Crazy Airline Paintjobs

[AnonymousCruiser69]

I found this somewhat amusing. From CNN:

 

http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/24/travel/gallery/crazy-airline-liveries/index.html?hpt=hp_c4

[kenish]

About 10 years ago, 3M invented very large decals and the printing process. That led to all the custom and one-off liveries on planes, the "wraps" on cars, the the conversion of city buses to rolling advertisements. (I'm surprised that the ANZ All Blacks scheme is painted and not a decal, according to the caption).

 

Back in the day when SoCal was an aerospace empire, the McDonnell-Douglas factory was in Long Beach. My friend was an engineer in the paint department. Everything was done by masking, taping, and stenciling. The name of a Middle Eastern airline was painted backwards in Arabic script! It turned out the wrong side of the stencil was marked as the outside....at least it wasn't upside down too!

[brazilgirl]

Fun post!

[Zach1213]

I thought Wunala Dreaming was painted over and returned to normal Qantas livery?

 

Also, Air NZ has multiple planes of multiple types in the all blacks paint job. Back in November I flew in both an A320 and, I believe, ATR (42 or 72, can't remember) in that livery.

 

I miss the Western Pacific "The Simpsons" paint job myself...

[Scrapnana]

Thanks for the post. Quite a job getting all that on the plane.

 

kenish, thanks for explaining the process.

[Keith1010]

Thanks for sharing this.

 

Keith

[FlyerTalker]

You are correct....Wanula has gone.

 

But you can get the T-shirt HERE.