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Delta MD-11 New Colors

Delta777-XXX From United States of America, joined Jun 2000, 1017 posts, RR: 8
Posted (12 years 5 months 3 weeks 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 1298 times:

Can someone explain this? Is there an MD-11 with new colors, or do they just paint the nose cones in advance? Could this nose cone possibly have come from another airplane, like the 767 or something??

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Delta777-XXX From United States of America, joined Jun 2000, 1017 posts, RR: 8
Reply 1, posted (12 years 5 months 3 weeks 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 1234 times:

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Photo © Chris Coduto

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sorry, I did it wrong

TWA From Iran, joined Sep 2010, 0 posts, RR: 0
Reply 2, posted (12 years 5 months 3 weeks 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 1220 times:

Hey Hank, I noticed that to. I think its a Nose Piece from a 767, or 777. I saw a New Colors Nose Piece on a Old Colors Delta Express 737-200 at MCO yesterday. It looked strange.

CYA HANK,
TWA

DL_Mech From United States of America, joined Feb 2000, 1769 posts, RR: 10
Reply 3, posted (12 years 5 months 3 weeks 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 1224 times:

Radome work is now outsourced, so I believe all of our spare radomes come in white....

It's not going to the Moon.....It's just going to California

Modesto2 From United States of America, joined Jul 2000, 2636 posts, RR: 6
Reply 4, posted (12 years 5 months 3 weeks 3 days 17 hours ago) and read 1207 times:

Could a 767 nose piece fit on an MD-11?

AA737-823 From United States of America, joined Mar 2000, 5386 posts, RR: 11
Reply 5, posted (12 years 5 months 3 weeks 3 days 16 hours ago) and read 1182 times:

NO- those radomes are not interchangeable.

the 707, 727, and 737 I think might be swapped, but since the 757/767/777/M11 have entirely different nose cones, they wouldn't fit at all.

But that leads one to wonder- how long will DL keep their MD-11s??? Long enough to repoint them in the new colors??? Gee, I hope so!!!

R

XFSUgimpLB41X From United States of America, joined Aug 2000, 3998 posts, RR: 36
Reply 6, posted (12 years 5 months 3 weeks 3 days 15 hours ago) and read 1164 times:

Probably just got a new nose piece...thats all.

Chicks dig winglets.

Delta777-XXX From United States of America, joined Jun 2000, 1017 posts, RR: 8
Reply 7, posted (12 years 5 months 3 weeks 3 days 3 hours ago) and read 1111 times:

I thought that the MD-11 and the 767 have use the same nose cones???

VASI From Germany, joined Aug 2000, 192 posts, RR: 0
Reply 8, posted (12 years 5 months 3 weeks 2 days 23 hours ago) and read 1082 times:

They definitely don´t use the 767 nose cone, as this isn´t approved by the CAA ant the FAA.
The only reason is, that this is simply a spare part, perhaps from the original manufacturer or from a spare part company or even from a different airline ( I guess World!). They´re usually painted in white.

Regards
VASI

CactusA319 From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 2918 posts, RR: 28
Reply 9, posted (12 years 5 months 3 weeks 2 days 22 hours ago) and read 1075 times:

Spare nosecones are usually painted white. You'll see that at a lot of other airlines too, not just DL.

CALPilot From United States of America, joined Oct 1999, 995 posts, RR: 14
Reply 10, posted (12 years 5 months 3 weeks 2 days 22 hours ago) and read 1072 times:

Do you people not read other posts before you give wrong answers. Gee...

A Delta mechanic give the answer to the question, and then everyone continues to bullshit the stuff.

Gosh read DL Mech.

And NO a B767 nose does NOT fit. Why would you think that? Duh...

Matt D From United States of America, joined Nov 1999, 9502 posts, RR: 51
Reply 11, posted (12 years 5 months 3 weeks 2 days 22 hours ago) and read 1055 times:

Sure, retro jets for each of the majors would look nice. We' all love to LOOK at them and PHOTOGRAPH them. But would that generate any new traffic? How many of you would actually FLY on it? Would the travlling public as a whole be wooed by that kind of program to warrant the cost of a one-off paint scheme?
I highly doubt it. And that's why you don't see more retro jets and why it's unlikely you'll see many more.

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