British Airways retro painting 747-400 in BOAC colors

[Skipness One Foxtrot]

Three retro B744s but only two operate to Vancouver, G-CIVB or G-BNLY.
Chances are 2/15

[stilton]

Originally Posted by DaveReidUK

Early B741s/B742s were built with 3 windows, later ones with 10.

In addition, some airlines (including BA in the late 1970s) modified their early aircraft, which involved replacing the skin panels as can be seen on this NW B741:



https://www.airliners.net/photo/Nort...ng-747-151/635

I always thought these additional windows were added by simply ‘punching them out’

Instead it sounds like you’re saying the skin panels encompassing them were entirely removed and replaced with new ones incorporating the additional windows ?

[jindabyne]

Bit late on here. Anything like this? Prints available.

[tdracer]

Originally Posted by stilton

I always thought these additional windows were added by simply ‘punching them out’

Instead it sounds like you’re saying the skin panels encompassing them were entirely removed and replaced with new ones incorporating the additional windows ?

It's not just the window openings - the surrounding fuselage structure (e.g. stringers, etc.) has to change to support the loads.