ever, the paint shop needed a project and so here we go, now it’s an advertising project to show off our work. I went from being dedicated to fixing up the green and lime job to hoping I can come up with something fresh while dealing with the flu challenges.
How’s yours coming?
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Post subject: Re: Aerostars Posted: 18 Apr 2020, 11:51 |
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Joined: 12/17/13 Posts: 6356 Post Likes: +5539 Location: Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA
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This is completely personal preference and most people probably won't agree with me, but I think on Aerostars in particular, due to their bullet shape, they look best (again, to me) when they have paint schemes that don't incorporate a strip or line along the midriff. Or worse, a darker belly. It makes them look like boats. You want to enhance that bullet feel by having one uniform color on the nose, uninterrupted by lines or another tone. In my opinion, the second tone is best reseved for the rear parts or rudder. But again, this is just me. To me this looks much better: Attachment: aerostar.jpg Attachment: Screen Shot 2020-04-18 at 8.47.10 AM.png Than this: Attachment: aerostar.jpg Attachment: 13.jpg
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Post subject: Re: Aerostars Posted: 18 Apr 2020, 16:07 |
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Joined: 03/22/18 Posts: 3808 Post Likes: +2104 Location: Nashville, TN
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I kind of like that last one.
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Post subject: Re: Aerostars Posted: 18 Apr 2020, 16:54 |
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Joined: 02/09/09 Posts: 5587 Post Likes: +2546 Location: Owosso, MI (KRNP)
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I really liked the looks of a dark metallic blue on any airplane. The blue and silver one on this quarters AOA Log was sharp. The silver is a b#$&h to touch up though. https://www.flickr.com/photos/g-dash_an ... 523399466/There is a lime green one with winglets around the Akron area that is also beautiful. I can't find a picture of it at the moment. Even though mine is a 90's Piper scheme, it looks good and get a ton of comments, but not as fast as the modern schemes. Attachment: 1DC-2.JPG
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Post subject: Re: Aerostars Posted: 18 Apr 2020, 17:25 |
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Username Protected wrote: How’s yours coming? The quarantine has slowed things down...a waiting game for me like lots of others I guess. Just out of curiosity Bruce, how much for a paint job?
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Post subject: Re: Aerostars Posted: 18 Apr 2020, 17:29 |
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Username Protected wrote: There is a lime green one with winglets around the Akron area that is also beautiful. I can't find a picture of it at the moment. This one?
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Post subject: Re: Aerostars Posted: 18 Apr 2020, 18:57 |
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Joined: 08/30/17 Posts: 44 Post Likes: +117 Location: Palm Springs CA
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Username Protected wrote: Some of the original schemes are quite cool in the retro way and compliment the plane. I don’t mind the two tone if done with some flow. It’s easy to screw up the proportions. N29DP!! That was the first Aerostar I ever flew...Oct 15, 1990. I was out of college and ferrying airplanes for The Dealer at Love Field to build time while looking for a regular flying gig. He sent me to Greenwood SC to pick that ship up and bring it to DAL. I had never flown an Aerostar before, so I took a flight manual with me to study while heading to SC. It hadn't flown in about a year (previous owner scared himself in it, parked it and walked away), so it needed some grease in a few areas. I started the engines with a battery cart and taxied around a bit to get used to the nosewheel steering. Shut down the engines, topped the fuel tanks, then started up again and taxied out for takeoff. Imagine my surprise when it flew like a real airplane. The only glitch was an erratic airspeed/VSI indication on climbout, but the alternate static source made the needles behave again. That was a fun trip...GRD-MLU-DAL, 4.9 hours block time. I kinda like the retro-looking paint scheme. I wonder where that thing ended up? Probably a scrap yard somewhere by now.
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Post subject: Re: Aerostars Posted: 18 Apr 2020, 21:06 |
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Username Protected wrote: How’s yours coming? The quarantine has slowed things down...a waiting game for me like lots of others I guess. Just out of curiosity Bruce, how much for a paint job?
Not sure yet. It’s been a few years since I’ve done an Aerostar. I suspect it’ll cost $50k. I’m sure some of the nice ones you see might be $60k or more and then some of the low end jobs are less. I appreciate the hard work it takes to generate quality paint work.
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Post subject: Re: Aerostars Posted: 18 Apr 2020, 21:14 |
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Joined: 08/09/11 Posts: 1732 Post Likes: +2053 Company: Naples Jet Center Location: KAPF KPIA
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Username Protected wrote: Some of the original schemes are quite cool in the retro way and compliment the plane. I don’t mind the two tone if done with some flow. It’s easy to screw up the proportions. N29DP!! That was the first Aerostar I ever flew...Oct 15, 1990. I was out of college and ferrying airplanes for The Dealer at Love Field to build time while looking for a regular flying gig. He sent me to Greenwood SC to pick that ship up and bring it to DAL. I had never flown an Aerostar before, so I took a flight manual with me to study while heading to SC. It hadn't flown in about a year (previous owner scared himself in it, parked it and walked away), so it needed some grease in a few areas. I started the engines with a battery cart and taxied around a bit to get used to the nosewheel steering. Shut down the engines, topped the fuel tanks, then started up again and taxied out for takeoff. Imagine my surprise when it flew like a real airplane. The only glitch was an erratic airspeed/VSI indication on climbout, but the alternate static source made the needles behave again. That was a fun trip...GRD-MLU-DAL, 4.9 hours block time. I kinda like the retro-looking paint scheme. I wonder where that thing ended up? Probably a scrap yard somewhere by now.
Ha! That’s fantastic. The old “flight manual flight school” in the pilot lounge before ferrying an unfamiliar airplane over unairworthy terrain in bad weather trick.
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Post subject: Re: Aerostars Posted: 19 Apr 2020, 05:35 |
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Joined: 12/18/12 Posts: 787 Post Likes: +399 Location: Europe
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Here's a radical paint scheme for ya : Attachment: N35LL Kens Astar.jpg
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