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Old 28th Oct 2008, 12:41
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Great looking airlines that are long gone...

Which airlines do you miss the most?

In the days of mergers, there aren't nearly as many great liveries left!!

I miss IEA, Excalibur, Airworld, Orion.....

Unique liveries and always great to see....
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Yeah, IEA was one of the nicest on a summers day to photograph.

Ambassador was a 'short' lived livery.

Hispania was really nice and bright - esp on the 2 757's.

Futura was very similar to Hispania.

Orion was quite nice.

Air 2000's 1st livery was excellent for photos too.
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Old 29th Oct 2008, 01:25
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I liked B.E.A.'s last livery. Especially the Stottish Airways version from '69 to '74
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Evansb, great shot spanning the times although when that paint job came out a frequent smarta$$ remark was something to the effect, "nice primer coat, when are you going to finish it"
I believe it also coincided with some fairly unusual F/A uniforms.
The tail logo reminded me of the Utility symbol common on items in Britain in the late forties. ( I was just a very young nipper at the time )
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CP Air employed the same ad agency that created the Coca-Cola swoosh. The red arrow in the half-circle is supposed to symbolize motion through the hemisphere. Here is a shot that captures a few by-gone liveries.
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g/day everybody.i have to say i think the old BOAC livery was the best on a vc10 or a 747 it looked good.i also loved the channel a/ws livery as well.
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Old 29th Oct 2008, 09:32
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Spantax last livery i quite liked too...
and the final Dan-air livery was a great livery as was the last Britannia livery before they went all Tui-fied!!!

NOw then...JMC - The marmite of liveries - Love it or hate it but it was unique!!
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How about Braniff with their aircraft colours selected by Mary Wells Lawrence? But Pan Am with their blue ball logo on the tail and name on the fuelage in huge letters has to be the most memorable.
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Court Line,
British Eagle,
Caledonian,
Aer Lingus [the Dark Green scheme on their DC3s]
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evansb,

That brought back great memories - I was going to say 'Empress' for sure!#
My old man took me onboard a CP Air stretch 8 one day and they looked so long until the 74 dwarfed them.
The LGW pic - beyond the Airtours Comet - is that the old Midland colour scheme and a Donaldson Brit? Don't thinks it's Donaldson....Lloyd?? I give up!

I must get a scanner - think I have a Sterling DC-6 pic from those days and a bit topical with their sad demise.

More to the list:
Kar Air
What was the shortlived outfit that took over the Ambassador 73's?
Saturn
Capitol
TIA
Seaboard World
Flying Tigers
SAM - DC-6's and SE.210's at Gatwick

I think I now have more photos of airlines that have gone than are still operating
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Namib Air (the predecessor of Air Namibia).

The current 'logo' is crap. The original was tons better...

*sigh*

S.
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Angel Air Rhodesia

Viscount in full livery.

Viscount with underside painted with anti missile.


http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/b...e/0129283l.jpg

http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/b...e/0129282l.jpg

On a personal note ...

Years ago flying back from JHB to a city called "Salisbury" in a country named "Rhodesia" in an Air Rhodesia Viscount just a couple of weeks after one had been taken out the sky by a Sam7, I was sat next to a very mouthy American.
"Godamn place this Africa, only here because my company sent me, how you can sit on an old crate like this is beyond me"
At this point all the cabin and nav lights go out.
My American friend pushes attendant button.
Air hostess arrives "Yes Sir may I help you ?"
"Why have the godamn lights gone out, fuse blown I suppose ?"
"No Sir it is a safety procedure to make us less vunerable to a terrorist guided missile attack"
American looks at me "She takin' the p***"
"No she is dead serious - they got one of these two weeks ago"
Silence all the way home !!

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...loved the channel a/ws livery...
Credit where credit's due; this was actually the livery of Continental (US). When Channel bought the Viscounts from them they were too by stingy to spend money on paint.

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Continental-Airlines/Vickers-812-Viscount/0128846/M/
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Pan Am, a 707 in Pan Am colours, nice.

Nick.
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Here's a couple.



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Hey pigboat, that beautiful NORDAIR model is the unique stepped-cockpit, square wing-tipped C-46G. Here is one airline I do miss:
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Hey pigboat, that beautiful NORDAIR model is the unique stepped-cockpit, square wing-tipped C-46G.
I had the guy at Whiskey Jack Decals make me a special order. The Nordair set he had for the C-46 was for NAE, which was a F model. FBJ came apart in the air in a thunderstorm, north of Roberval, enroute from Montreal to Fort Chimo.
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Just looking back through some of my old 70's LGW photo's, how about:
Southern Cross (anyone remember their 707?)
Saber Air (Singapore)
Donaldson
Wardair
Modern Air Transport
ONA
Pomair (Belgian DC-8/DC-6)
APSA (of Peru, DC-8 that operated for Iberia/Aviaco)
Interswede (DC-8)
Spear Air (DC-8)
Airlift International
Great days...!
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