Wexfordflyer From Ireland, joined Jun 2009, 202 posts, RR: 0 Reply 4, posted (4 months 4 days ago) and read 27516 times:
I think it looks great, I think simple like this is what looks best on the 380. I know theres none very colourful yet but I dont think overly colourful will suit it. Personally I think it will look best in LH colours so cannot wait to see that.
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2H4 From United States, joined Oct 2004, 8075 posts, RR: 64 Reply 10, posted (4 months 4 days ago) and read 27384 times:
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I think it looks miserable. I don't think liveries should be overly elaborate or gaudy, but Eurowhite liveries display an incredible lack of creativity. Airlines using them have missed an opportunity to effectively differentiate their brand.
Danfearn77 From United Kingdom (England), joined Jul 2008, 1219 posts, RR: 12 Reply 13, posted (4 months 3 days 23 hours ago) and read 27230 times:
Quoting Wexfordflyer (Reply 4): I think it looks great, I think simple like this is what looks best on the 380. I know theres none very colourful yet but I dont think overly colourful will suit it. Personally I think it will look best in LH colours so cannot wait to see that.
I think the Thai livery would look amazing on the A380, if they ever get it! I love plain and simple but i think the TG livery is fantastic.
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Golfradio From Canada, joined Jun 2009, 234 posts, RR: 0 Reply 15, posted (4 months 3 days 23 hours ago) and read 26890 times:
Quoting Luckyone (Reply 8):
Quoting 2H4 (Reply 1):
It may be completely covered in paint, but "full colors" is a bit of a stretch when describing a Eurowhite livery...
I had a similar thought when I read the thread title: "Isn't white the complete absence of color???"
Quoting Wexfordflyer (Reply 11): Ah but white is a colour, just a very common one. Sorry, I'm being pedantic Smile
Actually if you mix all the primary colors you get white. So in a sense it is "full colors"
I like it. The plain white suits the A380. Imagine it in this livery
Racko From Germany, joined Nov 2001, 3778 posts, RR: 20 Reply 16, posted (4 months 3 days 22 hours ago) and read 26584 times:
Form always follows function. Aircraft are designed with the nose that at the time of the design was in their developers opinion the best shape for it. Sometimes we end up with great designs (757, Concorde), sometimes with good ones (A330&A340, DC10, 777), some look good and bad, depending on the angle (A350, 787) and sometimes they are just plain ugly (A380, 737).
I actually kinda like the A320-nose. Nothing fancy, looks business. Fits a short-haul working bee.
Sparky35805 From United States, joined Dec 2007, 116 posts, RR: 0 Reply 17, posted (4 months 3 days 21 hours ago) and read 26415 times:
What is wrong with the classic boeing nose?
I have never seen an ugly airplane.Some look much better than others,but if its an airplane I like something about it.Not everything can be a Super Connie with tip tanks.
Sparky
Pellegrine From United States, joined Mar 2007, 1107 posts, RR: 1 Reply 20, posted (4 months 3 days 19 hours ago) and read 25525 times:
I think it's just gorgeous. A natural progression of their previous livery. I didn't fully appreciate it on the 77W; however, now seeing the A388 I see why they went the direction they did. The Eurowhite carriers go for subtlety and timelessness and it works for them.
Quoting Ikramerica (Reply 21): The absence of all pigment on a surface is clear.
Hate to nitpick, but only if your surface media is clear.
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Trigged From United States, joined Mar 2005, 151 posts, RR: 0 Reply 21, posted (4 months 3 days 19 hours ago) and read 25497 times:
Quoting 2H4 (Reply 10): I think it looks miserable. I don't think liveries should be overly elaborate or gaudy, but Eurowhite liveries display an incredible lack of creativity. Airlines using them have missed an opportunity to effectively differentiate their brand.
2H4
+1
To me, it looks like the Air France letterhead on a blank sheet of paper.
JAAlbert From United States, joined Jan 2006, 585 posts, RR: 1 Reply 25, posted (4 months 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 24969 times:
I like the livery. New airplanes always look so fresh and sleek. I agree the 380's nose leaves a bit desired.
