It's Sunday, so it must be time for some more airplane art. This week, it's a Qantas Airbus A380 - the first one delivered to their fleet - Nancy Bird Walton at London Heathrow Airport. This A380 was first of the fleet delivered to Qantas and named after one of the pioneers of Australian aviation - Nancy Bird Walton. This aircraft has had an interesting life, mainly it … [Read more...]
Airplane Art Extra: NokScoot’s first Boeing 777-200
NokScoot - the new Low Cost Carrier operated as a joint venture between NokAir (partially owned by Thai Airways) and Scoot (a Singapore Airlines subsidiary) have rolled out their first Boeing 777 painted in the combined operation colours... And... well. It has of lots of Scoot's colour scheme, with Nok's painted bird nose cone. The full bird - Image via NokScoot's … [Read more...]
Airplane Art Extra – United Airlines Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner
It's Wednesday, and it's time for some Airplane Art Extra. Quickly following behind the Air New Zealand Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner rolling out of the Boeing paint shop, another one has rolled out, this time in the markings of United Airlines. Images - United Airlines This aircraft - like the Air New Zealand Boeing 787-9 will be joining the test aircraft cadre being used to … [Read more...]
American Airlines decide which tail they like….
.... and have gone for the new tail that American started painting their planes into. New AA fails in the foreground - Shot at Dallas Fort Worth - Image GhettoIFE. AA 777-200ER at London Heathrow Airport in the new colours - Image GhettoIFE According to Flight, over 60,000 employees from American and US Airways (around 60% of the workforce) went for the new … [Read more...]
Airplane Art Extra – British Airways A380
It's Friday, and it's time for some Airplane Art Extra. Today's contribution is from British Airways as Airbus has rolled out the their first Airbus A380 in their house colours British Airways A380 - Image British Airways The paint job features the classic red, white and blue... and lots dots to create the Speedmarque and the Chatham Dockyard tail - over … [Read more...]
Airplane Art Extra – Scoot Boeing 777-200ER
It's Thursday evening and it's time for some extra Airplane Art (in fact, there's a lot extra than usual... must be that time of year) Anyway, Singapore Airlines Low Cost Carrier "Scoot" has got it's first bird painted up, ready for the big launch on the 4th June. Images - FlyScoot via Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/flyscoot Well, lets put it like … [Read more...]
Airplane Art Extra – British Airways A319 – FireFly
9 days of work and repainting... all for a flame. The Olympic Flame arrives in the United Kingdom as of a very short while ago. And British Airways Flight 2012 flown by FireFly (G-EUPC) - arrived at RNAS Culdrose, with the flame aboard. Images - BBC News via BBC iPlayer. And she's looking pretty, doing her job. The UK Olympic Torch Relay will … [Read more...]
British Airways prepares to bring home the Olympic Flame… with The Firefly
No, not the Joss Whedon series, but British Airways has painted up another plane to deliver the Olympic Flame from Greece to the United Kingdom - and they've painted an Airbus A319 in a complete different scheme to the Olympic Doves that have been flying around. Images - British Airways via Facebook And I like the colours. It suits the plane nicely for the … [Read more...]
