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Lovely new livery for BA 747

PostPosted:Mon Jan 21, 2019 6:59 pm
by Rob P
Or maybe I just like retro stuff?

http://mediacentre.britishairways.com/p ... -319/10505

Rob P

Re: Lovely new livery for BA 747

PostPosted:Mon Jan 21, 2019 7:05 pm
by rats404
Oh yes, very classy. They should paint them all back in the BOAC livery.

Re: Lovely new livery for BA 747

PostPosted:Mon Jan 21, 2019 7:05 pm
by johnm
Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be ;-)

Spanish owned airline gets the Irish to paint an American Aeroplane in the colours of a defunct British airline. :D

Re: Lovely new livery for BA 747

PostPosted:Mon Jan 21, 2019 7:25 pm
by Josh
Looks very cool to me and looking forward to seeing it around. Would love to see a BEA Airbus too.

Re: Lovely new livery for BA 747

PostPosted:Mon Jan 21, 2019 7:27 pm
by Dominie
Which BEA? 1950s, 1960s or 1970s?

Re: Lovely new livery for BA 747

PostPosted:Mon Jan 21, 2019 7:31 pm
by Josh
1960s for me. I saw a lovely mock-up elsewhere.

Re: Lovely new livery for BA 747

PostPosted:Mon Jan 21, 2019 7:41 pm
by Rob P
@Josh, BEA livery is also planned by all accounts.

Rob P

Re: Lovely new livery for BA 747

PostPosted:Mon Jan 21, 2019 7:54 pm
by aerofurb
On a slightly smaller scale, in 2008, for the club's 60th anniversary we had Mick Allen paint one of the (British) Airways Flying Club Warriors in both the 1960s BOAC and BEA Comet 4 scheme:

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Re: Lovely new livery for BA 747

PostPosted:Mon Jan 21, 2019 7:55 pm
by Iceman
Didn't BA try this misguided, expensive exercise some years ago when painting their aircraft tails like something out of a child's sketch pad ? To me, there is nothing more professional looking than a uniform colour scheme across the fleet. Do BA seriously believe that anyone gets on a commercial aircraft because of the way that it is painted :roll: ?

Iceman 8)

Re: Lovely new livery for BA 747

PostPosted:Mon Jan 21, 2019 7:56 pm
by CloudHound
At blooooomin’ last. Many of us have been banging on about retro schemes especially for the 744 for a long time.

Wonder what changed their minds?

Re: Lovely new livery for BA 747

PostPosted:Mon Jan 21, 2019 8:00 pm
by Lockhaven
I used to fly this in the old BA colours :)

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Re: Lovely new livery for BA 747

PostPosted:Mon Jan 21, 2019 8:15 pm
by rikur_
Retro liveries seem to be in fashion .... to celebrate the renationalisation of LNER last year, they reverted one loco to BR Intercity livery
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In LNER's case it actually does get a few more ticket sales from gricers

Re: Lovely new livery for BA 747

PostPosted:Mon Jan 21, 2019 8:55 pm
by Rob P
CloudHound wrote:Wonder what changed their minds?


The stated reason is marking a centenary

Rob P

Re: Lovely new livery for BA 747

PostPosted:Mon Jan 21, 2019 9:04 pm
by Chris Martyr
Iceman wrote:Didn't BA try this misguided, expensive exercise some years ago when painting their aircraft tails like something out of a child's sketch pad ?


You're damn right there Iceman ! And the only person who had the balls to rail against it was a little old lady with a handbag attending a trade conference , who walked up to the BA trade-stand and covered the tail of the model display aircraft with a napkin .

Luckily , after many thousands of similar complaints , they [for some reason] listened to this old girl and took her advice and at the same time , a certain Mr R. Ayling was sent off on his bike .

The big difference though , is that this old BOAC styled livery , is not something out of a child's sketch pad . It's a proper airline livery/identity . Something that has gone amiss in this age of virtual airlines and everything being outsourced .

I just hope that my final year[s] with a certain other , 'nearly large' airline , will see their B.747 liveries come into a similar line of uniformity .

Not holding my breath on that one though . :wink:

Re: Lovely new livery for BA 747

PostPosted:Mon Jan 21, 2019 9:45 pm
by Wide-Body
Josh wrote:Looks very cool to me and looking forward to seeing it around. Would love to see a BEA Airbus too.


Watch this space.