Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)

[lloyd h]

perdu said:

Lovely one Lloyd, superb

No excessive PP here either


(can't add to the FB comments, not a 'user')

Thanks!

Turns out I was being stupid and just couldn't see the new embed thing on flickr!

[M42TYN]

Taken at Wings & Wheels, Dunsfold 2012

[M42TYN]

Taken at Wings & Wheels, Dunsfold 2012

[Dr Jekyll]

Something odd here

[onyx39]

Dr Jekyll said:

Something odd here

Clearly a photoshop
On top of everything else, G-CIVE was not registered till 1994!

Edited by onyx39 on Sunday 6th April 21:14

[Eric Mc]

Only the 747-100s (delivered 1970/71) were flown in BOAC colours.

By the time the 747-200s and later 400s arrived, BOAC had long since been absorbed into British Airways.

[Ayahuasca]

Eric Mc said:

Only the 747-100s (delivered 1970/71) were flown in BOAC colours.

By the time the 747-200s and later 400s arrived, BOAC had long since been absorbed into British Airways.

My first flight in a B747 was in 1973 - can't remember whether it was BOAC or BA.

[PRTVR]

I think I read somewhere it was only half painted, in commemorate of when it started in service ,this was its last flight.

Edit to add

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/BA%27s+first+jumbo+j...

Edited by PRTVR on Sunday 6th April 22:10

[Eric Mc]

It would have been BOAC in 1973 - although the transition to BA was already happening. The decision to merge BEA and BOAC was made in 1971. The new airline was to be called "British Airways" and a British Airways Board was set up in 1972 to oversee the merger.

Aircraft started losing their separate BEA and BOAC logos in 1973 - although they retained the underlying colour schemes. The new BA colour scheme was released at the beginning of 1974 and the first aircraft painted in the new scheme started to appear in April/May of that year.

It took quite a few years for the old schemes to completely disappear and there were still aircraft floating around as late as 1978 still with remnants of their BEA/BOAC schemes.

Other airlines that were merged into the new BA were -

Cambrian Airways
Northeast Airways
BEA Helicopters
BEA Airtours

Here are some example of the hybrid schemes that could be seen in the mid 1970s -

[Rockstar]

kooky guy said:

Pretty sure they're not defunct. They've just returned one of the other Lightnings to flight.

You're right, the company took a bit of a dip but they're not defunct.

After the tragic accident when one of the Lightnings was lost the other two airframes were still flying but they were grounded for safety concerns suspending their commercial ops of the Lightnings for a while. One has been thoroughly overhauled and is flying again.

[Dr Jekyll]

PRTVR said:

I think I read somewhere it was only half painted, in commemorate of when it started in service ,this was its last flight.

Edit to add

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/BA%27s+first+jumbo+j...

That was my first thought but that was a series 100, not a 400.

[NDT]

onyx39 said:

Clearly a photoshop
On top of everything else, G-CIVE was not registered till 1994!

Edited by onyx39 on Sunday 6th April 21:14

BA anniversary celebrations?

[onyx39]

NDT said:

onyx39 said:

Clearly a photoshop
On top of everything else, G-CIVE was not registered till 1994!

Edited by onyx39 on Sunday 6th April 21:14

BA anniversary celebrations?

It seems it was a screenshot from a flight sim.

[Eric Mc]

BA will only paint their operational aircraft in "retro" BA schemes. So far, they have painted one 757 (now retired) in the original BA scheme.

Since it came into being in 1974, BA has had four basic schemes -

The original which lasted (with some changes) from 1974 to 1984-




The "Landor" scheme which was introduced in 1984 and remained in use until 1997 -



The much derided multi-ethnic "Utopia" scheme which came in dozens of different versions -



And the current "Chatham Dockyard" scheme which was introduced as part of the "Utopia" initiative but which has become the standard scheme once the "Ethnic" tails were abandoned -

[Dr Jekyll]

When did BA retire their last ex BEA aircraft?

[Bisonhead]

onyx39 said:

It seems it was a screenshot from a flight sim.

Correct, took me a while to see it but quite clear now!

Amazing how flight sims have come along, that is a very impressive shot and fooled many on here, myself included!

[PanzerCommander]

Bisonhead said:

onyx39 said:

It seems it was a screenshot from a flight sim.

Correct, took me a while to see it but quite clear now!

Amazing how flight sims have come along, that is a very impressive shot and fooled many on here, myself included!

It's not a flight sim, can't be, even next generation graphics don't come close to that level of realism, they may have taken the "skin" from a flight sim aircraft and adapted it but that’s a doctored photo.

http://www.cardatabase.net/modifiedairlinerphotos/photos/big/00011375.jpg

The clue for me is in the URL.

I'm certainly not aware of anything that good currently available (not to the home user anyway). MS stopped at FSX (aside from an unpopular "sim" they released a bit afterwards) and even on max graphics with photoreal everything it doesn't look that close to real.

X-Plane has been in more continual development, is good but not that good. There is a Lockheed modification of FSX (forget the name) but again it uses the FSX engine as its base.

Edited by PanzerCommander on Tuesday 8th April 13:50

[Eric Mc]

Dr Jekyll said:

When did BA retire their last ex BEA aircraft?

I would expect it was with the retirement of the BAC 1-11 fleet - which would have been the early/mid 1990s.

[jogger1976]

[Scotty2]

Anyone know if the problems in the Ukraine are affecting the 225?

Still gutted I only saw it parked up at Manchester. Took time off to watch the take off but it was delayed. The video of the take off compensated a little.

O/T Is the Breitling Constellation due in the UK this summer?