Originally Posted by
jrl767
no one should really be too surprised to see that less-than-fully-accurate advertising and marketing "spin" on technical minutiae has been around for a long time
A recent real classic was the hugely expensive British Airways TV ad showing them from their earliest days to today, with a 747-400 at London Heathrow. For some bizarre reason the ad agency had taken film of a Virgin 747 and electronically changed the livery to BA (it's not as if the latter doesn't have enough 747s around Heathrow, is it .....?). Of course as soon as it was shown on TV all the cognoscenti said "GE engines - nonsense", and the game was up. BA PR had to make an apology
However, it gives me the chance to link to one of the best airline ads ever. The 747 blunder is at the 1:00 point.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XozHLoqwp_4
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...gin-plane.html