First UAL 744 in new colours

It’s a lot fresher than that dirty grey color of the old livery

Agree! I thought their most recent colors were a bad imitation of the old KLM scheme.

It’s a lot fresher than that dirty grey color of the old livery

Agree! I thought their most recent colors were a bad imitation of the old KLM scheme.

The 757 looks better in that livery.

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/726932/M/

The 757 looks better in that livery.

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/726932/M/

I’m still waiting for a response by Airbusbaby telling me which livery in the “all the rest out there” category the new UA scheme resembles. I think there has been no response because he realized there surely isn’t one, and he simply made a false assessment. It’s ok, we can all admit that we’re wrong sometimes.

I’m still waiting for a response by Airbusbaby telling me which livery in the “all the rest out there” category the new UA scheme resembles. I think there has been no response because he realized there surely isn’t one, and he simply made a false assessment. It’s ok, we can all admit that we’re wrong sometimes.

Still just the one 777 in the new colours AFAIK.

Still just the one 777 in the new colours AFAIK.

It’s a lot fresher than that dirty grey color of the old livery

It’s a lot fresher than that dirty grey color of the old livery

It looks better than the old grey scheme. Its nice to see a brighter scheme, but it seems few of their 777’s operating into LHR have it so far. Still perfer the 80’s/early 90’s white scheme that I saw on their 727’s/737-2/747sp/DC10 etc 😀 .

The first 777 to don the new c/s was N775UA. I rode on this bird in July from DEN to IAD. Is this still the sole example wearing the new colours?

It looks better than the old grey scheme. Its nice to see a brighter scheme, but it seems few of their 777’s operating into LHR have it so far. Still perfer the 80’s/early 90’s white scheme that I saw on their 727’s/737-2/747sp/DC10 etc 😀 .

The first 777 to don the new c/s was N775UA. I rode on this bird in July from DEN to IAD. Is this still the sole example wearing the new colours?

The UAL 777 is the best looking in the new livery

Dean

The UAL 777 is the best looking in the new livery

Dean

It looks better than the old grey scheme. Its nice to see a brighter scheme, but it seems few of their 777’s operating into LHR have it so far. Still perfer the 80’s/early 90’s white scheme that I saw on their 727’s/737-2/747sp/DC10 etc 😀 .

It looks better than the old grey scheme. Its nice to see a brighter scheme, but it seems few of their 777’s operating into LHR have it so far. Still perfer the 80’s/early 90’s white scheme that I saw on their 727’s/737-2/747sp/DC10 etc 😀 .

Aircraft repainting is a scheduled event similar to maintenance checks. After so many years the aircraft needs to be repainted no matter if the livery has changed or not. Now with a livery change the repainting schedule/frequency is just noticeable where as until now most people just assumed that each aircraft was painted once 10 years ago and never saw a new coat of paint.

That’s more or less what I was saying, albeit not as detailed as you.

Are you sure about that? Unless an airline decides to utilize a paint scheme similar to American with bare metal how does one design use more paint than another. Perhaps having a line painted overtop of a base coat would add additional paint but as far as I could tell the old UAL livery had very little cheat lines (or whatever they are called).

Believe it or not, WD, I had actually read that somewhere, that by using white instead of dark grey and a lighter shade of blue, that the paint would wind up being lighter.

Aircraft repainting is a scheduled event similar to maintenance checks. After so many years the aircraft needs to be repainted no matter if the livery has changed or not. Now with a livery change the repainting schedule/frequency is just noticeable where as until now most people just assumed that each aircraft was painted once 10 years ago and never saw a new coat of paint.

That’s more or less what I was saying, albeit not as detailed as you.

Are you sure about that? Unless an airline decides to utilize a paint scheme similar to American with bare metal how does one design use more paint than another. Perhaps having a line painted overtop of a base coat would add additional paint but as far as I could tell the old UAL livery had very little cheat lines (or whatever they are called).

Believe it or not, WD, I had actually read that somewhere, that by using white instead of dark grey and a lighter shade of blue, that the paint would wind up being lighter.

Very nice! 😀

Very nice! 😀