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Post by Erik Ingram - HJG on Jan 17, 2023 20:56:53 GMT
...So upon further investigation, it appears that all of our current Northwest experimental DC-9-50s aren't quite correct. A while back I found some new images that necessitated some changes, which I'm now able to present here. There were two variants, one with a light gray base and the other with dark gray, which differed in their logo and title treatments. Here are the definitive versions of each, as far as I was able to determine: N787NC, 1994. This was the dark gray base, with logos in all-white on the left side, and all-red on the right.   N761NC, seen circa 1995, had red titles on both sides, but the logos were different.   |
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Post by aerofoto - HJG Admin on Jan 20, 2023 6:02:42 GMT
Time for a few more  Official portraits relating to Erik's latest DC-8's (in the form of a KLM/VIASA -32 and both 1969 and 71 UAL liveried -33's, a DC-10 (in VIASA's final/best very), as well as a KC-135R (actually the prototype -135R of 1982) .... as follows .... KLM ROYAL DUTCH AIRLINES/VIASA VENEZUELA (interchange) DC-8-32 PH-DCG "Gulielmo Marconi" (1961) UNITED AIR LINES DC-8-33 N8243U (1969) UNITED AIR LINES DC-8-33 N8258U (1971) VIASA VENEZUELA (final scheme) DC-10-30 YV-137C (1994) USAF - AIR FORCE SYSTEMS COMMAND TEST SQUADRON KC-135R (prototype) 61-0293 (1982)  A couple of historical notes. UNITED AIR LINES DC-8-33 N8234U was formerly PAN AMERICAN N805PA "Clipper Nightingale" (built as a -32 and later upgraded to a -33) .... temporarily renamed "Clipper Prague during 1965 .... then renamed "Clipper Nightingale" (again) later during 1965 and prior to being sold to UNITED AIR LINES during 1968 and with whom it served until 1975. UNITED AIR LINES DC-8-33 N8258U was formerly SAS OY-KTB "Bue Viking" (also built as a -32 and later upgraded to a -33) and which was also sold to UNITED AIR LINES during 1968 and with whom it served until 1974. "THANKS" Erik  Still more to come Mark C AKL/NZ |
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Post by aerofoto - HJG Admin on Jan 20, 2023 23:27:18 GMT
A few more .... all of which are Vliegende Hollander/Flying Dutchman associated Official portraits relating to more of Erik's latest DC-8's in the form of KLM ROYAL DUTCH AIRLINES operated -53's and -55's .... featuring PH-DCN supporting the airlines 1962 livery (delivery scheme), the split identity liveried KLM/VIASA PH-DCM of 1967, and the leased PH-DCY supporting the airlines 1972 livery .... KLM ROYAL DUTCH AIRLINES DC-8-53 PH-DCN "Dr Albert Sweitzer" (1962) KLM ROYAL DUTCH AIRLINES/VIASA VENEZUELA DC-8-53 PH-DCM "Henry Dunant" (1967)  KLM ROYAL DUTCH AIRLINES DC-8-53 PH-DCY "Anthony Fokker" (1972) Some historical notes. PH-DCN was originally destined for NORTHWEST AIRLINES (N807US) but not taken up. It was ultimately delivered to KLM (PH-DCN "Dr Albert Sweitzer) during January 1962. Leased to NIGERIA AIRWAYS from August until November 1970. Leased to GARUDA ("Bali") from April 1972 until July 1974. Leased to AEROPERU (OB-R-962) from May 1975 until June 1975 .... and again leased to AEROPERU (OB-R1116) from June 1976 until August 1976 when it was then sold to AFRICAN SAFARI AIRWAYS (5Y-BAS). PH-DCM (named "Henry Dunant") was delivered to KLM during June 1961. It was jointly KLM/VIASA operated between 1967 and 1974 and supported a split identity livery (KLM port side and VIASA starboard side) .... then leased to VIASA (YV-C-VIG .... later re-registered YV-129C) from July 1975 until until March 1984 when it was then sold to INTERNATIONAL AIR LEASES (N4983D). It was scrapped during May 1985. PH-DCY was originally delivered ONA (N2310B) during June 1966. It was sold to GARUDA (PK-GJD "Siliwangi") during July 1966. Leased to KLM (PH-DCY "Anthony Fokker") from March 1969 until May 1973 when it was returned to GARUDA (re-registered PK-GEA "Siliwangi). "THANKS AGAIN" Erik Still a few more to come Mark C AKL/NZ |
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Post by alex94 on Jan 21, 2023 0:57:47 GMT
Wonderful paints there! |
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Post by Erik Ingram - HJG on Jan 21, 2023 23:55:58 GMT
One new one for now, in the form of VC-137B 58-6971, circa 1980. As with the VIP C-135s of the time, they received this more subdued white scheme while President Jimmy Carter was in office. In this scheme, it was also used to return some of the 52 US Embassy hostages to the US in January 1981.  |
