Virgin Billboards

[karrank]

Spied a green & black aeroplane over near the Tenix hangar at Tulla this arvo. Went & had a look, it was Virgin's VH-VOI with all the red bits painted completely over, black with green trim & with an add for some crap razor.

(Scuttles to bathroom, scuttles back).

Erm, a bit like mine actually.

(Thinks about post for a minute).

Erm, I don't actually own a Boeing (unless Boeing has bought Subaru since this morning), I mean my razor is like the one in the ad.

Is this some master plan to gain revenue from their bloated fleet, or did they just leave it too close to the fence?

Is it parked in ML coz the BN sun on the black paint melts the fittings & boils the blue stuff in the dunnies?

[Bendy]

Maybe just an undercoat for the Blue and Yellow paint job ???

[ZK-NSJ]

park it overnight near the marrickville fence, and it might end up looking like those qantas 747's

[Big Hairy Potatoes]

Something different. Apparently Gillette paid a fortune for this to fly around for 3 months with it flying into every major port in that time. Start of some very smart revenue raising.

VB Gillette (http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=783764&size=M&sok=JURER%20%20%28nvepensg_trarevp%20%3D%20%27Obrvat%20737-800%20%28OOW2%2FP-40%29%27%20BE%20nvepensg_trarevp%20%3D%20%27Obrvat%20737-900%27%29%20NAQ%20%28nveyvar%20YVXR%20%27Ivetva%20Oyhr%25%27 %29%20NAQ%20%28pbhagel%20YVXR%20%27Nhfgenyvn%25%27%29%20%20B EQRE%20OL%20cubgb_vq%20QRFP&photo_nr=2&prev_id=783765&next_id=781962)

[PureRisk]

Apparently they paid Virgin a record $1.79 mill to put this on the A/C. It is for a limited time (I heard 3-4months but dont quote me on that bit). You can say what you want but in commercial terms would have to be some of the easiest smartest way of making a quick (but extremely large) amount of money. May be a last ditch attempt by BG to generate some revenue before CC moves in. Heard he has already got 60% of what he needs for the jump accross the 51% ownership line and hence full control.

[1279shp]

Fascinating question in crew-room re paint colours on a/c. The Mach 737 came up. Wud black paint in Oz wud put some interesting heat stresses in/around cabin + structure?

Black (and yellow combined from memory) is the colour(s) most visible while aloft - reason why UK police helo's are this colour combo.

B+Y (http://www.airliners.net/open.file/417037/M/)

[Taildragger67]

Spuds,

That looks truly awful.

Mind you, not as bad as this travesty:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/214629/M/

Ryanair have been flooging their aircraft sides for years:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/699540/M/
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/332057/M/

... although not sure if they've done any of the 738s.

I reckon the rot started with this beauty:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/512650/M/
Before the '25' (its RAAF id was -725), this had a black QF rat on the cowl (and carpet and a minibar in the front cockpit!!) - remember the old Bowral shows...