Guys, save all the publicity talk for the other thread, no need for 2 of the same. As far as painting it silver goes, they couldn’t do that if they wanted to fly supersonic. AF doesn’t apply, since they’re colours are all white anyhow (even though this can be debated at times, even on Concorde!), but why do you think BA’s Concorde’s never donned the blue and grey scheme? Because the paint would just peal right off when they hit supersonic. The only time the Concorde was painted in a non-white scheme, was when Pepsi chartered it about 6 years ago, some of you might remember. It was painted all blue, except for the wings. Those flights were all flown at subsonic speeds, or else that blue paint would have come right off. The reasoning behind this is, white doesn’t get as hot as any other color because it reflects the sun’s rays, it doesn’t aborb them.