Heavy Metal - Testing the boundaries of reality...

[matthw]

Trying a bit of editing with the upgraded PMDG 747-400:

QANTAS



Vintage Cathay Pacific on approach to Kai Tak



Matt

[Ian Warren]

The Kia Tak screen .. that can really work, specific before the airport was moved , it was always shrouded in smog and other contaminates in the harbour , a great scenery I have used for a long time but its a bloody goodie! .. both Great Screens Matt

[aerofoto]

Couldn't resist getting in on this particular act also .... BUT ... .witrh some "r--e--a--l--l--y heavy metal .... or shoulde I say "composite" \


QANTAS AIRWAYS A380 (definitive livery)







QANTAS AIRWAYS A380 ("G'day Texas" hybrid livery)







QANTAS AIRWAYS A380 ("Go Wallabies" hybrid livery)







And a few more from around the worrld too ....















.... including the "NEW" London/Los Angeles Double-Decker bus service ....







It's a worry when I get "bored" .... I know

Who knows what I'll dream up

So .... to further "test the bounderies of reality" .... here's a couple sights that'll likely never grace the worlds airways .... but then again .... who knows what the future might hold :-/











Both of my above airlines have introduced "NEW" liveries anyway, so, "IF" anything like this were ever to happen .... then .... they most certainly wouldn't look like as is depicted above.


Mark C
AKL/NZ & BOG CO

[Ian Warren]

Mark ! have you seen the size of the plastic tube of plastic cement they use ... takes fifty men to hold glue ... they then have to run along the dotted line really quickly, the first twenty five men hold the tube run slower while the other twenty five men in behind run faster hence squirting the glue/plastic cement along the join, then hundreds of other fella's quick pick up the part 1 and place it against part 2 .... That is how this plane is built.

[aerofoto]

The big "TUPPERWARE PLANE" .... and "PLASTIC FANTASTIC"

Mark C
AKL/NZ & BOG/CO

[Ian Warren]

When you compare the two, the 380 and the 747, that 747 wins simply for its rakish good looks .. Boeing's trademark building pretty all the way from the Fort, Super Fort, B-47s to the B-52 then all the way thru the 700 series

[LMerraine]

The 747 is sexy.

I'm sad I don't get to see her coming in any more.

The 787 is definitely a good looker as well.

[Ian Warren]

We do get to see the freighters once in a while ... think everyone agrees the 74 has that superb design look about it.

[aerofoto]

So far as AIRBUS's are concerned .... the A380 certainly lacks the inherited grace, or elegance, of its family predecessor and which started the line ....













.... nor these ....













.... or even these babe's (my own personal favorate among the wide bodies) either ....








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As for the B747's looks (versus the A380) .... WELL .... I s'pose it looks .... OK ....
















.... but .... IMHO the A380 "DOES" look much better "when actually viewed within the real world environment" than it appears in a lot of photo imagery, since what the camera produces (subject to the influence of various illusionary distortions) versus what the human eye/brain actually cause us to see, are often two very different visual perceptions as the psychology goes .... and .... at the end of the day, like it, or loathe it completely, the A380 does still represent quite an impressive feat of aviation engineering also.

That's just "my honest analysis"

Be a bloody boring world if we all walked, talked, thought, viewed, and perceived everythig alike though aye


[TEXTURE/MODEL INFORMATION[/b]

- The A300B's are all models by my colleague Erick CANTU, painted by my other colleague Eduardo ROCHA .... a yet unreleased HJG project.

- The L-1011 models are also by Erick CANTU .... painted by various artists in collaboration with my colleague Camilo LUENGAS .... most of which are available at HJG

- The B747-100 and -200 modes are by Hirodhi IGAMI/POSKY .... but the 7 AIR PACIFIC textures (each representing a different aircraft .... every B747 100/-200 ever operated/leased by FJ) are by Camilo LUENGAS and myself .... all of which are available from FS.COM.


Mark C
AKL/NZ & BOG CO

[Ian Warren]

I race out on my bike back in 1974 when the Airbus 300 prototype was doing its world tour stopping in Christchurch for a whiles , seen a few Tristars here last would have been early 2000's ..

[aerofoto]

The prototype A300B also came through AKL too .... supporting the then AIRBUS house livery of the period .... as I recall .... and during which period there aircraft (and AIRBUS generally) was really struggling to see .... in fact during 1 year, during the 1970's, only 2 aircraft were sold.

TAA was the only airline in our own part of the world to order the A300B .... but that was many years later .... around the mid 1980's and at around the same time ANSETT went the B767-200 way after Australia's internal civil aviation policy (which had, for many years prior, dictated that both ANSETT and TAA should operated the same aircraft types and fly similar schedules over the same routes) had been relaxed.

AEROCONDOR COLOMBIA became "the very first" Latin American airline to acquire and operate the A300B (replacing it's B707-120B's and B720B's on MIA services) .... from 1979 .... and although a 2nd aircraft was planned for delivery during 1980 .... the airline collapsed financially during early 1980.

By the early 1980's a number of major Asia/Pacific rim operators were flying the A300B .... PHILIPPINE AIRLINES, SINGAPORE AIRLINES, and TOA DOMESTIC AIRWAYS .... and things began to advance and look up for both the A300B, and AIRBUS too, from that point .... particularly following it's introduction of the A320 during the early 1980's.

Mark C
AKL/NZ & BOG CO