Sadly as its going to be a G-BY 747-400 we wont see it at the foot of the "empire" here in CPT....only low J models come our way.....by chance was on "VM" down here last night

If I remember correctly BA painted the last B747 Classic in BOAC colours before sending it to the sctapyard.

That would certainly draw a crowd to the end of 27R

I'd certainly love to see photos of that. It's strange that a hard-nosed organisation like BA would spend money on something that would have a limited shelf life and no commercial benefit.

DaveReidUK

They did this when the -200's retired.


https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....19566c4e1b.jpg
https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/8773530

The then FM(Tech) later FOD was involved - I didn't see it so have no photos - there must be some somewhere however..

Great - someone posted the picture - at least it confirms the memory is not as fallible as I thought!

Thanks for that.

So the Speedbird tail and BOAC titles applied over the Landor livery minus the Speedwing. That makes a lot more sense than repainting the whole aircraft in the BOAC scheme.

Cheap and cheerful but at least they had a go! Not enough gold for the BOAC lettering.

No wonder their TriStars wore a smile :)

Lovely image of a beautiful aircraft. Interesting cloud formation behind the tail.
https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....8b8cef0328.jpg

A little wing-flex there wouldn't have gone amiss. Nice piece of art though.

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....1f54c8746.jpeg

Tri-Stars were three holers too. ;)

In the old days, Southwest in-flight magazine had a centre-spread of the (fully clothed) Stewardess of the Month.

I was living in Vietnam when Vietjet started up. They had an inspired campaign using models wearing bikinis in Vietjet colours. They did photo shoots and also had them dancing in the aisles on one flight. An appropriate government department was morally outraged and fined them 20 million dong! Since that is less than $1000, it was very cheap PR!

This ^^^^ almost converted me to Airbus - and Canon.

Most if not all were also on board postcards

Yes, but, if I remember it right, these were all made from paintings/drawings ( BOAC ). Here we are talking about size 8 x 10 press photographs.
Postcards are a totally different department.

I so hope they do one of them in a BEA red square scheme.....will look great parked next to that lovely retro-scheme Lufthansa A321 (if its still around as not seen it at LHR for a while?) and the retro scheme Air Lingus one.

Here's how an A380 might look in the 'red square' livery:

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....7657241b9b.jpg
https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....90bd4aa1e4.jpg

Free download of kit available here: BEA A380

'orrible!!

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No, me too. Actually, the "Red Square" (non-soviet) scheme on the A320 looks great.

Referring to the 742 that was repainted.
I'd say that then, as now, it all gets written off on the PR budget.

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When I was working in IT in a fancy London West End department store, the budget for the main window dressing seemed limitless. They were changed every six weeks thoughout the year and no one ever questioned. For us, in the backroom, trying to get funding for new IT (1980s) it was always an uphill stuggle. They said the windows brough the customers in and our point that we made the store function and service the customers was ignored. When I did a contract for a major UK High Steet chain in the 1990s? Same story.
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Given that it was a pretty minimal repaint (just the tail and logo, in fact I've seen reports that it was only applied on one side), it was probably paid for out of petty cash. :O

Well, at least some of the Flight Attendants are wearing shear hose.

G-AWNA
 

The repainted 747 above is a -100, you can tell by the Pratts hanging on the wing.

Are you sure, I didn't think they built -100s with the ten upper deck windows per side.

G-AWNA is without doubt a 747-136. I have flown it many times, but not in those colours.

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://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....768c2ea665.jpg

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

Yes, as I mentioned in a couple of previous posts, that's the logical conclusion. The only question is which of the BEA liveries BA will choose.

Given that we know 3 747s and one A319 will go retro, I suspect that as well as the BOAC 747, we'll see the Landor and Negus schemes on the other two Boeings and (hopefully!) the BEA Red Square on the Airbus.

BEA had widebodies as well (L1011)

One was painted in BEA colours as a demonstrator and 6 were ordered for Q4 1974. None were delivered as BEA ceased operations some time before the due date.

"Tristars were three holes too..." OMG.........

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....000e8d8ad8.jpg
This is making the rounds on another forum. Shame it's going on the B744. The landor livery would look so classy on the 380.

Porterboy,
That looks really good. By far the best BA colour scheme after the merger.

And a nice tribute to Queen, Freddy would be proud

It will look equally classy on a B744. In fact it did for ten years or so ... :O

But I agree that a retro livery has the most impact when applied to a type that has never worn it.

Maybe BA will have more imagination than we give them credit for - imagine a 747 in either of the two schemes (white tail/blue tail) that the Stratocruisers, Britannias, etc, wore.