Merged: New Qantas livery
Jaba, I'm sorry but I don't have access to any photos of the cracks (& now that QF management have cracked down on staff taking photos at work, it could be difficult to get any.
Keg, OhForSure, yeah the Roller pylons are unpainted on both the Classic and the -400. I don't know for certain but I believe that the -400 engine cowls are painted for ascetic reasons (I think that some sections of the cowl are not metallic). Also the cowls extend further aft on the -G engine compared to the D4 and the small QF logo on the cowls stands out better than on the unpainted classic cowls. Originally, the oil breather on the -400 engines was flush with the cowl which resulted in an oil stain contrasting with the white cowls. The fix was to fit an "elbow" to the oil breather taking it into the airflow away from the cowl. They also changed the paint from bright white to an off white colour which doesn't show oil stains as much
Keg, OhForSure, yeah the Roller pylons are unpainted on both the Classic and the -400. I don't know for certain but I believe that the -400 engine cowls are painted for ascetic reasons (I think that some sections of the cowl are not metallic). Also the cowls extend further aft on the -G engine compared to the D4 and the small QF logo on the cowls stands out better than on the unpainted classic cowls. Originally, the oil breather on the -400 engines was flush with the cowl which resulted in an oil stain contrasting with the white cowls. The fix was to fit an "elbow" to the oil breather taking it into the airflow away from the cowl. They also changed the paint from bright white to an off white colour which doesn't show oil stains as much
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I was going to mention the "oil breather", but I had NFI what it was called! Nice bit of cosmetic surgery that...was it adopted into the subsequent engine designs, or is it just an "after market" fix?
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Buster, I suspect that it's an 'after market' fix but I'm not 100% sure. When we got the 767 Z cars from BA none of them had oil breathers fitted on the engines. I used to ask the engineers to clean the left hand cowl when departing OOL due to the fact that the punters walked across the tarmac to the rear stairs and the oil stain would be quite prevalent.
It's been a few years since I've been around the bottom of a 767 too so I have no idea if QF retro-fitted them to the Z cars.
It's been a few years since I've been around the bottom of a 767 too so I have no idea if QF retro-fitted them to the Z cars.
