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Alaska Airlines’ new Star Wars-themed aircraft

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 Alaska Airlines made accurate use of May the Fourth – Star Wars Day – to unveil a brand new Star Wars-themed plane.

The plane has the long-lasting Millennium Falcon emblazoned on the tail chased by way of TIE warring parties and is a tie-in with Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, the latest land of adventure at Disneyland park.

The plane, with a tail variety of N538AS, has the Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge and Disneyland Resort logos within the middle of the fuselage. And you’ll see porgs, the adorable avian creatures that lived on Luke Skywalker’s far flung island, on both winglets. Another porg is on the boarding door.

Here’s a cool video showing the plane being painted.

To make this show up, it took 228 gallons of paint implemented throughout 540 paintings hours over 27 days.

(All images and video courtesy Alaska Airlines)

Brussels Airlines honors Flemish artist Bruegel with livery

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Brussels Airlines has a tradition of honoring Belgian icons on its airplanes.

So some distance, they’ve painted planes to honor Tintin, Magritte, the Red Devils, Tomorrowland and the Smurfs.

Now, Brussels Airlines has a sixth aircraft honoring a Belgian icon. This one is inspired by using Flemish painter Bruegel the Elder.

Each facet of the airplane has a extraordinary layout and there are snap shots each inner and out.

The Bruegel plane is a part of a bigger venture to promote the Flemish Masters in 2019 and 2020.

To do this, Brussels Airlines and VISITFLANDERS are offering the Hi Belgium Pass: The Flemish Masters Experience. The skip offers traffic the opportunity to fly to Brussels from 48 European towns, take limitless train rides to Belgian towns and go to a protracted list of cultural attractions free of charge, along with Flemish Masters exhibitions and collections across Flanders and Brussels.

One bonus enchantment: at Brussels Airport there’s an lively art installation at gate A40 that highlights the figures in Bruegel’s art.

United Airlines’ new livery

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United Airlines is having a display occasion in Chicago today to show the sector the carrier’s new livery.

But, thanks to the magic of Twitter, we’re all getting a pretty correct observe the design right right here.

More images will start acting online later today, but check the short videos and images United has shared already.

As United says, a key distinction is that the brand new layout ditches the gold, in favor of United blue.

What do you observed of the brand new design?

Vote for a United plane layout

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There’s one greater day to forged a vote in United Airlines’ Her Art Here contest, that is giving women artists a threat to have their paintings featured on a Boeing 757 plane.

Judges narrowed down submitted paintings to six finalists – three for a design to represent New York/New Jersey and 3 for a California-themed design.

Now the public is being requested to vote for one finalist from every vicinity. Voting ends April 19.

Here are few of greater designs that made the cut:

Look here to see the designs for all six finalists and to forged your vote.

Two winners, one representing every vicinity, might be given a danger to paintings along renowned artist Shantell Martin to finalize a layout for his or her respective area’s plane.

The finalists and the winners will also get open gallery suggests and feature their paintings on display internal United Airlines terminals through 2019.

Winners additionally get 100,000 MileagePlus award miles and the two prevailing artists may even every get $10,000.

The very last designs could be on planes this fall.

Cool new/vintage liveries inside the air

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Courtesy British Airways

Last week at Heathrow Airport, British Airways debuted a retro -liveried Boeing 747 (registration: G-BYGC) painted in the iconic layout of its predecessor British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC).]

BA 100 will remain in this Boeing 747 until the plane is retired in 2023. And through then, British Airways, like maximum commercial providers, may have retired the bulk of its 747 fleet. To find out where you would possibly spot the aircraft in man or woman, check Flight Radar.

BOAC 747 Taken: 18th February 2019 Photo: Stuart Bailey

There’s any other unfashionable livery to search for this week.

Courtesy Austrian Airlines


An Austrian Airlines A320 aircraft (registration OE-LBO) is flying with a livery from the Eighties, while Austrian Airlines re-entered the intercontinental flight enterprise, “after a totally lengthy break,” the service notes.

Courtesy Austrian Airlines

The layout has an angular brand arrow, gray plane stomach and the traditional purple-white-pink flag at the tailfin of the aircraft.

“Considering the colorful technology of the Nineteen Eighties, it changed into, all in all, a limited branding on the a part of Austrian Airlines”, stated Isabella Reichl, Head of Marketing for the countrey’s country wide service.

The service says the the unfashionable appearance is a homage to the locations of Tokyo and New York. Th aircraft’s first look is in Vienna these days.