For the aviation fans

[sawystertrance]

Last year the new Lufthansa Livery was introduced.  As time goes all aircraft will be repainted.  I very much like the new livery.

 

Lufthansa-747-8-1.jpg

I watched a program on how it is done. Each respray costs something like USD 1 million...

[kosmonooit]

I watched a program on how it is done. Each respray costs something like USD 1 million...

 

Honestly I don't get it .. let the past be the past  ,,,,

 

Salsbury

 

http://www.vc10.net/Memories/Images/G-ASGB_Salisbury_Rhodesia.jpg

 

 

 

FAJS

 

http://www.vc10.net/Memories/Images/G-ASGB_JNB_troptrials1965.jpg

 

 

 

http://www.vc10.net/Memories/Images/VB_overhead_Joburg.jpg

 

Joburg back in the day, 1963 lol   - overhead Hillbrow

 

 

 

Maybe its about the backward looking epidemic that led to Brexit

Edited March 5, 2019 by kosmonooit

[kosmonooit]

Lovely lines but ...

 

http://i.imgur.com/u9xOQoC.jpg

 

1953

 

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[kosmonooit]

 

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[kosmonooit]

[SwissVan]

 

Hell.....in that pic there was a forest once where I grew up.....

 

 

And... is that a yellow Concorde?

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[Robbie Stewart]

707,717,727,737,747,757,767,777,787

IMG_20160717_061834.jpg

So, who's been on 'em all?

 

I been on 737, 767 and 777 so far...

[kosmonooit]

Hell.....in that pic there was a forest once where I grew up.....

 

 

And... is that a yellow Concorde?

 

That's when it came out for high altitude tests in 1973 ... in fact  I saw that one land from that very spot, the viewing platform on the old (then new) International Terminal. Futher fact: I cycled 30 k's there, as a lightie does, to see the action.

 

That is looking to the south east south.

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[kosmonooit]

707,717,727,737,747,757,767,777,787

 

 

717 wtf ... where did that see the light of day. Besides that its just the 777 that I haven't flown in.

[kosmonooit]

LWB there used to be a Constellation (or Super Constellation) parked in the back of the Technical areas where you give the engines a good blow, it is still there?

[Long Wheel Base]

717 wtf ... where did that see the light of day. Besides that its just the 777 that I haven't flown in.

Firstly, Thanks for all those awesome pics. WOW ORT has changed a lot.

 

AFAIK the 717 was actually a MD-80 that Boeing dubbed the 717 when they bought Macdonald Douglas. So like you say, it never really saw the light of day as a 717.

[Long Wheel Base]

LWB there used to be a Constellation (or Super Constellation) parked in the back of the Technical areas where you give the engines a good blow, it is still there?

LOL I was just about to respond to your constellation pic about it. No. It was donated/bought by some museum or something a few years back. I remember when they moved it. Removed the wings and stuck it all on a flat bed.

[Bateleur1]

So, who's been on 'em all?

 

I been on 737, 767 and 777 so far...

 

737 and 747.

 

Airbus it would be A318, A319, A320, A330, A340 (300 and 600) and A380.

Edited March 6, 2019 by Bateleur1

[Lotus]

Honestly I don't get it .. let the past be the past  ,,,,

 

Maybe its about the backward looking epidemic that led to Brexit

Nostalgia ain't what it used to be, right?

 

Actually I like to see those old colour schemes resurrected for BA's commemorative year. And $1m apiece is peanuts for the marketing budget anyway.

 

Michael O'Leary gets Ryanair noticed by pissing off passengers and the EU commissioners. BA has chosen to remind people of a grand era of flight.

[Lotus]

This just in:

https://twitter.com/TrafficSA/status/1103198543173562368/photo/1

 

It's a good landing when you can walk away from it, right?

[Robbie Stewart]

Firstly, Thanks for all those awesome pics. WOW ORT has changed a lot.

 

AFAIK the 717 was actually a MD-80 that Boeing dubbed the 717 when they bought Macdonald Douglas. So like you say, it never really saw the light of day as a 717.

 

Then technically, I have flown as a passenger on the MD-80 when Kulula still had them around.