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Post by aerofoto - HJG Admin on Jan 22, 2023 5:25:20 GMT
Some more Vliegende Hollander's/Flying Dutchmen .... official portraits of Erik's latest DC-8-55F's in the form of KLM ROYAL DUTCH AIRLINES liveries covering the 1968 through 78 decade (including PH-DCZ as it appeared during 1978 after pure freighter conversion .... not the same as the version we already host ) And also this time including couple of DC-8 SUPER 63CF/F subjects .... one of which is from the mid 70's whilst the other's from more recent times. All of which are as follows .... KLM ROYAL DUTCH AIRLINES DC-8-55F PH-DCS "Alfred Nobel" (1968) KLM ROYAL DUTCH AIRLINES DC-8-55F PH-DCT "Pierre De Coubertin" (1973) KLM ROYAL DUTCH AIRLINES CARGO DC-8-55F PH-DCZ "Hans Christian Andersen" (1978) SATA DE TRANS:PORT AERIEN GENEVE/FLYING TIGER LINE DC-8 SUPER 63CF N791FT (1975) AIR CHARTER EXPRESS DC-8 SUPER 63F (PF) 9G-AXB (2008) Some historical notes .... PH-DCS (named "Alfred Nobel") was delivered to KLM ROYAL DUTCH AIRLINES during July 1964. Leased to PHILIPPINE AIRLINES from February 1977 .... and then sold to PHILIPPINE AIRLINES (RP-C843) during June 1977. PH-DCT (named "Pierre De Coubertin") was delivered to KLM ROYAL DUTCH AIRLINES during August 1964. Leased to NIGERIA AIRWAYS from June 1971 until August 1971. Leased to VIASA VENEZUELA from from February 1978 until May 1978. It was sold to RICH INTERNATIONAL AIRWAYS (N29953) during July 1983. PH-DCZ was originally delivered SAS (OY-KTC named "Gorm Viking") during March 1966. It was sold to KLM ROYAL DUTCH AIRLINES (PH-DCZ named "Hans Christian Andersen") during April 1970. And sold to INAIR PANAMA (HP-927 "El Flaco") during July 1981. N791FT was delivered to FLYING TIGER LINE during March 1969. Leased to AMERICAN FLYERS from May 1969 until April 1970. Leased to SATA DE TRANSPORT AERIEN GENEVE from July 1975 until November 1975. Leased to EL AL from March 1979 until April 1979. It was sold to NATIONAL FUNDING CORPORATION during March 1984 .... converted to a DC-8 SUPER 73CF .... then leased to EMERY WORLDWIDE from April 1984. 9G-AXB was an EASTERN AIR LINES original (a non-freight door featured DC-8 SUPER 63PF) .... delivered to the airline during December 1969 (N8757). It was sold to SAS ("Bue Viking") during February 1974 .... and re-registered LN-MOF during August 1979. Leased to SCANAIR ("Thyra Viking") from May 1980 until November 1981. Leased to ICELANDAIR from September 1982 .... and sub-leased to AIR ALGERIE .... returned to ICELANDAIR .... and then sub leased once again to AIR ALGERIE also during October 18th 1982 .... and then returned to SAS on October 18th 1982. It was again Leased to SCANAIR from November 1987. Sold to AEROLEASE FINANCIAL GROUP during April 1989 .... and converted to a DC-8 SUPER 63F (PF) .... then leased to CHALLENGE AIR from July 1989 until October 1990. Leased to ARROW AIR from November 1990 until April 1992. Leased to AIR TRANSPORT INTERNATIONAL from May 1982 until October 1992. Leased to AIRBORNE EXPRESS from November 1992 .... then sold to AIRBORNE EXPRESS (N815AX) during April 1993. Transferred to ABX AIR during August 2003. Sold to AIR CHARTER EXPRESS during May 2007. Then sold to MERIDIAN AIRWAYS during October 2009. It was withdrawn from service during July 2010 and stored at Ostend, Belgium, and scrapped during May 2013. "THANKS ONCE AGAIN" Erik This all now see's me finally caught up to Erik .... until I next need to catch up with him again Mark C AKL/NZ |
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Post by Erik Ingram - HJG on Jan 25, 2023 6:35:06 GMT
In addition to the many AirTran variants we already host, here are a couple more! In June 2009 blogger/comedian Mark Malkoff spent the month flying on AirTran planes, logging 135 flights in that span and posting various updates along the way. Shortly thereafter, N927AT received decals with his picture to commemorate the event and promote their then-new inflight wi-fi system.  From 2010, N925AT got these decals to celebrate the opening of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at the Universal Orlando theme park. The outer halves of the engines were covered to match (as with most things, everything was just decals), and the scheme as a whole stemmed from AirTran's relationship with Orlando's tourism board.  |
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Post by aerofoto - HJG Admin on Jan 25, 2023 19:30:17 GMT
