intsim From United States of America, joined Nov 2010, 96 posts, RR: 0 Posted (1 year 4 months 4 days 15 hours ago) and read 3075 times:
Hello,
I got some bad pics of a MD-80 overflying and looking at them I noticed a yellow rectangle just after the leading edge on the underside of the right wing. I was wondering if this was a missing panel.?
dlramp4life From United States of America, joined Jun 2011, 698 posts, RR: 1 Reply 1, posted (1 year 4 months 4 days 14 hours ago) and read 3053 times:
It appears to be a fuel panel.....Usually the stripe is inside the panel door and visible when the door is open.
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Dalmd88 From United States of America, joined Jul 2000, 2365 posts, RR: 15 Reply 2, posted (1 year 4 months 4 days 9 hours ago) and read 2950 times:
Yes, it's the fueling door. My guess is the door was replaced recently. It is unpainted and may have been heavily alodined, giving it a yellowish tint. Some patch repairs on the airplane have this look when they are first installed.
Northwest727 From United States of America, joined Jul 2005, 491 posts, RR: 1 Reply 4, posted (1 year 4 months 4 days 2 hours ago) and read 2808 times:
I think that panel is supposed to be painted that way, maybe its an MD thing?. Note this is a photo of an MD-11 that I took a few years back, but same thing:
TupolevTu154 From UK - England, joined Aug 2004, 2116 posts, RR: 31 Reply 5, posted (1 year 4 months 4 days 1 hour ago) and read 2795 times:
I spent a week refuelling aircraft a few years ago (a few 77W's, A319's, 737's etc) and none of them had panels painted like that. I'd probably go with the unpainted theory (but I don't know much about fuelling panels!).
freeze3192 From United States of America, joined Oct 2006, 125 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (1 year 4 months 3 days 23 hours ago) and read 2722 times:
It's the fuel panel and it's not in an "unpainted" or primer state. MD-80s fuel panels are painted that way (alternating yellow & black stripes) to provide a quick look to see if the fuel panel is open or not.
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Dalmd88 From United States of America, joined Jul 2000, 2365 posts, RR: 15 Reply 7, posted (1 year 4 months 3 days 21 hours ago) and read 2661 times:
Quoting freeze3192 (Reply 6): t's the fuel panel and it's not in an "unpainted" or primer state. MD-80s fuel panels are painted that way (alternating yellow & black stripes) to provide a quick look to see if the fuel panel is open or not.
At DL they are not painted yellow. The inside of the panel has orange reflective tape to show it's open. Same for the water service, oil service, and lav service door. I'm sticking with my replaced and unpainted hunch. They get damaged and replaced more often than any other panel on the wing.
dlramp4life From United States of America, joined Jun 2011, 698 posts, RR: 1 Reply 8, posted (1 year 4 months 3 days 19 hours ago) and read 2612 times:
Quoting Dalmd88 (Reply 7): Quoting freeze3192 (Reply 6):
t's the fuel panel and it's not in an "unpainted" or primer state. MD-80s fuel panels are painted that way (alternating yellow & black stripes) to provide a quick look to see if the fuel panel is open or not.
At DL they are not painted yellow. The inside of the panel has orange reflective tape to show it's open. Same for the water service, oil service, and lav service door. I'm sticking with my replaced and unpainted hunch. They get damaged and replaced more often than any other panel on the wing.
Every DL MD 88/90 I have transfered fuel on, the outside door is no colored but the inside has the reflective stripe on the inside but on other MD model aircraft I have worked at G4 and Falcon Air Express the outside panel was painted yellow with black stripes
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HAWK21M From India, joined Jan 2001, 31201 posts, RR: 58 Reply 11, posted (1 year 4 months 1 day 7 hours ago) and read 2058 times:
Quoting freeze3192 (Reply 6): MD-80s fuel panels are painted that way (alternating yellow & black stripes) to provide a quick look to see if the fuel panel is open or not
Very Informatory.....I wonder why the same logic was not applied on the Boeings/airbuses.although the B737/757 latches in the unlock position are painted reflective orange,but not an entire panel.
the only striped surface on a B737 would be the TE Torque tube in the MWW.
nonfirm From United States of America, joined Sep 2005, 434 posts, RR: 0 Reply 12, posted (1 year 4 months 12 hours ago) and read 1873 times:
Quoting HAWK21M (Reply 11): Very Informatory.....I wonder why the same logic was not applied on the Boeings/airbuses.although the B737/757 latches in the unlock position are painted reflective orange,but not an entire panel.
the only striped surface on a B737 would be the TE Torque tube in the MWW.
This could be an operator specific preference.Here is a pick of an Alaska 737-900 with the same thing.
yeelep From United States of America, joined Apr 2011, 526 posts, RR: 0 Reply 13, posted (1 year 3 months 4 weeks 1 day 21 hours ago) and read 1761 times:
It is not a required FAA marking, so your right, just operator preference.
Its funny you chose that plane to post, I just finished working a #2 engine bleed trip on it about two hours ago.
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