Livery You Wish Was Not Retired

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Livery You Wish Was Not Retired

Mon Oct 17, 2005 7:46 am

On this aircraft in particular. Sleek and very African.


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The just don't do them like this anymore.


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RE: Livery You Wish Was Not Retired

Mon Oct 17, 2005 7:50 am

The LH livery of the 80s. Much better than the current one.
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RE: Livery You Wish Was Not Retired

Mon Oct 17, 2005 7:52 am


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The plane doesn't seem to like the new livery too, there is an old nose applied ... Big grin

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RE: Livery You Wish Was Not Retired

Mon Oct 17, 2005 2:50 pm

Quoting 787 (Thread starter):
The just don't do them like this anymore.

Sorry my friend, but the green 747 HAD to go. IMHO I thought that livery was degrading to such a beautiful machine. That particular bird now proudly wears brown for UPS. As for my vote, there is one paint job that should have been kept:

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RE: Livery You Wish Was Not Retired

Mon Oct 17, 2005 7:03 pm

Hi

IMHO this is one colour scheme that was degrading:-


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RE: Livery You Wish Was Not Retired

Mon Oct 17, 2005 8:05 pm

Quoting 787 (Thread starter):
On this aircraft in particular. Sleek and very African.

This looks too much like the apartheid flag coulours. The new coulours are certainly Eurowhite but the colorful tail and winglets give breath of fresh air for the airline of a mutlicultural nation

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Much nice than the current one !!!


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Tho I like the new one the old one was better to my eyes
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RE: Livery You Wish Was Not Retired

Tue Oct 18, 2005 12:25 am

LONG LIVE THE WIDGET:

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RE: Livery You Wish Was Not Retired

Tue Oct 18, 2005 12:40 am

Northwest Airlines "bowling shoe" and Orient colors  hissyfit 
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RE: Livery You Wish Was Not Retired

Tue Oct 18, 2005 3:41 am

ZS-SAJ , Ndizani


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Great loss , she is now painted white and waiting to be scrapped in a remote area in the middle of the field.

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RE: Livery You Wish Was Not Retired

Tue Oct 18, 2005 6:04 am

This was so nice, service excellent. But the management was too stupid to get it running:


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RE: Livery You Wish Was Not Retired

Tue Oct 18, 2005 7:25 am

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RE: Livery You Wish Was Not Retired

Tue Oct 18, 2005 10:54 am

Quoting DeltaGuy767 (Reply 6):
LONG LIVE THE WIDGET:

Amen Brother! The Widget rules Big grin
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RE: Livery You Wish Was Not Retired

Tue Oct 18, 2005 11:08 am

She's not gone yet.... but she will be missed when time comes...


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RE: Livery You Wish Was Not Retired

Tue Oct 18, 2005 9:57 pm

Old Ethiopian Airlines livery.

It was truly unique and timeless; IMHO it is a pity that they felt obliged to embrace a boring, generic Euro-white scheme.
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RE: Livery You Wish Was Not Retired

Tue Oct 18, 2005 10:16 pm

Exactly what DeltaGuy767 said! Big grin
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RE: Livery You Wish Was Not Retired

Wed Oct 19, 2005 4:14 am

Delta, Interim, 1997, Ron Allen...

British Airways Landor scheme.

America West!!!!!
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RE: Livery You Wish Was Not Retired

Wed Oct 19, 2005 9:57 am

Quoting Cactus739 (Reply 12):
She's not gone yet.... but she will be missed when time comes...

Boo!!! Personally I think HP's livery is quite boring, almost like AA's. But you are entitled to you're own opinion.

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RE: Livery You Wish Was Not Retired

Wed Oct 19, 2005 10:20 am

This one:

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Looks very nice on very loooong fuselages.
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RE: Livery You Wish Was Not Retired

Thu Oct 20, 2005 1:15 am

Quoting Cactus739 (Reply 12):
She's not gone yet.... but she will be missed when time comes...

If there's any consolation, there will be one A320 painted in US Airways-America West heritage livery.

One livery, I definitely wished that wasn't retired was NE's Yellowbird theme. Even though I was quite young at the time of the DL merger, I do remember seeing NE's well ahead of its time livery.


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Others:

TWA (final livery)

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Midway (final livery on the original)

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and Eastern (hockeystick livery, especially the white Whisperjet/liner livery)

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RE: Livery You Wish Was Not Retired

Thu Oct 20, 2005 1:24 am

Quoting DeltaGator (Reply 11):
Quoting DeltaGuy767 (Reply 6):
LONG LIVE THE WIDGET:

Amen Brother! The Widget rules Big grin

I couldn't have said better!
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RE: Livery You Wish Was Not Retired

Thu Oct 20, 2005 1:37 am


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RE: Livery You Wish Was Not Retired

Fri Oct 21, 2005 4:54 pm

Quoting HAJFlyer (Reply 13):
Old Ethiopian Airlines livery.

