Your favorite Airline livery - Page 2

Sprint100 · June 26th, 2003, 22:39

I like Delta's scheme alot and Northwest's scheme on the heavies. What can I say, I'm a plain jane type of guy.

Adriano · June 27th, 2003, 01:25

When you and others say you like Northwest's livery . . . are you referring to the old red/gray livery, or the new plane silver livery? Just curious. I didn't like Northwest's new livery at all at first, but now it's starting to grow on me.

Old (Click here for larger image) :

New (Click here for larger image) :

Captain_Bob · June 27th, 2003, 01:34

Anybody ever notice....

Northwest's symbol is a circle signifying a compass rose with a marker pointing... Northwest....

But on the other side of the plane... the image is reversed and it is pointing... Northeast...

OK... It's late, and yes... I have nothing better to do.

Bob

Sprint100 · June 27th, 2003, 01:34

The old red and gray!!!!!!!!!!. Forgot it changed, that's how much I like the old style. The new paint scheme is O.K., maybe it proves as a financial improvement for Northwest, but nowhere near a visual improvement

gay_pilot18 · June 27th, 2003, 01:43

Well I might be bias but I love Delta's new colors man are the sweet. And I like Northwest new simple grayish/silver and red colors but the engines should have been painted red or something stead of just a simple silver/gray color.

Also the new JAL scheme is wicked sweet. But AA man does it suck sorry it's so boring and plain and I just hate it they have no identitiy no character.

MikeD · June 27th, 2003, 05:49

Braniff orange.

PSA with a smiley face on the nose.

H46Bubba · June 27th, 2003, 08:51

I'm more preferential to the bare metal schemes. American, the old US Air 1990's scheme and my favorite is the Piedmont Airlines interum US Air merger scheme.

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/203149/M/

ready2fly · June 27th, 2003, 09:07

I'm with Smokey. GIve me the old school Delta scheme any day!

....and the doo doo brown & orange thing....

Ditto.

sbe · June 27th, 2003, 09:15

TWA's last livery, before they scraped all the paint off and made them silver.

Very elegant.

davetheflyer · June 27th, 2003, 11:08

My favorite is the AA polished metal. Close seconds are DAL and BA. Jetblue also looks good. I really like light colors on airplanes.

For a splash of color, Virgin is good. I like the nose art and the slogans painted on the side of Virgin aircraft (such as "more experience than our name suggests").

Some of my least favorites are UAL, USAir, and, at the bottom of the list, Southwest. All of these carriers use dark colors.

davetheflyer · June 27th, 2003, 11:16

Two I forgot to mention are Song (OK, stupid name, but the airplanes look cool) and the Air Canada Jazz CRJs with the colorful leaf motif.

I've also heard that if you look at the rippling flag on the tail of Delta just right, that you can see a skull. I assume it's an optical illusion like when people saw Jesus in a plate of spaghetti on a billboard in Atlanta a few years back (although I did see that).

Mahesh · June 27th, 2003, 13:08

I agree that the Air Canada RJs look cool! But have you noticed how dirty that are. Must be because they are WHite. They fly over Waxpool Rd. Which is just north of the Dulles International Airport. You can see the black on the underside.

Mahesh

Joe · June 27th, 2003, 17:57

Speaking of the Air Canada Jazz RJ's, I saw a photo on airliners.net of a Jazz CRJ taking off from DFW...

That trip has got to be torture in a small thing like that.

They're called "regional" jets for a reason!

Adriano · June 27th, 2003, 18:37

[ QUOTE ]
Anybody ever notice....

Northwest's symbol is a circle signifying a compass rose with a marker pointing... Northwest....

But on the other side of the plane... the image is reversed and it is pointing... Northeast...

[/ QUOTE ]
They never use to, that just started with the new livery they got. It's just one of the reason's I'm not a big fan of the new livery. Also, I always thought it was clever how the apostrophe in the old logo pointed to the northwest while at the same time transforming the "N" in their logo to a "W" so that it could be read as both an N and W. See below.

Old NWA tail logo:

Click here for a larger image.

aviator · June 27th, 2003, 19:22

I'm a big fan of the bare metal scheme as well. I remember an old grizzly DE commenting on how he liked airplanes with no paint....

"Son, an airplane is a lot like a women....they both look best au' natural"

Center_Mid · June 27th, 2003, 19:26

Watching a BA 747 on approach into SEA, I can only think of two words: all class.

Tie for second goes to SAS and USAir.

Boltonpilot · June 27th, 2003, 20:42

I think my faveorite livery is America West's colors, and U.S. Airways. ATA is cool too.

