Patriotic paint jobs have by no means gone ... This “virtual twin” of the real aircraft will then be used to produce stencils. These are large, adhesive, pieces of canvas that when laid ...

By applying the paint to a plane via a stencil, the surface achieves the correct texture. The next step for the researchers? Determining how to keep barnacles and algae from gumming on to ship ...

"All we have to do from there is line each stencil up, mask and paint." The readiness center first utilized the system in January on a Marine Corps MV-22B Osprey for the aircraft's signature white ...