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When Is DL Going To Finish Painting?

Flyinguy1 From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 52 posts, RR: 0
Posted (9 years 5 months 2 weeks 1 day 21 hours ago) and read 3261 times:

Does anyone know when Delta is going to finish painting all of their aircraft into the new scheme ("wavy gravy")? Is there a target date? When do they paint the aircraft? During maintenance checks? How many aircraft are left to paint (percentage of fleet already in new scheme)? I know these are a lot of questions, but I really want to know the status of the scheme transition.

The Magic City

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Wilax From United States of America, joined Jun 2002, 465 posts, RR: 3
Reply 1, posted (9 years 5 months 2 weeks 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 3092 times:

I don't have any of those answers, but I just wanted to chime in. I can't believe I still see that old 1970's scheme flying over my house. I even saw an MD90 at SNA in old colors. I would have argued that they didn't get any MD90's in that livery. The wavy-gravy came out in 1996 or 95, somewhere in there, I believe, so that would mean that they haven't repainted some aircraft in at least 7 years. Maybe they just spot-painted old aircraft where necessary in the old colors to save money...

Beats me...

DeltaMD11 From United States of America, joined Dec 2002, 1698 posts, RR: 38
Reply 2, posted (9 years 5 months 2 weeks 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 3080 times:

"Deltaflot" or "wavy Gravy" came out in 2000. The previous colors before those were the '97 Ron Allen colors, and then the widget scheme. And the aircraft are being re-painted as they go in for D-checks. There are are handful of jets still left in widget, and a fair amount left in '97 Ron Allen. As for exact numbers, that's beyond my scope.

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DeltaMD11 From United States of America, joined Dec 2002, 1698 posts, RR: 38
Reply 3, posted (9 years 5 months 2 weeks 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 3068 times:

And as for DL's MD-90's, they were delivered between 1995 and 1996-well within the scope of being painted into the widget scheme.

Too often we ... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy

IndustrialPate From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 4, posted (9 years 5 months 2 weeks 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 3062 times:

DL also painted several aircraft in the "Widget" c/s in the late 1990s...

HlywdCatft From United States of America, joined Jan 2001, 5321 posts, RR: 7
Reply 5, posted (9 years 5 months 2 weeks 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 3015 times:

I didnt think that there were any 767-300s still in the widget scheme, but I seen one at MCO a couple days back. I haven't seen too many widgets lately, other than the MD-90 from DFW that comes to MCO in the afternoon

CLEspotter From United States of America, joined Sep 2003, 43 posts, RR: 0
Reply 6, posted (9 years 5 months 2 weeks 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 3007 times:

33 ooc are left... That was the number from 2 weeks ago.

RockyRacoon From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 938 posts, RR: 0
Reply 7, posted (9 years 5 months 2 weeks 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 2994 times:

I think they should keep one of each aircraft in the widget livery just for shits and giggles. Let the lagacy live on. Wavy Gravy is decent though. Love it on the B757s and B732s but not too hot on the MD88s and MD90s.

Tim

HlywdCatft From United States of America, joined Jan 2001, 5321 posts, RR: 7
Reply 8, posted (9 years 5 months 2 weeks 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 2973 times:

Is there still that one 767-400 still painted in the 1997 color scheme? I could have sworn I seen that come in at MCO a couple weeks back.

InnocuousFox From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 2805 posts, RR: 16
Reply 9, posted (9 years 5 months 2 weeks 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 2967 times:

Among my collection on my comp from here, I have a picture from ATL where there are DLs in the frame with all 3 different liveries.

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GSPITNL From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 374 posts, RR: 4
Reply 10, posted (9 years 5 months 2 weeks 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 2924 times:

There are still a few 767's in the '97 Scheme and I saw 2 in widget scheme in ATL yesterday! All togther I saw 10-15 planes in the widget scheme yesterday!

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Dalmd88 From United States of America, joined Jul 2000, 2365 posts, RR: 15
Reply 11, posted (9 years 5 months 2 weeks 1 day 13 hours ago) and read 2717 times:

As of now there are 32 planes in the Widget scheme. Most are 737 which is what is being painted right now. There are also 8 MD-90 that are in Widget scheme. I don't know when they will be done.

For the One Millionth time, Delta does NOT strip and and paint each aircraft at 'D' check. During out heavy check they get touched up by brush. Full strip and paint gets done on a dedicated paint line that usually has nothing to do with heavy check. The 737-200 that are coming out of the desert are getting both at the same time. They are the only ones being done this way.

