Achromatics Applied for Painting and Designing of Airplanes

Among different parameters are important for an airplane, i.e., speed, safety and so on, the color design is the first thing transfers to the passengers and influences on observers. Obviously, by paying attention to the model and the type of the airplane as well as the related airlines, passenger preliminary selected the whole comfort and safety factors which they concern about them. After all of these decisions, finally they face to the airplane in the airport. In this time, color design is one of the most important things which extracted from the whole appearance of the airplane and affected passengers.Generally, the first imagination of the color of an airplane refers to the white or even a combination of white and other colors. Now, the question is why airplanes are generally painted by white? From a color scientists’ viewpoint, white is one of achromatics. Because of the lack of chroma an ideal achromatic i.e., black, gray and white, is inherently neutral. Various industries like paint, print, paper, textile, dentistry and so on use white. Results of this research show that there are different reasons represented for application of white to paint the airplanes. Thermal advantages of white, indicating the problems, less fade from exposure to sun, the economic aims and psychological effects are kinds of various reasons.

کلیدواژه ها:

Airplane ، Color design ، Achromatic ، Black ، White