First Pic Of New Livery On The Net

[HPearlyretiree]

Couldn't see the picture, the link works, but nothing comes up. I agree though that Hawaiian has the prettiest livery in the skies these days, it is beautiful. I still love the old Flying Colors scheme of Brannif with the rings around the engine. The brick red and sky blue and royal blue planes were beautiful. As was the late great flying pumpkin!

Big fan of the audacious gaudy Hughes AirWest banannas!

 

[Andre1980]

It looks ok (nothing to get too excited about) and a little brighter that the current but I can't see this livery seperating UA from the rest since there isn't anything orginal about it. Althought AA has been repeatedly been criticised about how dated their livery is I think it is a classic and seperates them from the rest. They do not need to replace their livery since the patriotic American colours will never go out of style and the birds that I taught stood out in their silver bird livery was the 727, DC-10, MD-11, 767 and the 777.

 

[JAMAKE1]

H Pearly:

The sundance look of Hughes Airwest is and was by far the most stylish and mod logo of its time. As a young boy growing up in San Francisco during the 1970's, I was mesmerized by the the sundance look of Hughes. I would paste myself to the vista window of the central terminal at SFO, which looked out directly to where Hughes parked its DC-9 and F-27's. As a grown adult, I have a display case in my home of Hughes Airwest memorabilia. To this day, the Hughes Airwest script is still contemporary and forward-thinking. It has never gone out of style. It was only just a few years ago that I learned that the triple diamond logo on the tail is in fact a three dimentional "HH", which of course, are the initials of the late Howard Hughes. Mario Armand Zamparelli was brilliant!

 

[mga707]

H Pearly:

It was only just a few years ago that I learned that the triple diamond logo on the tail is in fact a three dimentional "HH", which of course, are the initials of the late Howard Hughes.

I'm not so sure of that. I've always assumed that the triple diamond logo was actually a stylized "H", "A", and "W", overlaid upon each other. If you look at it closely you can make out all three letters.

 

[mga707]

sorry--duplicate

 

[Jetphotos]

2375 is due into SFO on Tuesday no later than 1400 local, then goes to ORD Wednesday evening arriving after 2300... Departing ORD for LAX at 1000 Thursday then back to ORD same day.... this routing subject to change.

 

[737nCH11]

JAMAKE1,

If you liked Hughes, then you will love the new DHL paint job. Bright yellow and red!

 

[desertfox]

Where was that pic taken? It looks like the bone yard 1/2 between PHX and TUS. Look at all the stored a/c in the background and the mountain range....
Just curious.

 

[TheLarkAscending]

<Tongue-in-cheek font on>Surely, all of you must realize that this new livery is simply a gearing up and continued secret preparation for the big UCT/ICT with the business partner, don't you? 😉 🙄 Oh, and reliable unnamed sources insist it is still uncertain whom the surviving carrier will be! 🙄 <Tongue-in-cheek font off>

 

[HPearlyretiree]

I can see it now, looks OK, I like the tail. The cheatlines remind me of Spirit.

I like the grey version better, its nice and crisp, but will be hard to get used to. When AWA came out with its "jurrassic park" new paint scheme, I was pretty undecided.



As for airlines past, well, I have a RW (Hughes AirWest) 727 sitting on my desk at work, and a small diecast of Brannif 747-SP (love that plane, finally got to nonrev on one from South African), in the brilliant orange scheme, love it!

I really like the America West Ohio plane, I hope they don't get rid of it, like the CMH hub!

Of course, If you fly with MS Flight Sim 2004, you can get your share of PSA L1011's, Eastern 747's, National 727's, Ozark, Southern, Air Florida and McClain planes. Only place left where you can see them fly!

I do the TWA Constellation Super G whenever I can.

 

[mga707]

Where was that pic taken? It looks like the bone yard 1/2 between PHX and TUS. Look at all the stored a/c in the background and the mountain range....
Just curious.

No, it's not Marana AZ (Pinal Air Park).
As is stated under the pic, it's the former George AFB at Victorville CA.
Nice old/new contrast with the stored gray UA 'whale' (747-400) that can be seen under the 777's lower rear fuselage.

 

[LiveInAHotel]

Everyone has udated their paint scheme except AA. I wonder when theirs will change?

AA will never change their paint scheme. Besides, what paint scheme are you talking about? The red, white and blue stripe with the red American logo on the side and the red and blue AA logo on the tail with the eagle? AA doesn't put paint on the plane so they can save $$$ on fuel. Less weight on a fuselage means better fuel economy.

The only thing they may do is modernize the American logo on the fuselage and the AA logo on the tail.

 

[mweiss]

...Hughes Airwest...It was only just a few years ago that I learned that the triple diamond logo on the tail is in fact a three dimentional "HH", which of course, are the initials of the late Howard Hughes. Mario Armand Zamparelli was brilliant!

Another brilliant aspect of this logo, once you get the three-dimensional look, is the nod to Howard Hughes's past. He was a big proponent of extensive use of the Lockheed Constellation, which had the triple-tail that looked much like the Hughes Airwest triple-diamond logo.

FWIW, his heavy pressure on TWA to stick with the Connies when everyone else was going to jets nearly killed the airline in the 1950s.

 

[coolflyingfool]

Does this mean that UA will now have to issue new uniforms, redo their ticket counters and gates, repaint all of their ground equipment, and redo all of their signage?

 

[coolflyingfool]

LiveInAHotel said, ""AA will never change their paint scheme. Besides, what paint scheme are you talking about? The red, white and blue stripe with the red American logo on the side and the red and blue AA logo on the tail with the eagle? AA doesn't put paint on the plane so they can save $$$ on fuel. Less weight on a fuselage means better fuel econom.""

But the metal treatments cost about the same as the fuel savings or I think all airlines would have an AA scheme on the planes to save money. I know that Airbuses have to be painted, but not Boeings metal monsters.