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Old 17th October 2008, 06:58 PM
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Smile Who needs paint anyway?

I vote 10 out of 10 for worst paint job....

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Re: Who needs paint anyway?

Make the plane lighter. I saw a doco years ago about WWII planes that had to be in service fast, so they didn't paint them. It improved performance
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Re: Who needs paint anyway?

Looks like the Post Apocalyptic version of Atlas Air...
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Old 17th October 2008, 08:56 PM
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BTW, taken from MEL Flounge ...
Being a regular at MEL; I noticed the image were taken from somewhere high on the terminal; a few reviews of the background etc. and I decided you were Flounging .

Then I viewed later posts as I scrolled down to reply and saw your confirmation.
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Old 17th October 2008, 10:08 PM
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Re: Who needs paint anyway?

I've done a bit of fiddling with the images to correct the colour (not a complete fix, but better)





Here is one I shot last week (not that the paintwork needs any help with this one ) - it's a shame the window tinting screws so much with the colour temperature.
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Re: Who needs paint anyway?

I wouldn't expect Atlas Air to get a new paint job for their aircraft in a hurry nor would they care. Isn't Atlas Air a HKG based freight company in the LCC mould?
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Old 17th October 2008, 10:56 PM
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Re: Who needs paint anyway?

Nope. This is Atlas Air
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Re: Who needs paint anyway?

This plane has been losing paint for a while. A similar photo from ~12 months ago:

N412MC - Atlas Air - Boeing 747-47UF(SCD) - Planespotters.net

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Re: Who needs paint anyway?

Ahhh. A couple of years ago I met an Atlas Air pilot on a PER-SIN QF flight and we were chatting throughout the flight. He was based out of HKG and most of his flights were from HKG to the Middle East so I assumed that it was a HKG based freight carrier.

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