NW DC-10 in new livery! (at last)

tell me about it:rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Originally posted by Airline owner
same thing in my world

Strange world you live in

same thing in my world

Originally posted by Airline owner
no need for sarcasm but it was in my opinion

I was being facetious

no need for sarcasm but it was in my opinion

Originally posted by steve rowell
Different people have different tastes, i think the new livery is very bland compared to the old one

For sure, the livery is more sober yes.

but it saves NWA 40%!!!! in painting fees

Originally posted by Airline owner
they both have a red circular bit on the tail and white bits behind.I only meant looks a bit like it not it does completely look like it

In that case. JAL look like BA, as they both have red on their tails?

they both have a red circular bit on the tail and white bits behind.I only meant looks a bit like it not it does completely look like it

Different people have different tastes, i think the new livery is very bland compared to the old one

Originally posted by steve rowell
The new livery is very unappealing, unlike the old livery that had je ne sais quoi

The old livery was awfull. I mean, it look like it took a nose dive off of the ugly tree!

Originally posted by Airline owner
it looks a tad bit like JAL’s new corporate identity

Looks nothing, absolutely nothing like it

Re: Re: NW DC-10 in new livery! (at last)

Originally posted by greekdude1
I think if the red on the tail was extended to the No. 2 engine as well, it wouldn’t look as ‘bland’ to you, Peter. I personally think it looks fantastic, but would prefer it had the aforementioned engine been painted red. I just think it’s great that they got painted, period. Hopefully they will be around for a while.

I believe that Greek might be right. A red #2 engine would look great.

The new livery is very unappealing, unlike the old livery that had je ne sais quoi

it looks a tad bit like JAL’s new corporate identity

looks nice 😉

Originally posted by Whiskey Delta
“We’ll follow Easy-E to the runway.”

That is genious!

Hmm, never tought of all that.
Anyway the new colors look better than the red and grey. Is there a 744 already with new colors?

I have 2 problems with the new Northwest livery.

First on the right side of the aircraft the “pointer” in the Northwest logo no longer points to the Northwest but towards the Northeast. It defeats the ingenuity of the original livery.

Second, it seems that no one in the marketing department knows their pop culture, especially the history behind the letters NWA. It’s one thing to use it as a short hand at times but it’s quite another to paint it in huge letters on the side of the aircraft.

http://www.geocities.com/gillbk/nwa.html

Yeah, Niggaz wit Attitude or NWA. I had a captain reply to a taxi clearance following a Northwest Airlines DC-9 by stating “We’ll follow Easy-E to the runway.” The tower controller got it but it was lost on the Northwest crew. 🙂

I dont think the new colours look good on the DC-10, they look the best on the A330!

the ’40s have all been parked already. The remainder are all ’30s and will be parked as well. If NW is lucky they can sell a few to FedEx or the USAF or someone, purely for the planes to be stripped of usefull parts.

Not sure where Delta’s MD11s go. Lufty cargo? FedEx? UPS?