> One area that's crying out for super-lightweight paints is the aviation sector. Airliners, according to Simple Flying, carry between 272-544 kg )600-1,200 lb) of paint – and everything an aircraft carries has a direct impact on fuel efficiency.
The vast majority of that weight is in the white paint on the body of the plane, which has to be thick because of mechanical abrasion in flight so that weight is largely unavoidable.
The vast majority of that weight is in the white paint on the body of the plane, which has to be thick because of mechanical abrasion in flight so that weight is largely unavoidable.