747-600X From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 2734 posts, RR: 19 Reply 3, posted (12 years 2 months 2 days 3 hours ago) and read 429 times:
Yeah - I have to be completely honest when I say that it looks totaly grey to me. Until someone mentioned it on this forum, I actualy thought Virgin's paint was grey... intentionaly, I still don't see any sparkle in their silver.
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Blink182 From United States of America, joined Oct 1999, 5359 posts, RR: 22 Reply 6, posted (12 years 2 months 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 410 times:
american is bare metal polished up, virgin is silver paint.
i personally dont see why some one would put silver paint on there airplanes, it would save virgin a lot of money if they just left their planes bare metal(there is literally no difference in the color) i also like AA bare metal better because on newly polished or delivered planes, it looks awesome, just look at an AA 777, you will see my point
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Bacardi182 From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 1088 posts, RR: 2 Reply 7, posted (12 years 2 months 1 day 3 hours ago) and read 403 times:
i think AA has a copywrite on having a polished livery. other wise every airline would have the polished bare metal instead of the boring overused white c/s
747-600X From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 2734 posts, RR: 19 Reply 8, posted (12 years 2 months 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 399 times:
Doesn't Delta polish the bottoms of their aircraft? That was my impresion, they seem offaly shiny. I don't know, though, maybe AA has a copyright on full-fuselage shining... but that wouldn't make sence since the whole fuselage isn't polished.
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Matt D From United States of America, joined Nov 1999, 9502 posts, RR: 53 Reply 9, posted (12 years 2 months 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 398 times:
I find it highly unlikely that American can copyright the idea of NOT painting an aircraft. They can register the livery, but not the idea of painting vs not painting a plane.
USAir, Western, Piedmont, AccessAir, Western Pacific, Global International, Southwest, Frontier Horizon all had planes in their fleet that were polished aluminum.
I don't recall hearing anything about a copyright infringement.
Bacardi182 From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 1088 posts, RR: 2 Reply 10, posted (12 years 2 months 17 hours ago) and read 392 times:
maybe nobody polishes their aircraft because they dont want to be mestaken for an american airlines aircraft. thats why martinair holland changed their name to martin air because sometimes the terminal ramp would get in the way and the words would spell air holland, another carreir and competeter.
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