Same for a lot of new planes, you won’t believe how massive the A350 engines are, they’re basically the same size as those for the A380. I work on 737’s everyday and I’m still stunned about the 737 Max engine sizes.

The basic explanation is that the actual « engine » isn’t the whole size, the rest is the fans pushing more air ( but colder ) to generate more thrust for the same engine size.

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Dangerous-Honey7422@reddit

The plastic and tape patch princess

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neptune2304@reddit (OP)

Lol hey man I rocked a combover for 4months 😅

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neptune2304@reddit (OP)

Lol hey man I rocked a combover for 4months 😅

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chrissn007@reddit

Flysoot.com

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1039198468@reddit

ULCC

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72corvids@reddit

Ultra Low Cost Carrier

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shadeyyyy_@reddit

Ultra Low Cost Carrier

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Ground_not_found@reddit

stands for Ultra Low Cost Carrier

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shadeyyyy_@reddit

I know

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fixedprecision16@reddit

short for ULCC

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shadeyyyy_@reddit

Aaand I also know that

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ShitNoPsychoBitch@reddit

ultra low cost carrier

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No_Tailor_787@reddit

I'm guessing that it's from flying through hail.

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Fragrant-Can-1467@reddit

Seems to be a Flyscoot thing, saw this one at Changi airport in Singapore last summer

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PeteThePolarBear@reddit

I was on that plane in August!

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PeteThePolarBear@reddit

Looks like the one I caught!

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Pop_Smoke@reddit

They went ludicrous speed, and peeled the paint back.

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revenant1976@reddit

Nothing

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lucathecontemplator@reddit

Paint doesn’t like to stick to carbon fibre like it does to aluminium

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ABoutDeSouffle@reddit

As Qatar Airways had to learn when they used substandard paint, sued Airbus about it and got their whole order Airbus planes cancelled in retaliation. They later made up privately.

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AreWeThereYetNo@reddit

Love the combover.

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Hfyvr1@reddit

Just flew to Bali on this plane a few weeks ago so it’s still going strong 💪

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Hfyvr1@reddit

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jeffersonkhoo@reddit

Taken on late March this year

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crazyabootmycollies@reddit

That plane got vitiligo!

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sasanist@reddit

Shy one :)

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b20339@reddit

Scootalicious was a choice

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Hfyvr1@reddit

Is it wrong if I wanted to take a lil’ lick? 👅

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neptune2304@reddit (OP)

You weren’t chipping paint off the fuselage for a souvenir were you? 😜

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pope1701@reddit

Hey, the 787 and 350 can do that all on their own!

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piratedevo@reddit

A snack for later maybe?

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Hfyvr1@reddit

Mmm… shhh 🤫 keep it down. I’d much rather have this than a planetag

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angeledduirbonesu@reddit

Wasn't there an issue with the painting of the 787s? I don't remember well but it was something that caused the paint to go away

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ATangK@reddit

Reminds me of those planes that flew through volcanic ash.

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Psychological-Scar53@reddit

Looks like it flew threw a shit storm...

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Nailhimself@reddit

When shit hits the turbofan

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BrandnerKaspar@reddit

A shit tornado, right Randy?

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USsoldier35@reddit

A "Shitnado"?

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albionarcadia@reddit

Not another night of the shit abyss, please.

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304bl@reddit

Exactly my thoughts as well

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Adjutant_Reflex_@reddit

Paint cracking is a common issue on the 787s, haven’t seen it as much (or as bad as this one) on the fuselage. But it’s purely cosmetic and seeing as Scoot is a ULCC they’re not going to take it out of service early for a new paint job.

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Gilleke_@reddit

well, technicaly is not "purely cosmetic" as CFRP can not be exposed to UV light

so you have to take action and cover exposed areas with hi-speed tape an perform repetitive inspections replacing tape if necesary

in fact, once CRRP is exposed and hi speed tape applied the issue is only getting worse, as each time you remove hi speed the exposed area is getting bigger and bigger...

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microjetsetter@reddit

what is CFRP/ CRRP?

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whowhatwherenow@reddit

Carbon Fibre Reinforced Plastic

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Gilleke_@reddit

actually is not plastic, its a kind of polymeric resin

its a mix of liquid resin that penetrates carbon fibers and only need heat and vacuum to cure

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whowhatwherenow@reddit

“Plastics are a wide range of synthetic or semisynthetic materials composed primarily of polymers.”

Same family.

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nacho_breath@reddit

Doesn't matter, it's still called CFRP

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Several-Eggplant4460@reddit

in fact, once CRRP is exposed and hi speed tape applied the issue is only getting worse, as each time you remove hi speed the exposed area is getting bigger and bigger...

Well eventually you just cover the entire plane with speed tape and you'll have a new coating, who needs paint

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Gilleke_@reddit

yup! just cover your lightweight state of the art carbon fiber body with some good old style aluminium

hahahaha

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CardOk755@reddit

How much would that add to the weight...

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LowPomegranate225@reddit

Speed taper up!

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prof-bunnies@reddit

As my a&p teacher said that looks like about 5 layers ( just under 500 mph). Most cesnsa, piper, money and beach will need 2-3 layers max on the piston aircraft.... He said it but only as a joke!

