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Old Mar 30, 2009, 11:40 am
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Anyone notice the winglet painted in white instead of UA livery winglet gradient blue ?
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Old Mar 30, 2009, 11:47 am
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Originally Posted by jasonheard
How old is this plane? Any new(er) 747's in the fleet?
Next month this plane will be 10 years old, not bad, compare to the oldest 744 in UA (N171UA) is almost 20 years old.
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Old Mar 30, 2009, 12:22 pm
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Originally Posted by DenverBrian
Wow...half done after 7 years.
The new livery was rolled out 2/18/04. But that's still 5 years. I think DL is aiming to have all planes repainted by end of 2012, and they started in 2007.

Back on topic.. the 747 looks good!
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Old Mar 30, 2009, 12:24 pm
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Originally Posted by MKE-MR
...which relates to a rotation question I was actually thinking about while sitting on this bird (N121UA) on Friday night.
I was on this HKG-SIN leg on Friday night too, in C. N121UA operated the ORD-HKG not SFO-HKG sector though, as I came in on SFO-HKG and we parked next to the *A livery bird.
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Old Mar 30, 2009, 12:26 pm
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Originally Posted by DenverBrian
Wow...half done after 7 years.
And I seem to still get about 90% battleship grey on my flights (mostly transpac).

for the other extreme, I haven't seen any America West paintjobs since about 18 months after their merger with US.
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Old Mar 30, 2009, 1:34 pm
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How are aircraft painted in *A livery referred to by air traffic controllers? "UAxxx" or something that alludes to the tail design?
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Old Mar 30, 2009, 2:23 pm
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Originally Posted by snic
How are aircraft painted in *A livery referred to by air traffic controllers? "UAxxx" or something that alludes to the tail design?
Air traffic controllers don't care how the plane is painted; they only care about the callsign. For commercial flights, 99.9% of the time, that's the airline and flight number (for example, "United 901").
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Old Mar 30, 2009, 2:27 pm
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Originally Posted by trainman74
Air traffic controllers don't care how the plane is painted; they only care about the callsign. For commercial flights, 99.9% of the time, that's the airline and flight number (for example, "United 901").
I'd say the answer is yes and no.

For example, NW planes are now being repainted into DL colors, even though the two airlines have not yet obtained a single operating certificate under Delta.

Until then, NW-registered airplanes retain the "NORTHWEST" callsign regardless of what livery they are wearing, and air traffic controllers, at least in the U.S., now call out "NORTHWEST 123 in Delta colors" as standard to avoid confusion.

Furthermore, sometimes certain controllers like saying "Lufthansa 456, follow the United Star Alliance 747..."
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Old Mar 30, 2009, 3:01 pm
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Originally Posted by N334AA
Nineteen B747s have been repainted in the new livery, with the remaining seven B747s to be completed by September.
At which time they can start over as some of the "newly painted" 744's are already peeling/missing paint.
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Old Mar 30, 2009, 3:08 pm
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Originally Posted by JettaTurbo
But why keep the blue engines?

I think that makes it look cheap.. or at least silly.
I agree, it looks a little "odd" with the darker tail fin.

Originally Posted by worldtrav
So that if they have to swap parts around between different planes you don't end up with a mismatched engine cowl.
Matching nose cones and/or engine cowlings can't be a huge concern within the fleet as its not uncommon to see planes with mismatched parts.

Originally Posted by jhayes_1780
And.... I think it is another way to identify the actual carrier. Several other *A carriers do this.
Neat I guess, but the huge UNITED on the side isn't enough?
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Old Mar 30, 2009, 4:06 pm
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The plane looks nice, even with the blue engines.
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Old Mar 30, 2009, 4:31 pm
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Originally Posted by drummingcraig
Neat I guess, but the huge UNITED on the side isn't enough?
Obviously it isn't, SQ *A livery planes actually has the SQ logo on the tail fin instead of the Star logo.
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Old Mar 30, 2009, 6:13 pm
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Sharp looking airplane...thanks for the pic!
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Old Mar 30, 2009, 8:38 pm
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Originally Posted by drummingcraig
\Neat I guess, but the huge UNITED on the side isn't enough?
The UNITED looks a lot larger when on the side of the UA Star 767 that I rode for travels to Europe last week.
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Old Mar 30, 2009, 8:44 pm
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Originally Posted by leech27
Y'know, I saw the plane in HKG on 3/24 at gate 63 and didn't even think about it .
Same here. Although maybe it was the 23rd... I've forgotten already.
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