AirplaneBoy From United States, joined May 2004, 501 posts, RR: 16 Posted (1 year 11 months 3 weeks 5 days 10 hours ago) and read 5978 times:
Hi gang!
I hope the new year is treating everyone well.
I have a question regarding AC's aircraft. I don't know if it has to do with the lighting of the pictures I've looked at, but it appears that A/C with the new livery seem to come in two versions: both have the new tail, but some aircraft appear to have a white fuselage, while others have the minty green shade of the tail on the fuselage. Can anyone enlighten me?
YVR99 From Canada, joined Oct 2004, 57 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (1 year 11 months 3 weeks 5 days 10 hours ago) and read 5939 times:
As an intermediate step, AC simply added a decal with the new tail scheme to the tail of many of their planes in order to quasi-standardise the livery. Presumably this was done because some were well away from their C or D checks (some one pls remind me which) when painting is necessary, and AC didn't want the disruption or added cost of an extra paint job.
ORDRyan28 From United States, joined Jul 2006, 987 posts, RR: 12 Reply 3, posted (1 year 11 months 3 weeks 5 days 10 hours ago) and read 5929 times:
Quoting AirplaneBoy (Thread starter): I have a question regarding AC's aircraft. I don't know if it has to do with the lighting of the pictures I've looked at, but it appears that A/C with the new livery seem to come in two versions: both have the new tail, but some aircraft appear to have a white fuselage, while others have the minty green shade of the tail on the fuselage. Can anyone enlighten me?
Quoting CRJ 900 (Reply 1): White is the transitional paint job, eventually they'll all be blue or minty-green as you call it.
Yes...just a temporary, colorless fuselage. Eventually it will be painted in that lovely shade of green!
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ORDRyan28 From United States, joined Jul 2006, 987 posts, RR: 12 Reply 5, posted (1 year 11 months 3 weeks 5 days 10 hours ago) and read 5859 times:
Quoting AirplaneBoy (Reply 4): This site is amazing. Where else can you receive such quick responses on the little things some may consider "nerdy?" Wink
Well, unless you had an aviation robot handy, nowhere but here!
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AirbusfanYYZ From Canada, joined Oct 2002, 1337 posts, RR: 23 Reply 8, posted (1 year 11 months 3 weeks 5 days ago) and read 5352 times:
There is actually another little piece to the story...
The first few aircraft were painted in a darker shade which is really quite dreadful. AC realized this and lightened up the shade considerably on subsequent aircraft.
RicardoFG From Canada, joined Feb 2005, 632 posts, RR: 1 Reply 9, posted (1 year 11 months 3 weeks 4 days 23 hours ago) and read 5230 times:
Quoting AirbusfanYYZ (Reply 8): There is actually another little piece to the story...
The first few aircraft were painted in a darker shade which is really quite dreadful. AC realized this and lightened up the shade considerably on subsequent aircraft.
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And I must say, in sunlight the "new" shade of blue is absolutely gorgeous, as it is a silvery blue...even at night it looks great, the older "blue" looked like a flying tube of toothpaste.
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YOWza From Malaysia, joined Jul 2005, 3943 posts, RR: 20 Reply 13, posted (1 year 11 months 3 weeks 4 days 21 hours ago) and read 5019 times:
Don't forget AC also has a few logo jets floating around. These are definitely worth a look. As much as I hate the toothpaste livery, I have come to accept it. I'm curious to see whether it will look as good on the incoming 777 fleet as artist impressions would have us believe.
RoyalAtlantis From United States, joined Nov 2006, 102 posts, RR: 0 Reply 14, posted (1 year 11 months 3 weeks 4 days 19 hours ago) and read 4838 times:
Hi everyone...
I thought that AC was abandoning the green/minty blue...whatever that color is/was...for just the white as it was too expensive in general??
If you look on the Boeing website (as just one example) the fuselage in all examples (Dreamliner, 777LR & 300ER) is white...
AirbusfanYYZ From Canada, joined Oct 2002, 1337 posts, RR: 23 Reply 15, posted (1 year 11 months 3 weeks 4 days 18 hours ago) and read 4700 times:
Quoting RoyalAtlantis (Reply 14): If you look on the Boeing website (as just one example) the fuselage in all examples (Dreamliner, 777LR & 300ER) is white...
I'm sorry but I don't know what you're talking about every image shows the blue fuselage. In fact even AC's website uses the Boeing renderings and they clearly show the light blue colour.
Robsawatsky From Canada, joined Dec 2003, 597 posts, RR: 0 Reply 16, posted (1 year 11 months 3 weeks 4 days 17 hours ago) and read 4658 times:
Quoting RoyalAtlantis (Reply 14): I thought that AC was abandoning the green/minty blue...whatever that color is/was...for just the white as it was too expensive in general??
Nope. This comes up all the time though, except from AC.
If you look at AC's fleet on their website, it shows the new Boeings in the minty-blue/green livery.
ORDRyan28 From United States, joined Jul 2006, 987 posts, RR: 12 Reply 18, posted (1 year 11 months 3 weeks 4 days 17 hours ago) and read 4529 times:
Quoting CNZ3 (Reply 11): It was a 762, and it's now in the new C/S. Damn good too, 'cause that thing was fugly when I saw it.
I know I'll get ripped for this, but, if that plane has a little "touch-up" done, the stainless steel "AA" look with the mint tail could look very stunning..
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Flyboy2001 From Canada, joined May 2005, 124 posts, RR: 0 Reply 19, posted (1 year 11 months 3 weeks 4 days 15 hours ago) and read 3929 times:
I remember hearing that the new paint, being metallic, added more than the usual paint weight to each aircraft... anyone know if this is true and how much heavier the paint job would be?
Must say, the new lighter blue is MUCH better than the initial one!
Olympus69 From Canada, joined Jun 2002, 1706 posts, RR: 11 Reply 20, posted (1 year 11 months 3 weeks 4 days 14 hours ago) and read 3222 times:
Quoting AirbusfanYYZ (Reply 8): There is actually another little piece to the story...
The first few aircraft were painted in a darker shade which is really quite dreadful. AC realized this and lightened up the shade considerably on subsequent aircraft
The original c/s varied tremendously, depending on the lighting conditions. I believe it had some kind of "glitter" component in it that is now gone. The original was probably more expensive also.
Rikkus67 From Canada, joined Jun 2000, 802 posts, RR: 1 Reply 21, posted (1 year 11 months 3 weeks 4 days 14 hours ago) and read 3023 times:
IIRC, the glittery component was a fairly new painting technique (at least for aircraft). EVen when looking at 767-200 C-GDSP (formerly the polished metal)...it appears to me that the colour still has a bit of a metallic sheen.
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I too was thinking it may have been an interim measure, but just wanted to know for sure. 
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