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Tony_Three_Pies@reddit

It's not purely cosmetic on the composite airplanes. The paint helps protect the layers underneath, so having a bunch of it missing for a long time can be a problem. It's why you see so many 787 wings covered in speed tape.

It might just be an artifact of the picture but it looks like this plane has had some hasty, patchy repainting done.

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plarah@reddit

I was flying on a Scoot 787 and I saw this, but I also see something that looked like a “gash” with no tape and it looked like chainmail

I’m guessing it’s still safe, but I’d never seen this before. And as a nervous flyer I had to distract myself to not think too much about it.

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DogsOutTheWindow@reddit

Hard to tell from the quality of the photo but 787 paint peeling often has similar texture. IIRC it’s actually a mark off texture from the primer but it’s been a while since I worked on that project.

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evarga@reddit

Is it just bare carbon fiber/CFRP? Looks like prep for a scarf repair, but customers should never see that.

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kinkysubt@reddit

UV degradation can happen on exposed CFRP, how bad it is structurally I can’t say for sure, but I do know that it makes it much harder to keep the paint on once it happens.

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ImissTBBT@reddit

A lot of flying. The airflow naturally takes it's toll on the paint. This one is likely due for an overhaul soonish.

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CompetitiveLet7110@reddit

What the fuck is scoot up to gng I hate how they're a branch of my country's airline

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Hfyvr1@reddit

After seeing more photos of multiple scoot aircraft and Latam, I wonder if being living in high heat or being repainted is high humidity locations is affecting the paint jobs. Seems coincidental since most of the 787’s operating for North American or European carrier don’t end up looking this bad.

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ThoSt_@reddit

You should see the other plane… wow!

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Cumulus-Crafts@reddit

They have the name on the plane wrong. It's meant to be 'Sootalicious', that's why it looks like that.

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Elgato_9lives@reddit

Plane pattern baldness

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Maximum-Desk7927@reddit

ai

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Sufficient_Eye5804@reddit

Hail storm?

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bretthren2086@reddit

Early Dreamliners have issues with paint. Fairly common fault.

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iddereddi@reddit

Toupee has come off.

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MidnightBlue_037@reddit

Maybe hail? saw similar thing for my flight too.

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forged_steel@reddit

Looks like someone didn't do the pull tests...

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Transposableelement0@reddit

Plane pattern baldness

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demzrdumez@reddit

What happened to this plane?

It was leased to an airline with little money or expertise to operate.

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Perth_R34@reddit

Scoot is Singapore Airlines’ subsidiary.

Scoot and Singapore Airlines planes are maintained by the same team.

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MonteyCarlos@reddit

Fun fact: It takes about 20 people somewhere between 15-20 days to strip and repaint a B787 (depends a bit on the variant and complexity of the livery). It's roughly 5,500-6,000 total hours of work and uses somewhere in the region of 650-750 litres of paint.

If you assume a daily EBIT margin of $75k and ferry flights either side of getting to the MRO, the downtime alone would cost the airline $1.75m just in lost EBIT. That doesnt account for the MRO, labour, materials and certification.

Repainting B787s is an expensive exercise and as others have correctly pointed out, due to the CFRP structure, it needs to be done very carefully as some of the paint and primer actually form part of the overall aircraft structure. If you strip too deep, it's a structural repairs as per the SRM.

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jsdcasti@reddit

It’s due for a strip and repaint. Those section 41 on 787 needs to be strip and repaint due to UV damage.

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Firm_Music5317@reddit

11-4 bridge

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Teamkiwi1@reddit

Syphillis

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YMMV25@reddit

They built it out of plastic instead of metal. Paint doesn’t stick as well.

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Theaspiringaviator@reddit

Carbon Composite

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BrewCityChaserV2@reddit

CFRP is literally a form of plastic.

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Immediate_Garden_716@reddit

sandblast “vintage” livery?? cool :)

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Snydley_Whiplash@reddit

Psoriasis

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koalapear@reddit

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Superb_Skin_5180@reddit

It’s tired and just having a rest.

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blurple_nipple@reddit

I flew on Scootalicious nearly a year ago and it looked like this back then

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pirate21213@reddit

Wonder if it's somehow related to the one sitting in PAE by the future of flight museum..

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mrspaznout@reddit

budget cuts

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Pherllerp@reddit

Dafuq is FlyScoot…?

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Sasquatch-d@reddit

It’s an airline... Have you heard of every airline in the world but this one alluded you?

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LowPomegranate225@reddit

I think it's the budget by Singapore airlines but not sure.

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trueschoolalumni@reddit

Yes, it's fully owned by Singapore Air. It's their version of Jetstar for Qantas.

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Pherllerp@reddit

I’ll find out if I agree with you next week when I fly Singapore for the first time but it’s going to be hard to surpass Emirates in terms of novelty and liquid hospitality.

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Carlito_2112@reddit

A low cost airline based in Singapore.

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UserRemoved@reddit

Cheap as management of ULLC. It’s shameful and embarrassing that they don’t maintain it better.

Now we all have to image the parts we can’t see are better then what we can see.

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darkblackthistle@reddit

I flew on a plane that looked like this once. It was delayed due to issues with the cabin's pressurization system. We then proceeded to have (what felt like at the time) a very steep descent through a storm, felt like I was floating in my seat.

I follow this subreddit because it's fascinating and has helped me get over my fear of flying, but I do always wonder about that one flight in particular and how paranoid I was.

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