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Quoting LZ129 (Thread starter): Does anybody here have an explanation for this? |
Quoting BMI727 (Reply 1): Maybe it's just easier to paint the radome all one color. |
Quoting BMI727 (Reply 1): Maybe it's just easier to paint the radome all one color. |
Quoting BMI727 (Reply 6): Good catch. If not that, it may just be a variation between different paint shops. |
Quoting YYCSpotter (Reply 10): One other thing that I noticed, was the lack of naming of the aircraft. has LH stopped naming their aircraft? |
Quoting BMI727 (Reply 1): Maybe it's just easier to paint the radome all one color. |
Quoting horstroad (Reply 14): *I'm not sure if the term water line is correct, as the fuselage has a nose down orientation. on these aircraft, does the water line follow the stringer or is it parallel to the ground when the aircraft is on the ground? |
Quoting KC135TopBoom (Reply 15): Imagine how weird the tail will look when all those A-330s are painted into the new AA livery. |
Quoting reffado (Reply 18): Lufthansa just uses Helvetica on their logo, but I'm not sure what they used in the regs. |
Quoting reffado (Reply 18): Regardless of whether official change or not, there are few classier liveries out there than Lufthansa. Understated grace is there ever was. Bold tail and airline title, and that's all you need. |
Quoting twincessna340a (Reply 20): |
Quoting as739x (Reply 3): Is it just me, or in the first pic, doesn't it look like the gray under coat starts to slant up a little just behind the pitot tubes?? This could be the difference between the two. |
Quoting horstroad (Reply 19): I think the regs are still helvetica, but regular or medium instead of bold... there are so many variations of helvetica... |
Quoting KC135TopBoom (Reply 12): It looks line all they did was lower the waterline between the two colors, maybe by about 3" (76 mm). That way the radome is all white, at least on the A-333 and A-343. |
Quoting reffado (Reply 18): Lufthansa just uses Helvetica on their logo, but I'm not sure what they used in the regs. But I wouldn't be surprised if they changed the registration font to something following the DIN, but I don't see the point. Looks pretty readable now, and always has. |
Quoting horstroad (Reply 19): I think the regs are still helvetica, but regular or medium instead of bold... there are so many variations of helvetica... |
Quoting LZ129 (Reply 23): you will notice that a tiny bit of the radome is still painted grey - even with the new livery. If the radome issue was the cause of the change, wouldn't they have gone all the way and left it entirely white? Or am I seeing something that's not there and it actually is all white? |
Quoting na (Reply 24): You´ll see the waterline meets the wing leading edge still at the same height. |
Quoting na (Reply 11): That refers to most airplanes aquired in the past few years (except the fleet "flagships" A380s and 747-8s which all carry names). LH seems to be very slow with naming aircraft recently, although a few of the latest deliveries have names. Odd when so many names are free now that one third of the 737s have gone to the scrappers in the past one-and-a-half years. |
Quoting garpd (Reply 28): I don't think this is a deliberate change. To me. tt looks more like the job of masking off the grey and white areas on D-AIKE during painting was rushed. |
Quoting LZ129 (Reply 29): That is almost certainly incorrect. All but the last three A333 have the upward creep. Both the old and the new style seem to be deliberate. |
Quoting garpd (Reply 30): That doesn't mean the upward sweep was correct. Quality Control can fail at many levels. All other LH Aircraft seem to feature a level belly line. |