I've been playing around with some ideas for your plane, just for the fun of it. Maybe one of them suits your taste...
I've done checkerboard on just one panel a couple of times. Asymmetric paint scheme can work well but you have to be careful. You don't want it too unbalanced.
Claudio. Bravo. The art work is great. Robert what choices. Derek can you make mask for above art work?Again great work.Jose Modesto
Something like this?
Nice! Logo #1 is really cool but try taking the top "zig-zag" out so the "bolts" actually look more like an S and then read naturally.