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on 10/12/2007
I work in the US air forces as an aircraft structural maintenance technician and I've painted quite a few planes over the years. I think we used about 10 or 12 gallons of primer and paint to paint an F-16, and that's a very small aircraft. Imgine how much 10 gallons of paint would weigh. An aircraft's fuel consumption and range can actually be strongly affected by it's paint scheme.
And yes, that room is very toxic with all those fumes. Of all the paint you spray at a surface with an HVLP gun, only about 70% is sticking to the surface the rest is overspray and hangs in the air. That stuff will affect your health ten fold faster than second hand smoke.
Personaly, I find the most time consuming part of an aircraft repaint is prep work. That's masking windows, inlets, intakes, drains, antennas, sensors, raydome, lights, every little hole on a plane. A plane that size would take an entire 10 hour shift of maybe 6 or 7 people just to prep.
1 gallon paint average = 10 pounds
So around 100 kg paint and 100 kg primer?