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I think that's only something the nerds would have noticed.

So they used CGI to put BA livery on a VS plane that looks to have been taken at LHR T5 where there would have been 'real' BA planes lined up?

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CGI is often cheaper and easier to work with than the real thing.

The VS ads are also CGI too - you only have to look at the completely wrong aircraft middle landing gear towards the end of the 'Where's Linda?' latest VS ad to see it's CGI.

Miss G wrote:I think that's only something the nerds would have noticed.

I will bet there are a few hundred on here who would have noticed my dear Miss G, including, perchance, both you and me! y)

What with this and eclairgate, what an exciting week it has been on the periphery of aviation. Definitely time to open a bottle. y)

But the BA spokesman says

“No version of the ad showed any aircraft in the livery of another airline"

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HWVlover wrote:

Miss G wrote:I think that's only something the nerds would have noticed.

I will bet there are a few hundred on here who would have noticed my dear Miss G, including, perchance, both you and me! y)

What with this and eclairgate, what an exciting week it has been on the periphery of aviation. Definitely time to open a bottle. y)

hahaha!

I posted this earlier in the relevant thread in the BA section of this site:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2041597/The-20m-new%3Cacronym%20class=%27id22%27%20title=%27BA:%20British%20Airways%27%3E-BA%3C/acronym%3E-promotion-campaign--uses-rival-Virgin-plane.html

The comments are exactly as one would expect...

mitchja wrote:The VS ads are also CGI too - you only have to look at the completely wrong aircraft middle landing gear towards the end of the 'Where's Linda?' latest VS ad to see it's CGI.

I noticed this recently in a freebie calander... A340-300 wheel setup on a -600 aircraft type I think it was. Or vice versa.

tontybear wrote:So they used CGI to put BA livery on a VS plane that looks to have been taken at LHR T5 where there would have been 'real' BA planes lined up?

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Did wonder that.. all for a shot on the ad that lasted for what must have been no more than 2 seconds! ?|

Goes to show how great the BA 744's would look with P&W engines instead of those ugly Rolls-Royce ones they currently have !

tontybear wrote:So they used CGI to put BA livery on a VS plane that looks to have been taken at LHR T5 where there would have been 'real' BA planes lined up?

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I'm confused too - albeit that 747s rarely line up at the main T5 terminal (they tend to use T5B and c), and that shooting this for real may have been much more costly to line up the aircraft and get the cameras in place, disrupting groundops.

Also, it's not like there aren't thousands of pictures of BA 747s to CGI from ... and then the BA body paint is white, whereas VS has the light grey, so how could VGAL have actually ended up there. Methinks something more subversive in the design studio :w .

seany wrote:Goes to show how great the BA 744's would look with P&W engines instead of those ugly Rolls-Royce ones they currently have !

VS 744's have GE engines

Right you are ! Not sure why I had P&W on my mind.

So, the version released in the cinemas still has G-VGAL as its registration... ooops.