Red Paint Question

Thanks for the info Tonty, you are a pool of knowledge. y)

Oh lordy dont go telling tonty that it will go to his fluffy/furry bear shaped head ):

cheers

alex

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v336/whisky110/Aircraft%20pictures/Virgin744VXLG015.jpg

Looks like VXLG could do with another trip in - Looks much worse now.

Photo courtesy of BigAL at DA.C

Thanks for the info Tonty, you are a pool of knowledge. y)

Oh lordy dont go telling tonty that it will go to his fluffy/furry bear shaped head ):

cheers

alex

GRRRRRRRRRRR

Still wish they had the flags on the wing tips!

I agree, loved that touch.

Thanks for the info Tonty, you are a pool of knowledge. y)

Oh lordy dont go telling tonty that it will go to his fluffy/furry bear shaped head ):

cheers

alex

HaHa, too funny

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v336/whisky110/Aircraft%20pictures/Virgin744VXLG015.jpg

Looks like VXLG could do with another trip in - Looks much worse now.

Photo courtesy of BigAL at DA.C

Looks like they might be carrying the work out at the moment... According to the status updates page G-VXLG is in MAN and not due to move again until 24/09.

Matt

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v336/whisky110/Aircraft%20pictures/Virgin744VXLG015.jpg

Looks like VXLG could do with another trip in - Looks much worse now.

Photo courtesy of BigAL at DA.C

Looks like they might be carrying the work out at the moment... According to the status updates page G-VXLG is in MAN and not due to move again until 24/09.

Matt

She's back out link

She's back out link

Thanks for the link McMaddog, she looks great.

I see that G-VAST is currently on her way to MAN as VS809, I assume to have the same 'fix' applied.

Quite an expensive mistake on someone's part! Hopefully now they appear to have resolved the issue they'll speed things up and get the rest of the fleet done!

Matt

Have any of the A346 had the new livery added to then yet? I have only seen two A343 African Queen and Madien Tokyo, sporting the new livery!

Does anyone know what happening?

Hi and welcome,

we are keeping track of all the repaints here

Hi and welcome,

we are keeping track of all the repaints here

Did you mean to link this thread to itself? ?|

[Neil]

Hi and welcome,

we are keeping track of all the repaints here

Did you mean to link this thread to itself? ?|

It was separate thread but I have now merged the two together

Didn't spot that! :w

If someone has posted thisbefore, apologies, if not, see Mustang Sally being painted in new livery.

If someone has posted thisbefore, apologies, if not, see Mustang Sally being painted in new livery.

It has been posted before, but it was good to watch it again.

I cried at that sad part, 53 seconds in, when you see them sandblasting the winglets and taking off the union jacks

Has VS ever said why they removed the Union Jack? It really seems like VS has become an airline that has lost it's roots.

Has VS ever said why they removed the Union Jack? It really seems like VS has become an airline that has lost it's roots.

You won't find much disagreement here about that, if Virgin America can find room for the Stars and Stripes, if VA can integrate the Australian flag in its livery, I think it's shameful that VS cannot. Silly perhaps, but those little winglets shared a little sense of pride.

The union flag is still carried at the front by the scarlet lady.

Has VS ever said why they removed the Union Jack? It really seems like VS has become an airline that has lost it's roots.

You won't find much disagreement here about that, if Virgin America can find room for the Stars and Stripes, if VA can integrate the Australian flag in its livery, I think it's shameful that VS cannot. Silly perhaps, but those little winglets shared a little sense of pride.

Guys this thread has mainly been about individual ac and their movements. If you want to have a general discussion about the vs livery could I suggest these get split out?

G-VAST is back out link

Looks the same to me...

Didn't think VAST had a problem with the paint. At least not in the same league as VXLG anyway.

Looks the same to me...

Didn't think VAST had a problem with the paint. At least not in the same league as VXLG anyway.

I imagine they have changed something in the repaint process since the problems with VXLG. As VAST was done before that they probably wanted to fix it incase it started peeling.

Let's hope it's all sorted now and we start to see some 346's going in!

Matt

Looks like VTOP may have finally gone into the paint shop - Flew to MAN on a positioning flight on 31/10 and hasn't moved since.

Matt

Interesting as I've had an e-mail re the new service - in the t&c's it states the vtop is retiring in 2013 and will have no refit. However 2 x a340-300 have been painted and they must be going soon with a330/787 arriving. Is there a rule about how often a plane should be painted?