QF new livery

[Stuart Trevena]

Hi All,

Rowan - OEI Depart AVV Monday Night (2/4) @1950 as QF6196 to Sydney flying FL450

As she only arrived in AVV 26/3 as QF6195, I assume it was only light Maint done.

I did speak to a Boeing and QF Engineer in Lara and the Boeing person stated he was a Landing Gear Specialist and mentioned OEI was in the hanger.
From that info, I assume he was working on the Landing Gear on OEI, as he didn't know what other A/C was there.

Stuart

[Rowan McKeever]

Hey Stuart! Cheers for the extra info. FL450 is pretty impressive for a short sector, albeit a very lightly loaded B744ER!!! Bet the crew had fun with that :P

[Stuart Trevena]

Rowan,

I have noticed that a few of the AVV-SYD ferry flights have been at FL450.
For what reason I don't know.
The only reason I could think of was to keep away from RPT services

Anyone else know why they ops at FL450??

Stuart

[Jason H]

They filed FL410 but went up to FL450 for a short time.

[Jamie D]

I just read on airliners.net about qantas unveiling a special scheme on a a333 before the end of the year, has anybody here heard similair?

[Mark Grima]

Jamie,

See below.

Reply 238 in this very thread.

Cheers

M

Originally Posted by Sarah C

Here is your official answer from Travel Daily:

QF on Wunula livery

QANTAS says it “remains fully committed to showcasing the diversity of Indigenous art”, after confirming to TD that its Wunula Dreaming livery has now been removed from the skin of one of its Boeing 747-400 aircraft.
The vibrant Wunula Dreaming artwork had graced the QF 747 for nearly two decades.
“The paint scheme from Balaringi Studio had reached the end of its life and the aircraft has been restored to a standard Qantas livery,” a QF spokesman told Travel Daily today.
“We will unveil a new indigenous livery on a different aircraft by the end of 2012 and the Yananyi Dreaming aircraft - a Boeing 737 by Balarinji & Central Australian artist Rene Kulitja - continues to fly,” Qantas said.

And this.........

QANTASLINK is to reveal a new Q-400 ‘Golden Guitar’ livery tomorrow in celebration of the carrier’s launch of the 40th Tamworth Country Music Festival

[Paul C.]

Originally Posted by Anthony F

When Qantas have their planes resprayed overseas, does the origianl paint taken off to bare metal or do they scuff the existing paint and paint over it?

They are stripped to bare metal to keep the paint weight at the minimum.

VH-QOH the white is still the factory paint but the pink was added to the top.

[Steve S... 2]

Hi,

QF 763 VH-OGO is ACARS equiped as of today.

That makes seven QF 763's now with ACARS:

VH-OGK, OGN, OGO, OGR, OGS, OGU, OGV.

Regards,

Steve S

[Tim Bowrey]

An interesting photo has come up of ex VH-EBW flying for Iran Air in an odd hybrid.

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=7382091

[Tim Bowrey]

Apparently VH-OJU had her OneWorld decals removed today now to fly in standerd livery.