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Username: Bushman
Posted 2008-05-13 03:37:45 and read 4719 times.
Hi everyone!
Recently I was looking for pictures of Thai Airways planes wearing new colors. I noticed one interesting thing.
The newly delivered planes in new colors, like B772 HS-TJS
Photo © Tek
or recently painted into new colors, like HS-TGH
Photo © Patrick Hilverda
have their horizontal stabilizers painted in regular grey color, the same as on the wings,
while planes wearing this livery for pretty long time, such as HS-TGO,
Photo © Chris Lofting
all A340-500s and 600s,
Photo © Pawarin Prapukdee
Photo © JKSC
A300s
Photo © JKSC
and B737s wearing new colors
Photo © Marcus Jellyman
have their horizontal stabilizers painted in purple.
I noticed also that one of their 777-300s in new colors had purple stabilizer in 2006
Photo © Jim Woodrow
and had it repainted to grey in the same year.
Photo © Sam Chui
My question is: Is it going to be a new standard for all TG planes or Boeings only and what's the reason for such a repaint?
Cheers,
Sergey
Username: NA
Posted 2008-05-13 04:29:56 and read 4582 times.
I don´t know but it looks far better with the purple stabilizers. Maybe one of those dreadful beancounters wants to save a few baht? Love to hate those guys.
Username: Cloudyapple
Posted 2008-05-13 05:01:04 and read 4490 times.
There's been no change. It's just the shiny horizontal stabilizer reflecting the purple on the tail. Nobody paints the wings or horizontal stabs apart from the white on Lufthansa wings.
Username: RicciPettit
Posted 2008-05-13 05:01:48 and read 4477 times.
Quoting Cloudyapple (Reply 2):
There's been no change. It's just the shiny horizontal stabilizer reflecting the purple on the tail. Nobody paints the wings or horizontal stabs apart from the white on Lufthansa wings.
Is this sarcasm? Bit hard to tell... to me it clearly looks like the stabs were painted.
Username: Sabenapilot
Posted 2008-05-13 05:10:15 and read 4441 times.
Quoting Cloudyapple (Reply 2):
Nobody paints the wings or horizontal stabs apart from the white on Lufthansa wings.
Some airlines do. Have a look at Brussels Airlines for instance!
Photo © Vinckbooms Kenny
Photo © Airwim
Although the latest addition to the fleet (OO-SSP) doesn't.
Photo © Paul Jongeneelen
Seems TG is not the only airline which has forgoten to mention to do their elevators too in the paintshop....
Username: Bushman
Posted 2008-05-13 06:55:41 and read 4251 times.
Quoting Cloudyapple (Reply 2):
There's been no change. It's just the shiny horizontal stabilizer reflecting the purple on the tail. Nobody paints the wings or horizontal stabs apart from the white on Lufthansa wings.
There can be no unpained wings or horizontal stabs. Paint is protection from environment and is very important. Maybe you meant that most airlines use light grey for them? Yes, most of them do, but not all
Username: NA
Posted 2008-05-13 07:24:28 and read 4186 times.
Quoting Cloudyapple (Reply 2):
There's been no change. It's just the shiny horizontal stabilizer reflecting the purple on the tail. Nobody paints the wings or horizontal stabs apart from the white on Lufthansa wings.
Look at the stabilzers of Hs-TGO, they´re purple, 100% sure, You can even see the paint peeling of at the leading edge. I´ve also seen several Thai aircraft in close-up. Maybe its the peeling that led to a decision to dispense with the purple paint on them.
Username: Bushman
Posted 2008-05-13 08:11:08 and read 4078 times.
Quoting NA (Reply 6):
Maybe its the peeling that led to a decision to dispense with the purple paint on them.
So they should use the same grey paint on vertical fin as well
Username: NewSwissair
Posted 2008-05-13 13:54:01 and read 3725 times.
The horizontal stabilizers are painted purple on every aircraft except the Boeing 777 models. There are some antennas and other things inside there (can't remember exactly what it was) and with the purple coat they had some problems. So they decided not to paint them on the 777. Maybe another airliners.net member can explain a bit more.
Username: Malaysia
Posted 2008-05-14 01:13:27 and read 3384 times.
BMI also paints its elevators too
Username: Mandala499
Posted 2008-05-14 03:50:48 and read 3073 times.
Quoting Cloudyapple (Reply 2):
Nobody paints the wings or horizontal stabs apart from the white on Lufthansa wings.
I wonder if S7 Airlines paint their horizontal stabs? Heck, I think these guys would paint the tires green if they could !
Username: EGNR
Posted 2008-05-14 05:47:28 and read 2849 times.
Quoting Cloudyapple (Reply 2):
Nobody paints the wings or horizontal stabs apart from the white on Lufthansa wings.
Quoting Malaysia (Reply 9):
BMI also paints its elevators too
bmi's excellent current livery features the horizontal stabiliser painted entirely red
Photo © Gabriel Widyna
S7 paints the wings and horizontal stabilisers on at least some of its 737s and TU-154s, but not on any of its Airbuses.
 Photo © Evteev Mikhail |  Photo © Andrei Pechenkin |
Username: EK413
Posted 2008-05-14 07:01:13 and read 2757 times.
Quoting Cloudyapple (Reply 2):
There's been no change. It's just the shiny horizontal stabilizer reflecting the purple on the tail. Nobody paints the wings or horizontal stabs apart from the white on Lufthansa wings.
It will appear TG have gone for the more conventional plain grey to save costs... and as for "Nobody" painting wings or horizontal stabs... S7 ring any bells...
Quoting RicciPettit (Reply 3):
Is this sarcasm? Bit hard to tell... to me it clearly looks like the stabs were painted.
I hope it sarcasm course it clearly has been painted purple on the earlier birds sporting the NEW scheme...
Quoting Sabenapilot (Reply 4):
Some airlines do. Have a look at Brussels Airlines for instance!
And it looks awesome... BMI that is...
EK413
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