Now that's nice!

[matthat]

is it definitely paint used and not a wrap around like used on many commercial vehicles these days??

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Yeah yeah, but what was that behind with the high tail??

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

And here is the original subject of the thread in the air looking stunning!:

http://www.airliners.net/photo/WestJet/Boeing-737-8CT/2355248/L/

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Yeah yeah, but what was that behind with the high tail??

I think it's a bush

Hardly. There at Lasham at the same time, only a classic old '727!:

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Burk...1312973/&sid=eb3620d78b3448913f54d15fa9aa2762

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Blimey, you've got great eyesight

Not really, its a fairly distinctive old aircraft now (how many '727s are still about?), it has distinctive enough markings, the picture you posted was taken at Lasham on the 22nd of December 2007 with it sat behind. The picture I posted was on the 24th with it sat in front, it isn't rocket surgery.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

And a picture of it this June:

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Burk...2277353/&sid=d79145fb454555d009c6ddfa19d25e45

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I'm not sure I'd really want to fly in a plane run by Burkina Faso. I just wonder how safe it would be.

It has survived all these years has it not?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Ah yes........but one wonders how well it's been maintained. I hope it's in tip top condition for anyone who flies in it but I have my doubts.

Who knows, but it could be eminently more interesting than that Iron Maiden thingimybobber!!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I'm not sure I'd really want to fly in a plane run by Burkina Faso. I just wonder how safe it would be.

According to it's history it isn't as old as I thought, but it is still older than me!:

'CS-TBY was a Boeing 727-282/Adv, construction number 22430/1715. Delivered new to TAP Portugal on 2nd March 1981, this aircraft was named "Amadora". Withdrawn in December 1990, it was sold to Somali Airlines and re-registered as 6O-SCG. In June 1992, it was sold to to Carnival Airlines in the US and registered as N6167D. It was subsequently sold to Palace Air and registered as N727RE in May 1998. Then it was sold to Burkina Faso Govt and registered as XT-BFA in April 2005'.

See what you started?!

 

[swee'pea99]

I remember when Thatcher single-handedly kyboshed BA's programme of painting tail fins with striking designs from all over the world - part of their 'World's Favourite Airline' branding - by recoiling from a model and (if I remember correctly) draping a handerchief over the offending fin. BA, of course, dropped the whole initiative like a hot coal. Small-minded British provincialism goes global...

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I remember when Thatcher single-handedly kyboshed BA's programme of painting tail fins with striking designs from all over the world - part of their 'World's Favourite Airline' branding - by recoiling from a model and (if I remember correctly) draping a handerchief over the offending fin. BA, of course, dropped the whole initiative like a hot coal. Small-minded British provincialism goes global...

Ah the old BA 'Ethnic' tails. There was a bit more to it than that, BA is a recognised brand around the world, and they found that when pilots at airports were asked to follow the BA/use it as a reference point etc, there were suddenly a lot of confused pilots who couldn't see a BA aircraft tail, just a plane with a random design that could have been anything.

Besides, although some were lovely, other examples of those designs were bogging!