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Douglas C-47 v3 Livery Thread

BendyFlyer said:
Jafo not sure if these are of interest or help but they are the TAA colour photos I have, some are proper DC-3s some are C-47 conversions.



This is the only one I have of AEQ

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Yes....got all those....annoyingly so far I've found exactly 2 photos that are the right and left of AEQ while in the 50 Anni livery ....and therefore only the one of all that text....and there is a graphic to the left of it that I can't decypher.... may be some 25 year commemorative thing.

Considering the current state of AEQ I doubt hunting it down now is going to help at all.

It's 'GIGO' time now....searching ways of finding any other/better graphic...;)
 
About as far as I can get it....without finding a better pic of that graphic....added it from the tiny image I had.....place-holder at best...;)

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Hb-irc

Hello,

just a small question concerning a paint I am working on.
I have the HB-IRC in progress but I don't have the right font for the "SWISS AIR LINES" letters as you can see on this picture:
http://images.google.de/imgres?imgu...XOAhWqAsAKHQ6QAEkQMwhiKCEwIQ&bih=836&biw=1472

Its not realy necessary because there are many pictures where you can see the airplane without these letters, but it would be a nice addition.
If someone could help me out, I would highly appreciate it!!

Regards,

Christoph
 
Would really like to see United Air Lines updated to v3 with the pre-50's paint. Also update to American Airlines v2 to v3.

Thanks,
 
Jafo said:
Yep...that one's just before or just after ....pretty sure it's before....
...and the other one is that 'only photo' I have of what the text/artwork looks like...;)
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I wonder if we asked nicely whether Manfred would do a Viewmaster model and a model with 8 windows on each side.

In Australia TAA, Ansett, Airlines of NSW and Butler all flew at least one Viewmaster. Also a Google search reveals versions of the C-47/DC-3 with 8 windows on each side.
 
AussieMan said:


I wonder if we asked nicely whether Manfred would do a Viewmaster model and a model with 8 windows on each side.

In Australia TAA, Ansett, Airlines of NSW and Butler all flew at least one Viewmaster. Also a Google search reveals versions of the C-47/DC-3 with 8 windows on each side.
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Yep...AEQ was a Viewmaster by the time it was in this livery....;)
 
Jafo said:
Yep...that one's just before or just after ....pretty sure it's before....
...and the other one is that 'only photo' I have of what the text/artwork looks like...;)
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JAFO this aircraft was painted to celebrate the first commercial air mail carried in Australia, which was actually an amazing flight in by a frenchman Maurice Guilleaux primitive Bleriot aircraft from Melbourne via Goulburn (overnight) in NSW to Sydney in 1914. Simply amazing flight that I was completely ignorant about. The aeroplane survived and is in the powerhouse museum in Sydney Australia.

That logo is a mystery but to try and help I have searched for logos and sponsor for the event and that period and before in Australia and come up with nothing even remotely similar. John Mack was a photographer from SA who was involved in aviation and photography but it is not his company or business. It has nothing to do with Mildara Wines (Penfolds) I think it is a stylized version of the chilli in a circle logo of an long gone company OT Cordials, as they supported the first flight and had their logo under the wing of the Bleriot. I cannot find a good colour or clear print of that logo but it is very similar and the centre lettering is suggesting of something with OT in the centre.
 
BendyFlyer said:
JAFO this aircraft was painted to celebrate the first commercial air mail carried in Australia, which was actually an amazing flight in by a frenchman Maurice Guilleaux primitive Bleriot aircraft from Melbourne via Goulburn (overnight) in NSW to Sydney in 1914. Simply amazing flight that I was completely ignorant about. The aeroplane survived and is in the powerhouse museum in Sydney Australia.

That logo is a mystery but to try and help I have searched for logos and sponsor for the event and that period and before in Australia and come up with nothing even remotely similar. John Mack was a photographer from SA who was involved in aviation and photography but it is not his company or business. It has nothing to do with Mildara Wines (Penfolds) I think it is a stylized version of the chilli in a circle logo of an long gone company OT Cordials, as they supported the first flight and had their logo under the wing of the Bleriot. I cannot find a good colour or clear print of that logo but it is very similar and the centre lettering is suggesting of something with OT in the centre.
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Ah....thanks for the help....anything graphic-wise has to be better than what I have in that photo.
I too had figured it was nothing to do with Mack or Mildara, but was yet another 'sponsor'.of some sort.

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My 'interpretation' of the graphic is...a circle with text in the bottom arc of the ring...a boomerang, ends pointing up with text across it that could be '1914 to 1939' a standing kangaroo above...and a '25' below.

Theory is it could be a commemorative logo for 25 years.

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Jafo re: "My 'interpretation' of the graphic is...a circle with text in the bottom arc of the ring...a boomerang, ends pointing up with text across it that could be '1914 to 1939' a standing kangaroo above...and a '25' below. Theory is it could be a commemorative logo for 25 years."

Could be definitely looks like a boomerang shape across the middle but to my eyes the vertical shape looks like the bottom of an augur with a chilli top so it is a figure of some sort that is holding the boomerang, as to what that could be or who I have no idea. Win some lose some I guess, pity there is nobody on PPrune who could enlighten us.




 
I think I'll leave it with a 'grey' "place holder" [pretend the sticker fell off] and upload as is ...until a miracle happens and I find the graphic...;)

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Jafo sounds good to me, the logo was probably one of those one off weirdo logos done at the time but it has not turned up on any of my Australian museum searches of the 2th 50th or 100th Anniversary documents and photos they have either. I will see if any of the older drivers on PPRune can remember it at all.
 
BendyFlyer said:
Jafo sounds good to me, the logo was probably one of those one off weirdo logos done at the time but it has not turned up on any of my Australian museum searches of the 2th 50th or 100th Anniversary documents and photos they have either. I will see if any of the older drivers on PPRune can remember it at all.
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Back at the time when that animal was at Essendon [YMEN] my old man was DCA...FSO3 [was in charge for a while] before being transferred to the back-woods of Tulla, under the tower...when Tulla came on line. I probably saw this one at one time or another as I passed the Airport every day on the way to school [Essendon Grammar]...;)
 
Hello! Long time lurker, first time posting here. I have a livery request for the fabulous C-47 if any one of you amazing painters are up for it. It's a DC-3 that is very famous here in Finland, you can see it at airshows and it takes people on for flights. Reference pictures are a plenty and can be found at the official site, http://www.dc-ry.fi/, for example. I give you:

OH-LCH!!(without the exclamation marks)

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Much obliged!/Andreas in Finland
 
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