BA 757

[TOWTEAMBASE]

I've seen a coupe of times now on flightradar24 a French registered 757, that when clicked on, the picture shows a 757 in BA livery. What's that all about ?. Also interesting to see the BA A380 on another link earlier, big black circle on nose looks like the 737/757 used to have......never did find out why that was either

[edi_local]

Openskies use old BA 757s between East Coast USA and Paris. Their livery is a watered down version of the BA colours.

[TOWTEAMBASE]

Ah ok. Seems strange a french registered aircraft being allowed to operate in this scheme, thanks for your reply

[TopBunk]

TTB

Why strange? Various BA affilates over the world do it. Alliance partners Sun Air of Scandanavia and Comair of South Africa for two.

[Groundloop]

Seems strange a french registered aircraft being allowed to operate in this scheme,

As BA set-up OpenSkies why is it a surprise?

[The SSK]

French registered aircraft in BA livery.

http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/middle/4/5/4/2075454.jpg

[SpringHeeledJack]

What ever happened to TAT ? I used to fly on them a lot years ago, but haven't thought about them since.


SHJ

[treadigraph]

TAT, yes... Yellow F-27s and F-28s, and back in the 70s, Beech 99s into Gatwick, along with Air Alpes... Oh and TAT has the VFW614s as well... Sorry, we should be over on Nostalgia...!

[Load Toad]

http://www.pprune.org/tech-log/409150-why-nose-paintedin-black.html

[avionic type]

Proberly the painted one [if it was painted ]was damaged and this is a replacement ,it will not be painted in the company colours till the next airplane repaint or the next major overhaul.

[JB007]

In the case of the BA 757's, the final post of the link above is correct - the "black circle" was due to fitting of MLS.

[Skipness One Echo]

Did they have MLS in 1997?

[Load Toad]

Mate, you are 31 yrs old, you have a computer and internet connection, a selection of browsers and search engines - do we have to Google that for you & say 'yes' (As in invented). With regard in use what stipulations do you have...?

[Skipness One Echo]

Heathrow low visibility landing rate upped as microwave landing system goes fully operational (http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/heathrow-low-visibility-landing-rate-upped-as-microwave-landing-system-goes-fully-operational-324340/)

I remember it going live quite recently, hence my question. Most of the B757s before G-CPEM delivered in 1997 had the black ring on the nose. G-BIKK and G-BNWB had test noses but that's not the same thing. If MLS was in use commercially on the BA network from 1997 then that's news to me.
With regard in use what stipulations do you have...?
I don't understand this sentence, can you rephrase please? Ideally in English.

I don't think MLS explains why all these aircraft had black rings in the mid to late 1990s, I could be wrong, but it seems odd.
Also, was MLS fitted across the B737-200 fleet? They were on the verge of retirement yet all had the nose, indeed the noses were swapped about a fair bit too.
Photos: Boeing 737-236/Adv Aircraft Pictures | Airliners.net (http://www.airliners.net/photo/British-Airways/Boeing-737-236-Adv/0664171/L/&sid=dcc550664e49fe46565be2277eb2482d)

[Flap40]

I know for a fact that in the mid 1990's one of the AirUK Fokker 100's (G-UKFF I think) had an MLS receiver installed for data gathering. There was no indication to the crew that it was there but every time the aircraft flew into Schiphol using rwy 06 the system gathered data from the experimental MLS system on that runway.
I would assume that BA were doing a similar thing with a variety of aircraft at Heathrow.