So where does airfrance intend on flying this new bird?
26 Afterburner: I don't understand. Why, in almost every thread about A380, are there at least one post commenting how ugly this bird is? Do we need this continuous m
27 AeroplaneFreak: People are reporting that it is MSN040. http://a380production.com/2009/07/09/5-2/
28 Flood: If you want to effectively differentiate your brand, I'd suggest you rather focus more on service than colorful aircraft. At the end of the day, the
29 Afterburner: ... and how beautiful/ugly the aircraft are.
30 Ikramerica: Nope. If you lay down a "base" onto a surface that has no pigment, that base will be clear. The surface will be whatever, but the base will be clear.
31 Mariner: Odd. I flew on a Boeing Stratocruiser and thought the nose suited the aircraft perfectly. Just as I do with the A380. Each to their own. I think the
32 Pellegrine: Well I thought we were talking color theory not physical paint. In theory, the study of, a color is just that no matter what it's presented on. Yes p
33 Chuchoteur: http://kaktusdigital.blogspot.com/ ... looks like the Boeing design guys found it difficult to make a good looking nose on a double-decker too... make
34 LMML 14/32: Completely agreed. Aircraft with a wingspan longer than the fuselage are ugly. Apart from this the 380 has a really ugly frontal look - one that only
35 Solnabo: . Wooow, the Moby Dick of the skies! Sorry, couldn´t resist //Mike
36 Sebolino: Errrrr no. In fact white is the mix of all existing colors.
37 Kiwiandrew: It is a beautiful sight and hopefully a boost to the morale of the employees at AF at a time when they could really do with one . Although I am not us
38 NA: The "new" AF livery fits the new fleet flagship much better than other types, at least it looks good in comparison with the 77W which is indeed a bare
39 Maxter: My first post here... Long time lurker. Beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder. During QF's only 380 visit to PER I was lucky enough to be standin
40 Tropical: As it has been said many times before, airlines do not care one iota about the looks of an airplane so long as it is efficient. Unfortunately aircraft
41 Astuteman: I can't think of a finer way to open your posting account at A-net! I'm firmly in that camp - I think they're ALL great.. Welcome aboard Rgds
42 NA: Thank god the laws of aerodynamics prevent airplanes to be really ugly (those few aircarft who were really ugly, werent very aerodynamic). Its all re
43 EPA001: Well spoken. I like the almost all-white AF A380 (the Great White ). But I cannot wait to see the A380 in the beautiful colors of KE!
44 NA: Thats because the cockpit is placed too low. It must be up there like on a 747 to look "sharp", otherwise a doubledecker will always suffer from havi
45 TN486: G'day mate, welcome, happy posting! Can you get real close to the threshhold in PER?? (have not been to PER since 1987).
46 Alitalia744: The aircraft looks great in AF's "livery." Altho I prefer AFs old livery, but that's old news.
47 WA707atMSP: I still think the best scheme on the A380 would have been Braniff's "jellybean" scheme. Imagine a lineup of A380s in orange, red, turquoise, yellow, a
48 Helvknight: As it's AF shouldn't it actually be "eurogrey"?
49 NA: That would have been nice, yes. Its so sad no one has ever followed up with a similar design idea, which imho was one of the best livery ideas of all
50 Shankly: No such word as Airfrance in the English language I have to say when I first saw the Air gap France colour scheme in the 70's as a teenage spotter on
51 2H4: I still think they should have placed the APU above and slightly behind the flight deck. That way, the venting exhaust would resemble a blowhole. "Eu
52 NA: Which is a myth not reflecting the reality. You dont see "white" schemes more in Europe than anywhere else.
53 Pnwtraveler: Oh that made my morning. The EK A380 still attracts huge crowds at YYZ despite being in service for quite a few weeks. It is an impressive bird. Beca
54 NA: Thats amazing, isnt it. Makes even the 77W or A330s sound like noisy old tractors.
55 Virginblue4: Wow! This looks absolutely beautiful! Jordan
56 WA707atMSP: The first two major airlines to adopt the all white fuselage were Air France and UTA, and airlines in Europe switched to all white schemes earlier th
58 Braybuddy: I was initially sceptical about the new Air France colours and would have preferred them to go for something innovative, but seeing them here on the A
59 YULWinterSkies: Agreed. Yet, in the specific case of AF (and UTA), the eurowhite was creative as they were the forst airlines to introduce it. Too bad they haven't p
60 EI787: Please - no more references to Air France and the cleanliness of their planes. This has been discussed many times before. Let's not bring it up once a
62 B777Neuss: One picture with nose. source www.aero.de
63 777way: Another one of those change for the sake of change liveries, previous one was perfect.
