Flying Colors! Creative Paint on Airliners Part - 2

The sky is blue, so why your plane should be simply white? Paint it in all the colors of a sunset... and pretty up the skies! Part-2

Flying Colors! Creative Paint on Airliners Part-1

The sky is blue, so why your plane should be simply white? Paint it in all the colors of a sunset... and pretty up the skies!

Some airline companies are clearly out-painting competition with their groovy air fleet. Often called "aircraft livery", such special paint schemes can be exciting and even inspirational. Japan Airlines with their Disney jumbo jets comes to mind, in particular, plus Australian Qantas Airways has been commissioning famous artists to come up with exotic art for their "birds".

On this page we feature some particularly wild and even outrageous airliner paint schemes, from all over the world - send us more examples you spot in the airports or even if you had opportunity to fly inside one of these yourself...

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"Yoshida" - Japanese biggest floating crane

Like some Godzilla monster, the giant crane looms over the city

Early in the morning it arrives at the city dock to begin the bridge construction for the man-made island in Kagoshima bay. Boom length: 132m. Lifting capacity: 3700 tons!
It's "Yoshida" - Japanese biggest floating crane, built by Mitsubishi heavy Industries Division.

The task is to lift the whole bridge sections, each weighing approx. 3500 tonnes:

Each hook is 10 meters tall. The workers around it look as small as a bunch of ants... Some 800 steps lead to the tip of the boom, and to the small cabin on top.

(image sources: Jikky, Nifty)

All in a day's job - transporting a submarine
The Japanese submarine SS-600 Mochishio is lifted and transported at the Kobe Kawasaki yard. The Mochishio is the last of the Oyashio class and is approximately 84m in length:

(image sources: Jikky, Nifty)

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