Originally Posted by
born sleepy
To be fair, the original Air Cal livery, when it was Air California, was pretty distinct vs the later swooshy tricolors and shortening the name.
I thought the later Air Cal livery was pretty nice. Bright, colorful, cheery, Californian... Certainly much better than the generic Euro white liveries that dominate today.
As for this centennial 77W, I don't like it at all. It looks gimmicky and ridiculous on a plane as large as the 77W (is it going to be paint or polished aluminum?)
I get history and I love retro paint schemes properly executed. But what looks good on a DC-3 might not on a 777. I would have preferred to see AA's initial jet age paint scheme. That 1959 AA scheme looked just as amazing on a 757 as it did on a 707. Imagine it would look good on a 777 - but only with buffed aluminum, not paint.
Edited to add:
Originally Posted by AA
At the base of the livery is the airline’s Silver Eagle® paint color, which is currently found on more than 1,600 aircraft in American’s mainline and regional fleet.
Morons at AA can't even get a retro livery right. Instead of polished aluminum they go with paint. And these dolts had to trademark their boring shades of grey as if someone is going to rush to steal their great Silver Eagle®
Speaking of paint, I was surprised at the extra cost of applying PPG's "Snow White" rather than Sherwin-Wiliams' "Matterhorn White", the latter being a bizjet mainstay.