Red White and Blue Voyager
If someone’s clever enough on here to change the ‘United Kingdom’ from yellow/gold to blue, I’d be very interested to see it. It’s that aspect that looks a little too jingly for me and I’m sure that blue would make it more prominent.
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That aircraft Serial No and RAF at the rear is seriously oversize
Meets the brief nicely I'd say. Stylish and unique, it will be photographed and reported on wherever it goes in the world in a way that a standard Voyager would never be.
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I do not mind the United Kingdom, but gold doesn't work for me. Nor does the BBJ wavy lines. As for the Union Flag, why it was not applied to have been flying as seen flying from left to right on both sides shows a lack of attention to detail. I remember reading the story of the Tin opener being applied first time to the Hurricane IID's of 6 Sqn. Sqn boss at the time was Roger Porteous and his only cavat was the emblm would be facing forwards on either side. That should apply to the Union Flag. Another airframe that had Union Flags on it was Ed Force One, the Iron Maiden tour bird in 2011. I was working at the MRO where the decals were being applied and I had a discussion with the Astreus rep and the Air Livery guys on the application of a union flag in the distress format. They redid the decal for the starboard side to look like it was as seen as flying from the left.
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£900.000 and the flag on the stb side is still upside down.
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As for the Union Flag, why it was not applied to have been flying as seen flying from left to right on both sides shows a lack of attention to detail
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The flag is correct on both sides. You don't expect a flag on a flagpole to be the same when viewed from left or right and the same applies to aircraft. And £900k was spent on the total maintenance input not just the repaint.
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I do not mind the United Kingdom, but gold doesn't work for me. Nor does the BBJ wavy lines. As for the Union Flag, why it was not applied to have been flying as seen flying from left to right on both sides shows a lack of attention to detail. I remember reading the story of the Tin opener being applied first time to the Hurricane IID's of 6 Sqn. Sqn boss at the time was Roger Porteous and his only cavat was the emblm would be facing forwards on either side. That should apply to the Union Flag. Another airframe that had Union Flags on it was Ed Force One, the Iron Maiden tour bird in 2011. I was working at the MRO where the decals were being applied and I had a discussion with the Astreus rep and the Air Livery guys on the application of a union flag in the distress format. They redid the decal for the starboard side to look like it was as seen as flying from the left.
I've always understood the convention, as noted above, is to paint as if the LE of the fin is a flagpole...
You really think this wasn't thought about or discussed...?
