QANTAS "Dreaming" aircraft slower.
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QANTAS "Dreaming" aircraft slower.
According to a BBC report on that television`s "Flight Track" programme, a QANTAS F/A - Ken D_ _son, emailed BBC to advise the station that the aircraft painted in Aboriginal colours (presumably one of the "Dreaming" series - Wunala Dreaming · Nalanji Dreaming ) adds an extra 30 minutes to the flight time from Australia to Bangkok, in addition to the penalties owing to the extra weight (because of the paint scheme).
Thank you F/A Ken.
Thank you F/A Ken.
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Any truth to the rumour the bloke who painted it isn't even Aboriginal? I heard he was some Pakistani/Italian (???) ab-impersonator.
Or am I thinking of some other sham artiste??
Or am I thinking of some other sham artiste??
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I heard it adds some ridiculous amount like 20t to the overall weight.... is that true? If not, they need to tell that Sydney airport dude to stop spinning that to the tourists!!! 
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Absolute nonsense.
Wunala is Pacific config. 400ER
spends most of its time over the Pacific ocean doing exactly the same speed as all the other 744ER's
If you see it in BKK you're either lucky (yes it does pass thru on the rare occasion) or mistaken
Roughly about 600-800 KG's of paint on a 744. and apparently red paint is slightly heavier due to the amount of pigment required to keep it a nice shiny red. BUT nothing like the weight mentioned above.
Same goes for Nalanji (743) .... speed same as all the others.
Wunala is Pacific config. 400ER
spends most of its time over the Pacific ocean doing exactly the same speed as all the other 744ER's
If you see it in BKK you're either lucky (yes it does pass thru on the rare occasion) or mistaken
Roughly about 600-800 KG's of paint on a 744. and apparently red paint is slightly heavier due to the amount of pigment required to keep it a nice shiny red. BUT nothing like the weight mentioned above.
Same goes for Nalanji (743) .... speed same as all the others.
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Oh, I didn't know that the paint component of the BRW made a different impact on the BRW and hence speed than the pax, or fuel, or engines, or any other component of the BRW ????
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Capt Claret touche mon ami. 
Mind you the yoof around my part of town are absolutely certain the red go faster paint jobs give them at least another 50kmh on their Hyundai Excels or maybe it's the fluffy dice.
Another mystery of the universe. 
Mind you the yoof around my part of town are absolutely certain the red go faster paint jobs give them at least another 50kmh on their Hyundai Excels or maybe it's the fluffy dice.
Another mystery of the universe.
Woomera,
Now if you wanted to really soup up the 744, you just have to give it a couple of GT stripes down the top of the fuselage. Maybe also pinch a couple of drain pipe exhausts off the street hoons WRX's and GTR's that cruise around Brighton Le Sands on a weekend.
Nah come to think of it, these are probably too big for a 747 engine anyway
Now if you wanted to really soup up the 744, you just have to give it a couple of GT stripes down the top of the fuselage. Maybe also pinch a couple of drain pipe exhausts off the street hoons WRX's and GTR's that cruise around Brighton Le Sands on a weekend.
Nah come to think of it, these are probably too big for a 747 engine anyway
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Now if you wanted to really soup up the 744
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Driving to work last night (a friday night) through Brighton I was stuck behind some quad turbo, multi wheel drive thing that had the piggest exhaust system I have ever seen. It easly must have been the diameter of a small garbage can.
