Boeing (Zhoushan) Completion Center recently held the company's First Paint Skill Contest. The eight-day event, held in the site's paint hangar, attracted numerous employee participants. With two competition groups set up for painting professionals and amateurs, team members demonstrated their technical prowess, competitive enthusiasm and creative imagination in a vibrant display of artistry and skill.

The professional group included all first-line painters and requires the competitors to complete the whole process of painting on the aluminum panel, including cleaning, masking, sanding, primer painting, topcoat painting and other procedures. Competition judges performed a comprehensive evaluation of numerous factors, including topcoat thickness, topcoat gloss, orange peel, thickness uniformity and so on. After fierce competition and multi-professional review, painters Henry Xu, Nick Sun and Siri Li stood out and won.

(Painting site of professional group)

The professional group was set up to show the professional standards of the paint team and further improve the skill level of the painters, while the setting of interest group incorporated more interesting and creative elements, which the goal of strengthening non-front-line employees' understanding of the production process. The group also added more fun and variety to the contest, making it a highlight of the event.

The participants in the interest group were given the "task" of designing and painting a 1:200 Boeing aircraft model. They were required to independently design the painting scheme, standardize the wearing of personal protective equipment in the painting process, and complete the masking, sanding, topcoat painting, stencil and drawing on the aircraft model. Judges selected the best works based on four aspects: painting quality, stencil presentation results, overall aesthetics and design concept.

After several days of competition, interest group competitors submitted 10 aircraft models with their unique liveries. Merrill Huo and Frances Cen from the quality department won the championship for their design, which prominently displays "Boeing" and "Zhoushan" text while incorporating the rolling islands and peaks of Zhoushan Islands and a "50" on the mid-fuselage, marking Boeing's 50-year friendship with China and commitment help build the future together.

(First Prize of Interest Group, Boeing's 50th Anniversary Flight in China)

(All works of Interest Group)