Aviatortj From United States of America, joined Jul 2003, 1838 posts, RR: 8
Reply 12, posted (9 years 5 months 2 weeks 1 day 13 hours ago) and read 2693 times:

I found an MD-80 on November 30th. {shameless plug ahead...}

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I missed the 732 a few days before that too.

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DeltaGuy From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 13, posted (9 years 5 months 2 weeks 1 day 13 hours ago) and read 2693 times:

I think I only saw 4-5 widgets today in ATL, it was around 10-ish. Saw a solid line of new c/s jets along one of the councourses today..was kinda nice, looked like the future to me! I did happen to see DL's first 777, still in the middle scheme.

There's still a healthy amount of Ron Allen schemes running around, they look alot less dated then the Widget.

I hope they leave one Widget as a retrojet Big thumbs up

If AA can do it, so can DL.

DeltaGuy

JeckPDX From United States of America, joined Nov 2003, 255 posts, RR: 1
Reply 14, posted (9 years 5 months 2 weeks 1 day 12 hours ago) and read 2656 times:

I am a big fan of the Ron Allen (partly beacuse it retains the cheatline, something rarely seen these days) scheme and dont undertsand why it was changed again after 3 yrs. The "wavy gravy" scheme is OK except for the engine cowls look like crap. They should either get the same treatment as the tail or a Delta logo of some kind but the way the sharply cut off dont match the grace of the tail.

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Leskova From Germany, joined Oct 2003, 6075 posts, RR: 72
Reply 15, posted (9 years 5 months 2 weeks 1 day 10 hours ago) and read 2588 times:

I guess they'll probably finish painting all their aircraft in the current scheme around the same time that Northwest retires the last DC9... of course, they'll probably already have two new color schemes by then... Big grin

Smile - it confuses people!

Jrlander From United States of America, joined Aug 1999, 1097 posts, RR: 0
Reply 16, posted (9 years 5 months 2 weeks 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 2482 times:

They are repainting the fleet on the normal repainting schedule. It will take a couple more years for all the aircraft to be repainted from the 1997 scheme. I think I heard late 2005.

Deltaffindfw From United States of America, joined Sep 2003, 1383 posts, RR: 1
Reply 17, posted (9 years 5 months 2 weeks 1 day 3 hours ago) and read 2330 times:

Widget, Ron Allen, Leo paint jobs. When will we see the new Grinstein paint job? Smile

FFlyer From United States of America, joined Nov 2001, 732 posts, RR: 0
Reply 18, posted (9 years 5 months 2 weeks 23 hours ago) and read 2239 times:

DALMd88; I think you mentioned a long time ago, that Delta is only allowed (by city?) to use one paint line out of three. For some environmental reasons. Do you think that DL might want to use all of them? I happen to sell technology, which would filter out all of the paint fumes of the return air system... You will get a good commission if you help me to sell this to Delta! You say that Delta doesn't have money for that? Sigh...I knew that.

Foxecho From United States of America, joined Dec 2000, 724 posts, RR: 19
Reply 19, posted (9 years 5 months 2 weeks 22 hours ago) and read 2203 times:

Aaah maybe its the antihistamines talking, but speaking of retrojets I'd love to see a Delta 777 painted in the old Convair 880 colors.. Gold and black.....

Smile/happy/getting dizzy

Andrew

..uh, we'll need that to live......

WGW2707 From United States of America, joined Aug 2003, 1197 posts, RR: 38
Reply 20, posted (9 years 5 months 2 weeks 20 hours ago) and read 2146 times:

You know, an "ultra-retro" look would be if they were to paint an aircraft in the 1920s livery used by their crop-dusting fleet. Smile

I personally prefer the timeless "widget" livery to the modern ones and I wish Delta had upgraded it rather than completely changing their corporate identity twice.

-WGW2707

WesternDC1010 From United States of America, joined Jul 2003, 320 posts, RR: 4
Reply 21, posted (9 years 5 months 2 weeks 20 hours ago) and read 2116 times:

The question SHOULD READ:

'When is DL Going To Finish Painting their CURRENT SCHEME?'

This 'Deltaflot' or 'Wavygravy' scheme looks like they rushed put the aircraft back into service before they could finish it properly. Also, the waves look like the aircraft snagged a polystyrene bag somewhere in flight and dragged it all over the place.

IMHO, It's too bare.

Just my .02 deposit.

- Ron
Western DC-10-10

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