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They are covered in some kind of green film - film that even stays on when they are in the air, as they sometimes are with the film intact. Presumably to protect the exotically expensive aluminum aircraft skin until it's painted - skin which we manufactured at the Kaiser Trentwood rolling mill where I used to work. There's a whole story about aircraft skin sheets - a story for another time.
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