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Old Dec 19, 2002, 12:47 am
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by thoglette:
At BNE on Monday night & saw a "white tail" 744 with Qantas painted on the cabin & standard QF markings on engines.

Hull was white with dark blue underbody & engine nacelles. Tail had been yellow/blue/white, going by bits remaining on the tail.

I presume that this bird is ex-BA?
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Didn't someone say that ATC at LAX had thrown a wobbly one day a couple of months ago when someone mistook it for a BA-operated a/c and didn't realise that it's working for QF at the moment? The result was that the tail was whited out, almost as an emergency - it was done the same day before the a/c left LAX.

Can't remember where I got this from now, but it left a vivid memory after I'd stopped laughing.
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