I "DO" rather fancy those hybrids and logo jets .... but .... "that's me" Mark C AKL/NZ |
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Post by doremy on Jan 25, 2023 23:50:13 GMT
One new one for now, in the form of VC-137B 58-6971, circa 1980. As with the VIP C-135s of the time, they received this more subdued white scheme while President Jimmy Carter was in office. In this scheme, it was also used to return some of the 52 US Embassy hostages to the US in January 1981. |
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Post by Erik Ingram - HJG on Jan 29, 2023 18:28:01 GMT
Speaking of hybrids... Between 1983 and 1985, Midway Airlines operated a subset of DC-9s and MD-80s in "Midway Metrolink" service, a 4-abreast business class service similar in concept to the dearly-departed Midwest Express. At the time of its introduction, Midway also experimented with using the Metrolink paint job for everything, which resulted in this variant from 1983 on N1060T:  On N1067T, we have the standard version:  After its discontinuation, several of the planes simply had the Metrolink titles removed once returned to regular Midway service:  |
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Post by aerofoto - HJG Admin on Feb 9, 2023 4:45:25 GMT
Time (for me) to start playing "CATCH UP TO ERIK" once again .... per the following official portraits of his latest masterpieces in the form of the following USAF VC-137B, and both 1960 and 1961 NORTHWEST ORIENT AIRLINES liveries for the DC-8-32 .... as follows .... USAF 89TH MILITARY AIRLIFT WING VC-137B 58-6971 (1980)  NORTHWEST ORIENT AIRLINES DC-8-32 N802US (1960) .... delivery scheme  NORTHWEST ORIENT AIRLINES DC-8-32 N804US (1961) .... revised scheme  The VC-137B is "NEW". Both NWO DC-8-32's are "RE-DO's" of our current offerings of these subjects. Given our original/currently downloadable textures for these two are now some 20 years old .... these "V2 RE-DO's" are of vastly superior quality .... and more authentic as well. Several more to follow .... as and when I can find time to address them. ALSO .... A lot of new textures have been accumulated since mid November last year (since the cut-oof date for files included within our December/Christmas 2022 release). Given some of us have "other priorities" at the moment it's going to take a us "a while" to get everything released, but, we'll "get there" .... eventually ... as we "always do" "THANKS"Erik Mark C AKL/NZ |
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Post by alex94 on Feb 9, 2023 19:49:01 GMT
Wonderful paints there. There’s a bunch of repaints that need a re-do to to do justice to the new models. But I know this would probably be an unrealistic undertaking.
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Post by aerofoto - HJG Admin on Feb 9, 2023 21:10:38 GMT
That's "TRUE" .... but the reality is just as you concluded by saying .... so before anyone asks I'll simply state the following .... Some have already been re-done .... and re-released. A few others have also been done .... with their re-release still pending. Yet others "MAY" (possibly .... no promises) be re-done also. But it's unlikely the oldest among everything we offer will all get such attention. It's "not" something open to requests either. It all depends upon whether or not team members desire to re-do what they've each personally done previously .... or re-do what's been done and released during during much earlier years. Such re-releases need to be "PLANNED" and accommodated "bit by bit" though .... otherwise we're at risk of ending up with a stack of re-do's potentially equivalent in volume to that of any typical HJG release/website update and which is what we want to try'n avoid .... especially when we've got as much work to be released in the near future as we currently have on hand at the moment  The handling/administration of any large quantities of files can be "a very tiring and imposing process" .... and which after a while can/does have an impact upon "those whose task it is to try'n attend to everything" Your "ENTHUSIASM AND APPRECIATION for, and of, what we try to do in order to please everyone "IS" noted and appreciated though Mark C AKL/NZ |
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Post by aerofoto - HJG Admin on Feb 10, 2023 2:23:57 GMT
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Post by aerofoto - HJG Admin on Feb 17, 2023 7:38:43 GMT
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