Pilottim747 From United States, joined Jul 2001, 1606 posts, RR: 5 Reply 2, posted (5 years 8 months 3 weeks 5 days 11 hours ago) and read 403 times:
I saw NWA's new livery recently on April 4th at MSP. Landed on a 757 from MCO and we started taxiing to the gate. Then out of the darkness landed a B753 from PHX carrying the new NWA livery (N590NW). Nice treat to end the flight.
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GDB From United Kingdom, joined May 2001, 10267 posts, RR: 70 Reply 3, posted (5 years 8 months 3 weeks 5 days 5 hours ago) and read 360 times:
I the summer of 1984 there was much speculation that BA was getting a new livery, to replace the one we'd had since the BOAC/BEA merger in 1974.
Some thought that this 737 delivered in June 1984 with this unusual silver grey top, might be a pointer to how it would look;
It turned out to be an experiment to do with new paints.
In early December, over a few days, staff were rotated through West Pen hangar, Technical Block A at LHR, with rows of seating like a concert venue installed, to see an audio/visual display ending with lasers, dry ice and when the lights were up, this a newly delivered 737 looking like this:
Designed by Landor, it used elements of another Landor customer, (a Mexican cigarette company), in an effort for a bunch of people in California to define a 'British' look for BA.
While like many, I knew we needed to change, I found it a bit underwhelming.
But on one aircraft, it looked great, IMHO the best livery this type ever had:
In June 1997, Concorde G-BOAF had all its titles removed, just having the new BRITISH AIRWAYS lettering, as one night the designers came along to supervise adding the final touches, after they had, one of the designers, a woman right out of the 'Absolutely Fabulous' TV comedy asked one of our engineers what he thought of it, she was not pleased with his reaction.
Because he, like many BA staff, had seen models of the different 'World Images' on model aircraft on display to staff, we all thought 'what the f*** is that?' 'There is no strong image' etc.
But we in Concorde avoided those silly tails, this one was one of the worst, (one BA 747 Capt was moved to write in the tech log 'huge tar like deposit on the tail' when his aircraft was in this scheme, pictured here on this 767):
From 2000, common sense, driven by negative PR (including from many customers) prevailed, and the Concorde tail was adapted fleet wide, after BA had pissed away £60 million;
Parisien From France, joined Dec 2000, 813 posts, RR: 1 Reply 5, posted (5 years 8 months 3 weeks 5 days 3 hours ago) and read 327 times:
I was in LAX and saw a Garuda Indonesie DC10 in the current livery. I thought it was one of the most beautiful liveries outthere then (and is now too).
2000first From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 6, posted (5 years 8 months 3 weeks 5 days 3 hours ago) and read 318 times:
In Jan 95 I was waiting for my flight from Lyon back to Belfast, when the Airtours A320 G-YJBM pulled up at our gate in the (then) brand new livery. (was'nt it called the sunburst or something like that?). I wasnt even aware that they were getting a new livery, so it was a nice suprise!
IMissPiedmont From United States, joined May 2001, 5485 posts, RR: 45 Reply 8, posted (5 years 8 months 3 weeks 4 days 10 hours ago) and read 267 times:
The first HP aircraft in the new colors. I had time to print it and show it to a friend who is an HP pilot before he'd seen it in person.
Though my eyes could see I still was a blind man, though my mind could think I still was a madman
USAFHummer From United States, joined May 2000, 10685 posts, RR: 56 Reply 9, posted (5 years 8 months 3 weeks 4 days 9 hours ago) and read 263 times:
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Well my story of the first time I saw the new UPS livery a few weeks ago...
March 29, 2003...
The PHL spotters gathering was underway, we went over to a good area by the runways for photography, knowing that two UPS heavies were due in shortly...we highly doubted the recently revealed livery on its 763 would make an appearance, but nonetheless we anxiously awaited its arrival...several moments later the esteemed PHL Airport PD showed up and kicked us out, and we went back to our original meeting place, which still gave us a downgraded view, to regroup...a few moments later we saw a UPS 763 come in...old colors...then, about 2 minutes after that, to our shock...the new colors floated in for a landing on 27R as we let some serious obscenities fly, knowing we had missed a huge photo op on account of the cops...we saw it...but no pictures...it was very disappointing to say the least...even though the scheme itself was magnificent...
Greg
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saw a ad of TWA in the inflight magazine about the new livery (I was traveling from Frankfurt to New York/JFK (TW741) on a B-767-231ER N603TW in the old red stripes livery) and then I saw the first airplane a L-1011-100 which flew me from JFK to STL (TW845) where I continued to Reno on an old colored MD80 !
I really liked the new livery of TWA, which made it my favorite airline!
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