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PostPosted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 7:38 am
by nzropilot
Introducing Air New Zealand Airbus A320-232 F-WWDF (cn 4553) ZK-OAB in Air New Zealand's All Black 'livery'. The livery is uniquely kiwi and uniquely rugby, and will serve NZ well during the world cup next year. Its just a pity this will be a domestic only livery as I would have loved to have seen it pop up in countries around the world.

Not sure who's seen the video of the new livery on an A320 in Flight Simulator HERE.

Here's a picture of the aircraft in Toulouse, France (LFBO).


PostPosted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 7:52 am
by Naki
Looks great..and looks better in the flesh..thanks for posting

PostPosted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 9:26 am
by connor
It's got a flaiming french rego on it!!!!!

PostPosted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 9:45 am
by nzropilot
connor wrote:
QUOTE (connor @ Dec 23 2010, 10:26 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
It's got a flaiming french rego on it!!!!!

Don't worry it won't be there for long biggrin.gif

PostPosted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 9:51 am
by connor
phew, I can stop panicking now tongue.gif

PostPosted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 10:13 am
by nzropilot
BTW-Ribbon cutting of the new Air NZ B777 300ER as received from Boeing: http://twitpic.com/3ihsbt

PostPosted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 12:28 pm
by Ian Warren
Not much a fussball fan , but that photo off the Arbust climbing out dose make it look a little prettier .

PostPosted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 1:49 pm
by ardypilot
From mrcaviation:
QUOTE
Air New Zealand's first dedicated domestic Airbus A320-232 ZK-OAB has been snapped whilst on the move at Toulouse in the last 12 hours. It is set to arrive at Auckland on the afternoon of 31Jan from Toulouse via Gander, Denver, Los Angeles, Honolulu and Apia.[/quote]

PostPosted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 4:56 pm
by Bazza
Something about it doesn't quite fit for me...

Did they have to paint the white "door frames" on it....?

PostPosted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 5:03 pm
by nzropilot
Bazza wrote:
QUOTE (Bazza @ Dec 23 2010, 05:56 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Something about it doesn't quite fit for me...

Did they have to paint the white "door frames" on it....?


I wish they didn't as well but I guess they have to be able to see the aircraft in the dark?

PostPosted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 11:47 am
by LukeEYF
Hey, thought i would just let you all know when OAB Arrives in Auckland and Christchurch.

OAB will arrive in Auckland at 3:30pm on Tuesday. Later she will go on a flight around New Zealand on Sunday the 6th of Feb. I asked Rob Fyfe what the arrival time will be in Christchurch and he said 3.25pm. OAB will be in Christchurch for 50mins.

PostPosted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 2:11 pm
by HamiltonWest
LukeEYF wrote:
QUOTE (LukeEYF @ Jan 30 2011, 12:47 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Hey, thought i would just let you all know when OAB Arrives in Auckland and Christchurch.

OAB will arrive in Auckland at 3:30pm on Tuesday. Later she will go on a flight around New Zealand on Sunday the 6th of Feb. I asked Rob Fyfe what the arrival time will be in Christchurch and he said 3.25pm. OAB will be in Christchurch for 50mins.


Thanks for that info LukeEYF smile.gif

PostPosted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 2:27 pm
by andrewb
I don't think anyone's posted the link, but they plan to have live video from 3pm on Tuesday 1st Feb (as they did for the arrival of the 777-300ER) at the following link:

http://airnz.slipstream.co.nz/allblackplane/

PostPosted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 2:44 pm
by nzropilot
To bad I'll be out at that time sad.gif

PostPosted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 5:38 pm
by andrewb
nzropilot wrote:
QUOTE (nzropilot @ Jan 30 2011, 03:44 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
To bad I'll be out at that time sad.gif


Ah well I'm sure they'll upload the video later on to YouTube like they did with the 777. smile.gif

PostPosted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 6:15 pm
by FlyingKiwi
According to a current topic on Airliners.net, it's in Denver right now.

PostPosted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 1:56 pm
by HamiltonWest
andrewb wrote:
QUOTE (andrewb @ Jan 30 2011, 03:27 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I don't think anyone's posted the link, but they plan to have live video from 3pm on Tuesday 1st Feb (as they did for the arrival of the 777-300ER) at the following link:

http://airnz.slipstream.co.nz/allblackplane/


Video is streaming Live presently although - being 30 or so mins prior to arrival not much is going on - although getting some great aerial shots of auckland when they switch to the Helicam including a C-130 Landing at whenuapai.

PostPosted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 5:20 pm
by andrewb
Yeah the shot of the Hercules landing at Whenuapai was a nice bonus! They said the video should be uploaded to their YouTube channel later tonight or tomorrow.

PostPosted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 5:29 pm
by Splitpin
Theres something not right about a black civilian aircraft.....maybe its just me. And a black airbus is even worse............. winkyy.gif

PostPosted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 5:39 pm
by deeknow
That was fantastic coverage, better than the 777 footage I reckon. And re the 320 livery, I wasnt taken with it from stills and the overland repaint but in the live video it looked much more balanced, pretty mean. ninja.gif