John1 Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 Coming soon to an airport near you! Personally, I think this is one of the prettiest paint jobs ever flow on a 747. I flew similarly painted BOAC jets waaaaay back as a kid. Nice idea British Airways! PhilB, Out2gtcha and Model_Monkey 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 Tiz quite lovely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1 Posted February 18, 2019 Author Share Posted February 18, 2019 And she is flying.... For some reason, I just want to start singing some Beatles - "Flew into Miami Beach, BOAC.... ". DonH, Kagemusha, Out2gtcha and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotsman Posted February 19, 2019 Share Posted February 19, 2019 AAH Nostalgia .. I'm sitting here rembemering those markings the first time around, back in 1970 , god I'm old! Still love that scheme tho' PhilB 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilB Posted February 19, 2019 Share Posted February 19, 2019 (edited) The 707's and VC10's looked good in that scheme too. VC10's with the "Cunard" logo and nice to see the "Speedbird" logo on the tail. I also liked the 80's and early 90's scheme of grey uppers, dark blue lower with the nice red pinstripe through it. I remember when they binned that for the lighter blue and white uppers which always looked dirty. Edited February 19, 2019 by PhilB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Ron Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 Enjoy Out2gtcha, jimbo and John1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 Classy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabre F-86 Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 I remember those markings on 707s at Pearson Intl in Toronto. Back when i was a pup. Simple but elegant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1 Posted February 22, 2019 Author Share Posted February 22, 2019 First 747 I ever saw was a BOAC speedbird on the ground at Mehrabad Airport in Tehran. We were being bused to another plane and drove right by it. I was awestruck. Couldn’t believe something so big could get off the ground. What a beautiful bird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1 Posted February 22, 2019 Author Share Posted February 22, 2019 8 hours ago, Jennings Heilig said: What the heck were you doing at Mehrabad back then?? Lived there for 6 years as a very young kid. Pre-revolution, Iran hosted the largest US community outside of W Germany. Had our own schools, football/baseball leagues etc. 50-50 mix of US military advisers and civilians. My father worked for an engineering company, spent a good deal of time up north on various US funded projects. Good memories to be honest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1 Posted February 22, 2019 Author Share Posted February 22, 2019 (edited) 58 minutes ago, Jennings Heilig said: Interesting. My first cousin went to Tehran American School. My uncle worked on Project Ibis. Yup, TAS was my school! Looking back, I wonder if my dad had any involvement with that project, he'd routinely go away for a week or two up north, just said he was working near the Caspian Sea. Most of our military friends were US Army, based out of Ft Devens, MA (which until it closed, was home to the US Army's intelligence school). It was a great place to live, until it wasn't. Edited February 22, 2019 by John1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul fisher Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 I remember seeing V C-10s in this scheme flying out of SFO when i was a kid....Must have built the old Airfix kit four or five times over the years. jenshb 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1 Posted February 22, 2019 Author Share Posted February 22, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, Jennings Heilig said: Yep, I'd say it's likely he was on Ibis. Super spooky stuff. Lots of CIA and NSA involvement. My uncle was a former Russian linguist in the USAF and then went to work for NSA on Ibis, although his paycheck said Rockwell International (wink wink, nudge nudge). My cousin was Kathy Heilig at the time. I'll check my old yearbooks for her. We got out in late 76, by which time it was pretty apparent that bad things were about to happen. It was pretty surreal seeing the news clips of the US Embassy compound (where we spent a great deal of time shopping, hanging out, etc) being overrun. As a last ironic note - a few years back, I build an AH-6C Littlebird helicopter, based on info from one of the original TF160 pilots. After the Desert One fiasco, he was on deck for a follow up rescue mission and mentioned that he would have been flying his helo into the same compound! Sounded like he knew it as well as I did from all the pics he had studied. Getting back to the original topic, just saw that BA has another retro scheme coming up, I'm partial to BOAC but this one isn't too bad either! Undersides of the wings will be painted red as well. Might be some decal opportunities here! Edited February 22, 2019 by John1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1 Posted March 2, 2019 Author Share Posted March 2, 2019 Another classic paint job coming up: Out2gtcha and PhilB 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilB Posted March 2, 2019 Share Posted March 2, 2019 One of my favourite BA schemes. I was on my first "tour" at Heathrow in the late 80's when the first 400's arrived in those colours. In those days BA used to also name aircraft and the 747-400's were named after UK cities. The first was City of London, then Edinburgh, Cardiff and so on. I seem to recall the 757's were named after famous castles. Out2gtcha 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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