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Why Is This 743 In Half BA Colors?  
User currently offlinec5load From United States of America, joined Sep 2008, 917 posts, RR: 0
Posted (2 years 5 months 1 week 2 days 4 hours ago) and read 14987 times:		 Support Airliners.net - become a First Class Member!

This 743 for Orient Thai has the British Airways tail color scheme. Wouldn't this be considered illegal to have the same colors as another airline?



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User currently offlinedangould2000 From UK - Scotland, joined Dec 2005, 172 posts, RR: 0
Reply 1, posted (2 years 5 months 1 week 2 days 4 hours ago) and read 14935 times:

hardly, the full scheme is nowhere near close to being like BA c/s


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User currently onlineMexicana757 From United States of America, joined Apr 2001, 2958 posts, RR: 30
Reply 2, posted (2 years 5 months 1 week 2 days 4 hours ago) and read 14917 times:

The Orient Thai 743 has the flag of Thailand on their tail. And as you can see both tails are different, they don't look alike.

User currently offlineBA319-131 From United Kingdom, joined Jan 2001, 8267 posts, RR: 56
Reply 3, posted (2 years 5 months 1 week 2 days 4 hours ago) and read 14915 times:		 Support Airliners.net - become a First Class Member!

Quoting c5load (Thread starter):
This 743 for Orient Thai has the British Airways tail color scheme

- I kind of get what you say, but take another look, it's diffrerent enough that most won't be confused between the two.


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User currently offlinespacecadet From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 3251 posts, RR: 14
Reply 4, posted (2 years 5 months 1 week 1 day 21 hours ago) and read 14107 times:

It's just part of Orient Thai's "World Tails" program  


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User currently offlinespeedbird9 From United Kingdom, joined Jan 2008, 228 posts, RR: 0
Reply 5, posted (2 years 5 months 1 week 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 13062 times:

Quoting dangould2000 (Reply 1):
hardly, the full scheme is nowhere near close to being like BA c/s

I do see where he is coming from the first time I saw a an Orient Thai aircraft I mistoke it for a BA 743 in a kinda hybrid c/s


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User currently offlineRubberJungle From United Kingdom, joined Jan 2010, 288 posts, RR: 0
Reply 6, posted (2 years 5 months 1 week 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 12580 times:

Less of a rip-off, I'd suggest, than a certain other airline:

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles...ows-off-near-identical-livery.html

User currently offlineAirbusA6 From United Kingdom, joined Apr 2005, 1912 posts, RR: 0
Reply 7, posted (2 years 5 months 1 week 1 day 14 hours ago) and read 12277 times:

At a distance, you can almost imagine that the Orient Thai 743 has a kind of speedbird near the front  


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User currently offlineDoona From Sweden, joined Feb 2005, 3707 posts, RR: 14
Reply 8, posted (2 years 5 months 1 week 1 day 13 hours ago) and read 11494 times:

Quoting RubberJungle (Reply 6):
Less of a rip-off, I'd suggest,

I'd say it hard to call it a rip-off at all, considering that it the freaking flag of Thailand.

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User currently offlineMIAspotter From Spain, joined Nov 2001, 2274 posts, RR: 26
Reply 9, posted (2 years 5 months 1 week 1 day 13 hours ago) and read 10827 times:

Quoting RubberJungle (Reply 6):
Less of a rip-off, I'd suggest, than a certain other airline

OMG! total ripoff! they didn't even tried to make it slightly different! just the bird on the tail being smaller... maybe this Paraguayan Airline hired a Chinese Image Company... Lingdor maybe? (Landor) 

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User currently offlineeldanno From Canada, joined Jun 2009, 61 posts, RR: 0
Reply 10, posted (2 years 5 months 1 week 1 day 11 hours ago) and read 9278 times:

No eyebrows on the Paraguayan 732s either...

User currently offlinemalaysia From United States of America, joined Nov 1999, 3185 posts, RR: 0
Reply 11, posted (2 years 5 months 1 week 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 7195 times:

And I remember how they painted the tail on some of those OX 747s, they used bamboo scaffoldings and just painted it outside on the cargo apron at Don Muang with paint rollers.


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User currently offlinehomsar From United States of America, joined Jan 2010, 804 posts, RR: 0
Reply 12, posted (2 years 5 months 1 week 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 6601 times:

Quoting BA319-131 (Reply 3):
- I kind of get what you say, but take another look, it's diffrerent enough that most won't be confused between the two.

I guess it depends on your definition of "most."

I'd guess that most folks (being your general public, not aviation buffs) wouldn't even notice the tails or how they're painted.

Of those that do, it is really easy to see one tail and confuse it with the other. It's really only when you see the two side-by-side that you can easily spot the differences. Folks who don't know what the Thai flag looks like would probably be even more confused.


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User currently offlinePillowTester From United States of America, joined Nov 2004, 243 posts, RR: 0
Reply 13, posted (2 years 5 months 1 week 1 day 7 hours ago) and read 6000 times:

Being vaguely similar does not make it "the same."


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User currently offlinegunsontheroof From United States of America, joined Jan 2006, 3462 posts, RR: 11
Reply 14, posted (2 years 5 months 1 week 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 3299 times:

Quoting homsar (Reply 12):
I guess it depends on your definition of "most."

I'd guess that most folks (being your general public, not aviation buffs) wouldn't even notice the tails or how they're painted.

Of those that do, it is really easy to see one tail and confuse it with the other. It's really only when you see the two side-by-side that you can easily spot the differences. Folks who don't know what the Thai flag looks like would probably be even more confused.

I strongly suspect that the vast majority of the flying public would be unable to identify the BA livery OR the flag of Thailand if asked to do so. As others have stated, the similarity between the two isn't that strong. The case of Gulf Air v.s. Paraguay however...


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