My second Livery to actually be painted

Some great work – I’ve just read the whole thread and did them two A320 start ups come to fruiton, anything else come to fruition and is there anything in the pipleline,

As mentioned must be quite proud, hope the UAA is fixed up soon,

Wozza

Well yes and no.

That starter was Nexus Airways. He was far too stuck on operating Airbus and using the design he had seemingly devised for a virtual airline, which is the rather gash blue and silver livery we all saw in their press statement last year. The logo in particular is very poor.

I tried my best to get him to take up another design, but he was fixated with what he had.. I dunno why he contacted me to be honest.

Hey Sandy, I remember that great notional Loganair livery you did. Given the news they may be pulling out of the BA franchise early, might I suggest you work it up onto a Saab 340 template. 😎 😀

That is certainly something to take a shot at 😀
Maybe they’ll take some pointers from a homegrown source eh?

How do you design the liveries?

Hey Sandy, I remember that great notional Loganair livery you did. Given the news they may be pulling out of the BA franchise early, might I suggest you work it up onto a Saab 340 template. 😎 😀

Last owner was Airborne Express I think. I have the original “N” reg number here so it was definately with a us airline last.

It probably was Airborne. They had a boatload of those super 62’s and 63’s before they slowly started to phase them out and take delivery of the 2nd hand 762’s from NH and TW. They used to fly over my house all the time taking off from ONT and making a right hand 180 before heading off to where-ever they are based back east. I used to love it because they made a lot of noise and left 4 smoke trails! At any rate, I think they’ve been bought out by DHL on this side of the pond, as the 762’s I see parked at ONT now where Air Ex used to be are in the Yellow DHL livery.

By the way Sandy, nice job on that. It looks outstanding! I remember Bahamasair old livery on their 727’s. It wasn’t bad, but not as good as yours. Sorry to hear about the Diesel Eight.

Unlucky – hope it flies again soon!

Some great work – I’ve just read the whole thread and did them two A320 start ups come to fruiton, anything else come to fruition and is there anything in the pipleline,

As mentioned must be quite proud, hope the UAA is fixed up soon,

Wozza

What was the inspiration for the tail design?

www.bahamas.com

Its a stylised map of the Bahamas archipelago used by the Bahamas ministry of tourism. The tail was going to feature a nice ocean blue tail and some other colours on the fuse. Needless to say, thats not how it turned out. Management wimps outs at the last momeny saw to that.

What was the inspiration for the tail design?

Sad to see an aircraft you’ve designed yourself get damaged…

Out of interest, which livery first got on a plane?

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0874883/L/

sad to see a colour scheme you have designed yourself, on a damaged aircraft.

Sad to see an aircraft you’ve designed yourself get damaged…

Out of interest, which livery first got on a plane?

We have an MK airlines DC8 parked up at Filton, taxied past her today and forgot to photo her, I’ll get my pax to take a photo of her next time we go.

Shame about the little Accident Sandy, hopefully she will be repaired and put back into service asap

They Have an MK DC 8 Stored at Manston. Sad about the Accident hope they can get it back up in the air.

James

I’ve still never even seen a DC-8!

Paul

We have an MK airlines DC8 parked up at Filton, taxied past her today and forgot to photo her, I’ll get my pax to take a photo of her next time we go.

Shame about the little Accident Sandy, hopefully she will be repaired and put back into service asap

Very sad 🙁 . Let’s hope she can be repaired. There arn’t enough of those old birds in the skies any more. I’ve still never even seen a DC-8!

Paul

Some good news.

They hope to repair Farahnaz 2. The only real issue is the logistics of the repair. Apparently the Arabians are none to helpfull. They’ve parked the aircraft 3 miles from the terminal and deny the local UAA engineer permission to use a vehicle to get to it, so he has to walk for half an hour to get to the plane. Crazy!

Sorry for the thread revival, but as we have so many new folk, I thought it best to stop some inevitable questions.

I have just received a call from ST-UAA’s owner. Apparently the DC-8 took a wrong taxi way and taxied into a storm drain in Dubai! 🙁
He’s reckoning around $3million of damage. All 4 engines apparently point skywards just now. Will try and secure photos.

At this moment I have no idea if the lovely bird will be written off or not. 🙁

Very sad 🙁 . Let’s hope she can be repaired. There arn’t enough of those old birds in the skies any more. I’ve still never even seen a DC-8!

Paul

UPDATE

Sorry for the thread revival, but as we have so many new folk, I thought it best to stop some inevitable questions.

I have just received a call from ST-UAA’s owner. Apparently the DC-8 took a wrong taxi way and taxied into a storm drain in Dubai at the end of march 🙁
He’s reckoning around $3million of damage. All 4 engines apparently point skywards just now. Will try and secure photos.
At this moment I have no idea if the lovely bird will be written off or not. 🙁

Seems somewhat akin to the Saudia 743 incident!

Currently #3 in last 24 hours on a.net…. 🙂

😀 😎

Currently #3 in last 24 hours on a.net…. 🙂

Well, I’m not an Arabic speaker, but here is what I know:
(Arabic gets written/read from right to left so that is the order I’m going to follow)

الخطوط = “Khatoot”, plural of Khat, meaning Line
الجوية = “Joeweaa”, translated as Air
العربية = “Arabeaa”, Arabic for Arabian 🙂
المتحدة = “Mut-tahida”, meaning United (used a lot when referring to UAE, USA, UK…)
للطيران = “Tayraan”, roughly translates into Flight

and now you know… 😉