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Southwest Is Using Some Of My Pics  
User currently offline737doctor From United States of America, joined Mar 2001, 1332 posts, RR: 51
Posted (9 years 3 weeks 5 days 10 hours ago) and read 1540 times:

Flame away for self-promotion, I don't care...I just wanted to share a cool experience with the users here.

A couple of weeks ago, I got an email from someone who had seen my pictures here and asked if I was a Southwest employee. I replied that I was and I thought that was the end of it. Last week, the same guy contacted me identifying himself as a Southwest employee and asking permission to use a couple of my photos for a website he was designing about our new SWACOM (ACARS datalink) system. I told him that he could use them free of charge as long as he included a photo credit beneath each shot, which he did. He sent me a couple of links to the test pages he was working on and I liked what I saw, but unfortunately they are part of SWA's intranet and can't be accessed externally. The ironic thing is that I have been helping installing the ACARS modifications on some of our aircraft as they come into heavy check.

Anyway, I think that it's a high form of flattery to have my pictures used by the airline I work for and thought it was cool that they found them through Airliners.net.


Patrick Bateman is my hero.
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User currently offlineAA61hvy From United States of America, joined Nov 1999, 13954 posts, RR: 62
Reply 1, posted (9 years 3 weeks 5 days 10 hours ago) and read 1507 times:

That is real cool 737doctor. Can you share these pictures? I know the site is only for SWA people, but can you post the originals?


Go big or go home
User currently offline2912n From United States of America, joined Oct 2001, 2013 posts, RR: 10
Reply 2, posted (9 years 3 weeks 5 days 9 hours ago) and read 1451 times:

Flame away? hah! This is the best of self promotion. Congratulations. (It gets even better when someone wants to pay you for the shots!!)

User currently offlineRoyalDutch From United States of America, joined Mar 2001, 917 posts, RR: 3
Reply 3, posted (9 years 3 weeks 5 days 9 hours ago) and read 1424 times:

Congratulations...let's see the pics...

User currently offline737doctor From United States of America, joined Mar 2001, 1332 posts, RR: 51
Reply 4, posted (9 years 3 weeks 4 days 19 hours ago) and read 1242 times:

Thanks for the kind words guys.

Here the pics they used:


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This one is on the main page. The caption reads: N432WN - Recently delivered and equipped with a Mark III CMU from Honeywell.


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This one is on the FAQ page. Caption: N432WN - One of the SWA aircraft recently equipped with the datalink hardware.

I didn't ask for payment since Southwest is gracious enough to let me take the pictures and post them here. I have had a couple of other companies inquire about buying some of my photos, but we never came to an agreement.



Patrick Bateman is my hero.
User currently offlineFred From United States of America, joined Apr 2003, 11 posts, RR: 0
Reply 5, posted (9 years 3 weeks 1 day 10 hours ago) and read 1127 times:

Yes sir Doctor, Those are some beautiful photos. I have some picturs I took in Okc in the 80's when Southwest was still growing and leasing planes from just about everybody. Can you imagine SWA markings only on an Air Florida or Aer Lingus or TEA 737-200 or full SWA livery on a 727-200 leased from Peoples Express. As soon as I can get these scanned I will share them with you. Fred

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