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Post by Erik Ingram - HJG on Apr 18, 2019 20:34:16 GMT
Got another pair of rare golden tails from the '70s ready to show off: 727-30 N18478, 1978- the other aircraft that wore the modified cheatline 727-51 N974PS, 1979. This was subleased from PSA in June 1979 to help make up for the grounded DC-10 fleet. By the end of the year it had received the full Continental livery, and stayed that way until it returned to Northwest Orient (its original owner) in 1982.
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Post by aerofoto - HJG Admin on Apr 18, 2019 22:24:09 GMT
"Proud Birds With Golden Tails" .... as I recall the late 70's/early 80's CO advertising proclaiming. "NICE" stuff Erick .... and God help the HJG/FS community if Erik ever, in the future, unleashes himself upon our B707's/B720's and DC-8's Mark C AKL/NZ
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Post by Mike Monce - HJG on Apr 19, 2019 12:35:09 GMT
I've always loved the COA golden tails since the 60's. I absolutely hate the gold globe in COAs last iteration and now carried forward with United. Isn't it time UAL changed their livery to something a bit better? Or, are they bound by some contractual agreement that happened during the merger?
Mike
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Post by Erik Ingram - HJG on Apr 25, 2019 0:40:20 GMT
Thanks as always for that, Mark! Here we have one of the more mysterious 727s ever to grace the skies; N5055 was one of three 727s operated by "Southern Air Transport" in the late 1960s. The company, which started out as a regular cargo carrier, was used by the CIA to support various covert operations in southeast Asia. N5055 was the only one to have a relatively normal life afterwards; it spent 22 years with Continental (mostly operating out of Guam) before being sold to Kelowna Flightcraft, who stored it for parts in 1997. This is how it appeared around 1967.
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Post by aerofoto - HJG Admin on Apr 25, 2019 3:20:44 GMT
Something for those "more covert type" FS operations .... perhaps Mark C AKL/NZ
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Post by Erik Ingram - HJG on Apr 25, 2019 18:08:57 GMT
Yeah, the 727 definitely is a do-it-all kind of plane! Here are three more that used a more conventional unloading method, as operated by Emery Worldwide: 727-22C N427EX, 1986 727-22C N426EX, 1991 727-21F N329QS, 2001
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Post by Erik Ingram - HJG on Apr 26, 2019 19:59:28 GMT
Here's one of the uglier things I've ever painted...beginning in 1979, Southwest began leasing a small number of 727s from Braniff and other carriers. The later ones to join the fleet wore the normal livery (albeit with the titles moved to the forward fuselage; this version is already available in the library), but N406BN, which was the first, got this unpleasant ochre color and very '70s titles. 727-291 N406BN, 1979
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Post by aerofoto - HJG Admin on Apr 27, 2019 6:24:00 GMT
I wouldn't regard it as "ugly".
Certainly different from the other SWA B722 livery we offer .... and therefore an interesting historic accompaniment for it.
I didn't know about the that particular SWA variation with those scripted titles .... so once again .... a nice addition.
Mark C AKL/NZ
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Post by darrenvox on Apr 27, 2019 7:34:33 GMT
cool!!!
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Post by alex94 on Apr 29, 2019 21:51:35 GMT
Those paints are looking fantastic!
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Post by aerofoto - HJG Admin on Apr 29, 2019 22:28:43 GMT
YEP .... this man .... like all of our team .... do "a good job" Mark C AKL/NZ
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Post by Nathan Ford - HJG on May 2, 2019 5:12:33 GMT
The TranStar MD’s look really swish
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Post by Erik Ingram - HJG on May 2, 2019 20:51:06 GMT
Thanks everybody! Next three are ready for previewing: 727-185C TF-FLG, 1980- final Flugfelag livery with the new Icelandair titles and logo following the merger of the two The same aircraft as seen in 1983 in the full new Icelandair livery: USAir 727-214 Advanced N753US, 1990- Piedmont hybrid livery
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Post by aerofoto - HJG Admin on May 2, 2019 21:06:27 GMT
I like that first ICELANDAIR among the above B721 ensemble Mark C AKL/NZ
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Post by Erik Ingram - HJG on May 3, 2019 19:17:44 GMT
Thanks! That was definitely a nice one; I don't know that we'll ever see it, but it would look amazing on a 757 for an upcoming anniversary. I've always found this one equally fetching; cheatlines always look good on the Seven Two, and Royal Air Maroc's in particular were very well-done: 727-2B6 Advanced CN-CCH, 1974
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