[image]http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=373206&WxsIERv=QWlyYnVzIEEzMTktMTMy&W dsYXMg=QW1lcmljYSBXZXN0IEFpcmxpbmVz&QtODMg=Q2xldmV sYW5kIC0gSG9wa2lucyBJbnRlcm5hdGlvbmFsIChDTEUgLyBLQ 0xFKQ%3D%3D&ERDLTkt=VVNBIC0gT2hpbw%3D%3D&ktODMp=Sn VuZSA4LCAyMDAz&BP=1&WNEb25u=U2FtIFNvbGhkb29zdA%3D% 3D&xsIERvdWdsY=TjgyOEFX&MgTUQtODMgKE=&YXMgTUQtODMg KERD=NzM%3D&NEb25uZWxs=MjAwMy0wNi0yNQ%3D%3D&static =yes[/image]

Snow · June 27th, 2003, 23:49

[ QUOTE ]
I think the two coolest are USAirways and United's. I like the dark colors they have, although that must be a bitch to work on in the summer since it gets so hot! But they just look cool.

[/ QUOTE ]

Yeah I like United's scheme too, white is so boring.. yeck

Scorpio11982 · June 29th, 2003, 09:54

American Airlines all the way !!

I still remember the commercial In the early 90's with the theme " Something Special in the Air " ( Then the sun glares across it's Polished airframe

)

God I loved that Commercial !!!

mastermags · June 29th, 2003, 10:42

Ill have to agree with chrisnj17 on Continental's scheme.... it looks best on a narrow body.

Mavmb · June 29th, 2003, 11:09

Like Hooters plane with picture of girl on rudder. Oungga Boonga.

Joe · June 29th, 2003, 11:12

[ QUOTE ]
Like Hooters plane with picture of girl on rudder. Oungga Boonga.

[/ QUOTE ]

Hooters Air should do something like Frontier; a different hot chick on each tail...

June 26th, 2003, 22:39	#26
Sprint100 Old Skool Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: In my Cozy garage Posts: 6,272	Re: Your favorite Airline livery I like Delta's scheme alot and Northwest's scheme on the heavies. What can I say, I'm a plain jane type of guy.

June 27th, 2003, 01:25	#27
Adriano Newbie Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Minneapolis, MN (Fly out of STP) Posts: 29	Re: Your favorite Airline livery When you and others say you like Northwest's livery . . . are you referring to the old red/gray livery, or the new plane silver livery? Just curious. I didn't like Northwest's new livery at all at first, but now it's starting to grow on me. Old (Click here for larger image) : New (Click here for larger image) :

June 27th, 2003, 01:34	#28
Captain_Bob Old Skool Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: DFW, based back in EWR, wishing I was in Maine Posts: 3,944	Re: Your favorite Airline livery Anybody ever notice.... Northwest's symbol is a circle signifying a compass rose with a marker pointing... Northwest.... But on the other side of the plane... the image is reversed and it is pointing... Northeast... OK... It's late, and yes... I have nothing better to do. Bob

June 27th, 2003, 01:34	#29
Sprint100 Old Skool Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: In my Cozy garage Posts: 6,272	Re: Your favorite Airline livery The old red and gray!!!!!!!!!!. Forgot it changed, that's how much I like the old style. The new paint scheme is O.K., maybe it proves as a financial improvement for Northwest, but nowhere near a visual improvement

June 27th, 2003, 01:43	#30
gay_pilot18 Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Cincinnati/Mason OH. (CVG) Posts: 241	Re: Your favorite Airline livery Well I might be bias but I love Delta's new colors man are the sweet. And I like Northwest new simple grayish/silver and red colors but the engines should have been painted red or something stead of just a simple silver/gray color. Also the new JAL scheme is wicked sweet. But AA man does it suck sorry it's so boring and plain and I just hate it they have no identitiy no character.

June 27th, 2003, 05:49	#31
MikeD Administrator Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Pinal Airpark Posts: 6,897	Re: Your favorite Airline livery Braniff orange. PSA with a smiley face on the nose.

June 27th, 2003, 08:51	#32
H46Bubba Old Skool Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: CVG Posts: 4,465	Re: Your favorite Airline livery I'm more preferential to the bare metal schemes. American, the old US Air 1990's scheme and my favorite is the Piedmont Airlines interum US Air merger scheme. http://www.airliners.net/open.file/203149/M/

June 27th, 2003, 09:07	#33
ready2fly Old Skool Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: DFW Posts: 7,373	Re: Your favorite Airline livery I'm with Smokey. GIve me the old school Delta scheme any day! ....and the doo doo brown & orange thing.... Ditto.

June 27th, 2003, 09:15	#34
sbe Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: KC Posts: 540	Re: Your favorite Airline livery TWA's last livery, before they scraped all the paint off and made them silver. Very elegant.

June 27th, 2003, 11:08	#35
davetheflyer Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: KATL, Georgia, Tennessee Posts: 1,016	Re: Your favorite Airline livery My favorite is the AA polished metal. Close seconds are DAL and BA. Jetblue also looks good. I really like light colors on airplanes. For a splash of color, Virgin is good. I like the nose art and the slogans painted on the side of Virgin aircraft (such as "more experience than our name suggests"). Some of my least favorites are UAL, USAir, and, at the bottom of the list, Southwest. All of these carriers use dark colors.