64 2H4: The markings look temporary. Almost as though they are planning to sell the aircraft to another airline and are purposely making an effort to ease th
65 OA260: True it does look very bare although its nice . Maybe they should add something to it.
66 Braybuddy: Yep, a large, light grey "Crevette" would look great on the fuselage.
67 EcuadorianMD11: According to his article AF will only get their claws on this plane in October! What´s taking so long? Well said, I´m a fan of companies like KLM /
68 Vega9000: One thing that I noticed on all A380's is that the liveries look too small for the size of the aircraft. You see it here, and on SQ as well. View Larg
69 Huaiwei: Oh but CO has a grey belly and cheatline, SQ has a cheatline, BA has a blue belly, LH has a light grey belly, and QF has an "extended tail" (ok that'
70 TN486: QANTAS - Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services
71 Danfearn77: Well said. The A380 is a challenging aircraft but i think some simple liveries look good on it. Personally i love this AF one. However, i reckon the
73 2H4: The thing to do with the A380 is add shapes and lines that de-emphasize the bulbous aspects of the design. One way to do this is to visually raise th
74 DL752: I agree. Even though the aircraft is white from the second floor down I still love it! When a huge plane like the A380 is in a Eurowhite livery it al
75 Ssublyme: AirFrance has announced it's first destination with the A380 will be NY. So looks like NY gets the A380 back vs. Toronto(EK) & Montreal getting A380 s
76 Maxter: Thanks TN, when the big bird came to PER, she parked to one side of the international terminal (T1?). I wish I knew how to post thumbnails, I have a
77 JFernandez: Gosh, any idea how much all that paint weighs?
78 EcuadorianMD11: Emphasizing on a typing error hardly answers the dull Qantas design question! Fair enough........I don´t argue with that! But when I read between th
80 WingedMigrator: 600 to 1000 kg. http://www.airbus.com/en/presscentre...ems/07_04_11_A380_first_paint.html
81 DocLightning: Maybe that's because... Now, would someone go to their branding department and point out that AIR FRANCE has a space in it?
82 Maxter: Wow, she may not be a beauty in the classical sense of the aviation related word, but it's hard to deny she looks majestic, even imposing. Thanks for
83 Mpsrent: Well, it certainly is clean. I realize that this is a difficult aircraft to create a strong artistic impact on but I feel this "clean" design is almos
85 EcuadorianMD11: Anybody any idea? Cheers, Ecuadoran MD11.
86 Ikramerica: 1. Lack of desire of AF to get it, or any other aircraft, sooner. 2. Lack of desire of Airbus to increase staffing levels needed to get aircraft out
87 LifelinerOne: If I recall correctly Air France doesn't want an "orphan" plane for a long time in the fleet. So, they decided to get two A380's in a rather quick su
88 Ikramerica: That makes sense, too. But they will need some time to route prove and get the crews up to speed, so having one is fine for this. And they only need
89 LifelinerOne: Well, it's not that they will receive two A380's in Q4 on the same day. They will be some weeks apart, so the first one will do the proving. They jus
90 EcuadorianMD11: Okay, that makes sense............. So what, Airbus works "day shift only"........to bide some time!? Ecuadorian MD11
91 Alphaomega: The lack of the space between Air and France is intentional - its supposed to be part of their new identity and one of the AF guys explained it to me
92 Aircellist: Would venture it has to do with internet adress...
93 Time2lyme: Enjoy the photo guys.... That's probably the last time we'll see it looking so CLEAN he he
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