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Old 11th August 2008, 11:52 AM
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Default Air France 777F

First 777F airline in livery has been painted for Air France
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must say it does look really good looking forward to see the Fedex 777

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Air-F...F28/1377786/M/

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Air-F...F28/1377787/M/

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Old 11th August 2008, 04:14 PM
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Has been painted for a couple of weeks now but just sitting idle on the ramp awaiting first flight.
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Old 12th August 2008, 03:58 PM
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Test flown down to BFI today to continue flight testing of the model along side the 777-200LRF. Both were up today.
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Old 14th August 2008, 03:25 PM
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Okay here is a close up I took today for the 777 lovers!
Boring unedit JPEG though. RAW's all mine.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bfiguy/2762155722/sizes/o/

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Old 14th August 2008, 03:50 PM
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Quite interesting that they use the very generic model name of B777F, and not B777-200LRF. (Or even -200F)

Would seem to indicate that Boeing are not intending to offer any other B777 variants as freighters, so I just thought a model name of -200LRF would be more future-proof.

How does this compare with the introduction of other new-build freighter aircraft from Boeing? Did they start out with the generic model name or with the more specific model name?
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Old 14th August 2008, 07:17 PM
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Would seem to indicate that Boeing are not intending to offer any other B777 variants as freighters, so I just thought a model name of -200LRF would be more future-proof.
Yeh, I thought about that too, but other than the -200LRF, what other 777 freighter would be worth building? There's no point in creating a 777-300ERF because the 747-8F fills that mission and then some.

So as cool as a 777-200LRF sounds, I don't think there will be any issue with abbreviating the aircraft to '777F' because there won't be any other 777 freighter model (except for a further update 777-200LRF if Boeing decides to go down that path to respond to the A350-1000 and -900F).


It's great to see the 777F in the Dreamliner livery... will this be a permanent thing for that aircraft with just an Air France tail, or will it be painted into AF colours prior to delivery (ala first 772LR for PA)?

I've read that the first 787 for ANA will remain in Dreamliner colours (bar the tail), so is this a new thing Boeing wants to do with new models/variants? If so, I like!
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Old 14th August 2008, 07:30 PM
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I would think airlines wouldnt be all too happy flying their planes around with only the tail to identify them....
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Old 14th August 2008, 08:03 PM
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I would think airlines wouldnt be all too happy flying their planes around with only the tail to identify them....

Well not every aircraft, just one of them. Look at China Airline's 747 in hybrid Dreamliner livery. Lion Air with hybrid Dreamliner livery....and it's pretty much official that this will also be the case for the first 787.

Why would you think airlines wouldn't be happy about it having one of their aircraft in such a livery?

China Airlines 747:


Lion Air 737:


Air Berlin 737:
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Boeing gives substantial discounts on these aircraft for them to stay in Dreamliner liveries, so the airlines are often happy to do it.
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Boeing gives substantial discounts on these aircraft for them to stay in Dreamliner liveries, so the airlines are often happy to do it.
Ahh, i thought that must have been the case! Some pretty cheap publicity for Boeing then, considering all they really lose is the discount which is costs related rather than shelling out loads for advertising! That and if its there to stay for the life of the plane, it could easily be 20+ years.
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