June 27th, 2003, 11:16	#36
davetheflyer Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: KATL, Georgia, Tennessee Posts: 1,016	Re: Your favorite Airline livery Two I forgot to mention are Song (OK, stupid name, but the airplanes look cool) and the Air Canada Jazz CRJs with the colorful leaf motif. I've also heard that if you look at the rippling flag on the tail of Delta just right, that you can see a skull. I assume it's an optical illusion like when people saw Jesus in a plate of spaghetti on a billboard in Atlanta a few years back (although I did see that).

June 27th, 2003, 13:08	#37
Mahesh Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Northern Hemisphere Posts: 1,370	Re: Your favorite Airline livery I agree that the Air Canada RJs look cool! But have you noticed how dirty that are. Must be because they are WHite. They fly over Waxpool Rd. Which is just north of the Dulles International Airport. You can see the black on the underside. Mahesh

June 27th, 2003, 17:57	#38
Joe Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Warwick, RI Posts: 538	Re: Your favorite Airline livery Speaking of the Air Canada Jazz RJ's, I saw a photo on airliners.net of a Jazz CRJ taking off from DFW... That trip has got to be torture in a small thing like that. They're called "regional" jets for a reason!

June 27th, 2003, 18:37	#39
Adriano Newbie Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Minneapolis, MN (Fly out of STP) Posts: 29	Re: Your favorite Airline livery [ QUOTE ] Anybody ever notice.... Northwest's symbol is a circle signifying a compass rose with a marker pointing... Northwest.... But on the other side of the plane... the image is reversed and it is pointing... Northeast... [/ QUOTE ] They never use to, that just started with the new livery they got. It's just one of the reason's I'm not a big fan of the new livery. Also, I always thought it was clever how the apostrophe in the old logo pointed to the northwest while at the same time transforming the "N" in their logo to a "W" so that it could be read as both an N and W. See below. Old NWA tail logo: Click here for a larger image.

June 27th, 2003, 19:22	#40
aviator Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Posts: 385	Re: Your favorite Airline livery I'm a big fan of the bare metal scheme as well. I remember an old grizzly DE commenting on how he liked airplanes with no paint.... "Son, an airplane is a lot like a women....they both look best au' natural"

June 27th, 2003, 19:26	#41
Center_Mid Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 213	Re: Your favorite Airline livery Watching a BA 747 on approach into SEA, I can only think of two words: all class. Tie for second goes to SAS and USAir.

June 27th, 2003, 20:42	#42
Boltonpilot Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: OH Posts: 161	Re: Your favorite Airline livery I think my faveorite livery is America West's colors, and U.S. Airways. ATA is cool too. [image]http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=373206&WxsIERv=QWlyYnVzIEEzMTktMTMy&W dsYXMg=QW1lcmljYSBXZXN0IEFpcmxpbmVz&QtODMg=Q2xldmV sYW5kIC0gSG9wa2lucyBJbnRlcm5hdGlvbmFsIChDTEUgLyBLQ 0xFKQ%3D%3D&ERDLTkt=VVNBIC0gT2hpbw%3D%3D&ktODMp=Sn VuZSA4LCAyMDAz&BP=1&WNEb25u=U2FtIFNvbGhkb29zdA%3D% 3D&xsIERvdWdsY=TjgyOEFX&MgTUQtODMgKE=&YXMgTUQtODMg KERD=NzM%3D&NEb25uZWxs=MjAwMy0wNi0yNQ%3D%3D&static =yes[/image]

June 27th, 2003, 23:49	#43
Snow Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Atlanta, GA Posts: 870	Re: Your favorite Airline livery [ QUOTE ] I think the two coolest are USAirways and United's. I like the dark colors they have, although that must be a bitch to work on in the summer since it gets so hot! But they just look cool. [/ QUOTE ] Yeah I like United's scheme too, white is so boring.. yeck

June 29th, 2003, 09:54	#44
Scorpio11982 Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: NYC Posts: 186	Re: Your favorite Airline livery American Airlines all the way !! I still remember the commercial In the early 90's with the theme " Something Special in the Air " ( Then the sun glares across it's Polished airframe ) God I loved that Commercial !!!

June 29th, 2003, 10:42	#45
mastermags Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Atlanta, Ga Posts: 1,311	Re: Your favorite Airline livery Ill have to agree with chrisnj17 on Continental's scheme.... it looks best on a narrow body.

June 29th, 2003, 11:09	#46
Mavmb Old Skool Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Phoenix, AZ Posts: 2,169	Re: Your favorite Airline livery Like Hooters plane with picture of girl on rudder. Oungga Boonga.

June 29th, 2003, 11:12	#47
Joe Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Warwick, RI Posts: 538	Re: Your favorite Airline livery [ QUOTE ] Like Hooters plane with picture of girl on rudder. Oungga Boonga. [/ QUOTE ] Hooters Air should do something like Frontier; a different hot chick on each tail...

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