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Post by Erik Ingram - HJG on Dec 2, 2020 20:32:41 GMT
Thank you! I've been neglecting this trio for a very long time now, so it's good to finally have them off my plate and into the sim world eventually! VH-TBH was one of Trans Australia Airlines' first batch of 727-200s, and it's seen here circa 1976 in the airline's modified "T-jet" livery. From May to December 1984, VH-RMZ was leased from Ansett for additional capacity. By then TAA had introduced the "camel hump" livery, and RMZ had it on the basic white Ansett livery of the time. In 1986, TAA rebranded to Australian Airlines, though it took quite a while to repaint the fleet. This is VH-TBO as seen in 1987, in the standard "camel hump" livery.
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Post by Nathan Ford - HJG on Dec 2, 2020 20:35:20 GMT
Oooooooooooh, my airline! Back flying as of next Monday. Love them 🥰
Cheers, Nathan
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Post by Erik Ingram - HJG on Dec 4, 2020 18:46:41 GMT
Thanks, and I'm happy to oblige! One more from Down Under, in the form of QantasLink (operated by Cobham Aviation) 717-2BL VH-YQT as seen this year in the new "silver roo" livery. I personally flew on this one quite a few times when it was still N917ME with Midwest.
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Post by aerofoto - HJG Admin on Dec 4, 2020 20:19:56 GMT
TAA's look great ! I thought "his airline" was the one with the red tail and "the giant West Island Rat" on the tail (?) .... just like the new titled/logo'd B712 Erik's just presented Mark C AKL/NZ
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Post by alex94 on Dec 4, 2020 22:54:35 GMT
West island rat Lovely representation of the aussie birds there erik
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Post by Nathan Ford - HJG on Dec 6, 2020 1:19:29 GMT
Hehe Mark, it is the good old Red Roo that I fly for, but being a S/H flight attendant, I was originally hired into Australian Airlines (TAA) with both Australian Airlines ID and Qantas Staff numbers. It wasn’t until after the “trigger” that I became full QF. It’s been a long nine months working in supermarkets, but it’s great to be back in the air 🤩
West Island Rat 🙄 My daughter saw wallabies in real life before she saw a kangaroo so being only 3-4 years old, every kangaroo was a wallaby in her eyes. The problem was she couldn’t say wallaby properly and used to say “wobbly.” She used to point at our aircraft and say, “there’s daddies wobbly plane.” This would also bring tears of laughter to our eyes when we would watch the Bledisloe Cup and she would sit there with us yelling “Go the Wobblies.”
Loving your repaints Erik
Nathan
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Post by Erik Ingram - HJG on Dec 8, 2020 20:52:42 GMT
Thanks guys! Here's N7064U of United circa 1982; at least one of almost every type in the fleet got the bare metal belly in the 1982-83 timeframe.
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Post by aerofoto - HJG Admin on Dec 9, 2020 8:34:38 GMT
What Erik's demonstrating here is an (apparently) "experimental" natural metal based lower fuselage scheme that was trialed by UA during the very early 80's .... including on the following DC-10-10 too (also painted by Erik) and which we re-released as an "upgraded" texture a couple of weeks ago .... This experimental natural metal lower fuselage scheme was never employed fleet-wide though (only to at least 1 aircraft type among the UA fleet at the time .... as Erik related) and the airline ultimately employed its predominantly white lower fuselage scheme instead .... and which was retained until around the mid to late 1990's. All part of the UA story/history .... and all justified by the "H" in "HJG" Mark C AKL/NZ
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Post by Erik Ingram - HJG on Dec 9, 2020 23:18:55 GMT
Here's one to just about complete the AirTran 717 lineup; in 2008 racecar driver Danica Patrick became the first woman to win an IndyCar race, the Indy Japan 300. AirTran, then a minor sponsor of her team, placed a decal of her on each side of N971AT, and added these "AirTranica" titles to the left side. These only lasted a few months before being removed.
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Post by Erik Ingram - HJG on Dec 13, 2020 23:47:23 GMT
One more new one for now, and fitting given the holiday shipping rush coming up: N311NE of Express One International operating for the US Postal Service circa 1999.
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