It was truly unique and timeless; IMHO it is a pity that they felt obliged to embrace a boring, generic Euro-white scheme.

True, but what you ahve ot remember is that the average passenger does not care about the livery. But what the average passenger looks at is how fresh, modern and clean a livery looks, and considering competition that ET is up against, it had to reinvent itself and that it is on with times. I guess what they have is more of a 'less is more' scheme. They had had the previous scheme since 1947.

Also consider the details that went into the old scheme, and the amount of time it would take to paint that up. Also the cost. The current livery is actually one of the boldest Euro-whites with the unique tail.
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RE: Livery You Wish Was Not Retired

Fri Oct 21, 2005 6:01 pm

For me it is this one,



Regards
Hmmmmm....
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RE: Livery You Wish Was Not Retired

Fri Oct 21, 2005 6:02 pm

Sorry I was unable to load up the image but here is the link,

https://www.airliners.net/open.file?i...&next_id=149278&tbl=COLORFUL_PAINT

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Hmmmmm....
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RE: Livery You Wish Was Not Retired

Fri Oct 21, 2005 9:39 pm

The original Star Alliance livery was cool. Not exactly pretty, but cool. Though nowadays they'd all have to buy 773s or A346s to be able to display all the members...

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RE: Livery You Wish Was Not Retired

Sat Oct 22, 2005 1:31 pm

These liveries. Bring back the colorful tails MX!!!

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RE: Livery You Wish Was Not Retired

Sat Oct 22, 2005 11:09 pm

I agree with the old Hapag LLoyd C/S. Another one I miss is this one:



Fortunately Condor got rid of the Thomas Cook name, now they need to remove this ugly tail logo!

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RE: Livery You Wish Was Not Retired

Sun Oct 23, 2005 4:59 am

There are lots of beautiful liveries above!

I will miss:

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I'm dreading seeing the new livery on the A330s (although as a spotter I know I'll still need to take some photos for the collection...) and I'm kind of glad the Tristars will never wear it!

As for classic liveries whose airlines are gone, the best has got to be

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Maybe Air Canada could borrow US Airways' idea and paint one or two of their planes in this 'heritage' livery...

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This livery just looked good on an A330!
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RE: Livery You Wish Was Not Retired

Sun Oct 23, 2005 5:34 am

Just a selection

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Just good!

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This would be a great livery for Belgiums national flag carrier!!

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Sad to see the airline go bankrupt and the a/c's turning into TUI colors (I hate everything in the TUI c/s)!!
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RE: Livery You Wish Was Not Retired

Mon Oct 24, 2005 10:37 am

I wish AA and IB would retire their liveries! Okay AA and IB fans, don't flame me for this but come on! They are so boring! It's time for a change.

Quoting DeltaGator (Reply 11):
Amen Brother! The Widget rules

Can't beat the widget. I sure do wish this livery was still around though:


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RE: Livery You Wish Was Not Retired

Mon Oct 24, 2005 11:26 am

I kinda miss seeing these day in, day out.


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RE: Livery You Wish Was Not Retired

Mon Oct 24, 2005 11:37 am

Varig's classic livery... I like the new one, but they used to have a B762 that kept the classic livery, and I actually got to fly on it once.... so nice  cloudnine 

But they retired all B762s.

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RE: Livery You Wish Was Not Retired

Mon Oct 24, 2005 6:45 pm

I love TWA's twin globe scheme,
But another fav is Eastern and Orignal United
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RE: Livery You Wish Was Not Retired

Mon Oct 24, 2005 6:52 pm

Just love this livery:

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RE: Livery You Wish Was Not Retired

Tue Oct 25, 2005 7:25 pm

Quoting Lordanmol (Reply 23):

I believe that livery would still be around had 9V-SPK not suffered a horrible death at the hands of a backhoe. She was a beauty!
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RE: Livery You Wish Was Not Retired

Fri Oct 28, 2005 9:48 am


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Simply because they were the first birds to take me to the great country on Canada! (GLA-MAN-YYZ [TriStar], YYZ-GLA [752])


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I like the slogan on the right hand side one...
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enzedder
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RE: Livery You Wish Was Not Retired

Mon Nov 07, 2005 10:35 pm

how about this one - just the best ever - very pacific! (hope the picture will appear, the first one i try to place.....)


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