Hi there,
a couple of Southwest Airlines liveries uploaded at Avsim.
N20SW -200 in the original livery
N22SW -200 in the final (Southwest only) livery
N23SW -200C the only combi
N68SW -200 ADV "The Winning Spirit"
for those who like the historical part check this site:
http://www.blogsouthwest.com/blog/flashback-fridays-making-iconic-southwest-image

http://imageshack.us/a/img855/4733/southwest1csforumn20sw.jpg

http://imageshack.us/a/img41/2725/southwest1csforumn22sw.jpg

http://imageshack.us/a/img51/90/southwest1csforumn23sw.jpg

http://imageshack.us/a/img594/4091/southwest1csforumn68sw.jpg

Good flight,
Lex

AWESOME! Thank you! Great work.

Your repaints really are FANTASTIC Lex! Thank you.  [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

Thank you gents. There is more to come.
U happy = I happy
brgds, Lex

Once again (lol) thanks for the great repaints!  ;D

Lex ---

You have done as much as anyone to make it --- *as real as it gets!* I think your paints are the best ever! I thought Mr. Murcheson was the best  ---- till you came along!

Bruce

Thanks everybody.
@ Bruce - thks for the flowers and very much appreciated to hear that detailing a paint is positively recorded by users. And yes I try to push the details as good as I can. I would also like to mention that the base PK from CS is the root for all these repaints and even if I've made some big changes to it, it is a great kit ! Not easy for beginners I admit. But there is quite a bunch of gifted painters hanging around here. I'm focused on the 737 and will be occupied for quite a while as time allows.
Again thanks a lot and you're welcome, Lex

Excellent job!

Good job, can't wait to try it out.

Hi, uploaded at Avsim.
N96SW the only B732 in the blue livery.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/28/up4m.jpg

have a nice weekend, Lex

You've done it again Lex! Beautiful as always! [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

Terrific, Lex!! Seems like every time I get on a SW airplane it's blue!

Do you have an early Pan Am paint on your list?

Bruce

btscott wrote on Mar 30^th, 2014 at 2:09pm:

Do you have an early Pan Am paint on your list? Bruce

Actualy not. But I'll paint it for you.
PanAm had 16 operating in Europe doing the IGS (Internal German Service - West Germany to West Berlin) why they all had german Clipper names. Will choose which one unless you have a preference from the list below.
N383PA "Clipper Steglitz"
N385PA "Clipper Berlin"
N4902W "Clipper Wilmersdorf"
N382PA "Clipper Kreuzberg"
N63AF "Clipper Schöneberg"
N64AF "Clipper Spandau"
N67AF "Clipper Tempelhof"
N68AF "Clipper Zehlendorf"
N69AF "Clipper Charlottenburg"
N380PA "Clipper Neukölln"
N381PA "Clipper Wedding"
N387PA "Clipper Tiergarten"
N388PA "Clipper Reinickendorf"
N389PA "Clipper Frankfurt"
N70723 "Clipper Luftikus"
N70724 "Clipper Spreeathen"
Leave me a week.
take care, Alex

As a PAA res agent in the 60s I remember booking seats on our 737s into Templehoff, mostly from FRA. So Clipper Templehoff would do nicely, Lex --- thanks!!

Bruce
DENRRPA (Denver Reservations Pan Am)   :)

Ah, you're a real ex-Panaman  ;)
No problem for Tempelhof. I realize they had two Combi 732 in the fleet of 16 and a mix of basic and advanced models. I'll do a couple of.
Q.: Do you know why the last livery was (is) called "Billboard" ?
Lex

Well, I always thought it was the big bold letters on the side of the fuselage, but here's what wikipedia says:

"With the introduction of wide body aircraft, a new form of livery also came about called the billboard livery. With billboard liveries the actual name of the airline became the unique and main feature of an airlines fuselage livery. By abandoning the cheatline that had traditionally run the length of the aircraft along the windowline; billboard liveries dropped the window cheatline colors and extended the name of the airlines titles above as well as below the window line in a much larger script."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_livery#Billboard

Now we know!! Says there were several carriers with *billboard* liveries -- which I didn't know!!  :o

Cheers!

Bruce

PS - Here's a video I made some time ago using the CS 707. There's a picture of me at my desk in 1963.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBtzhGwjqJ0&feature=em-upload_owner

Thank you very much Bruce. So nothing to do with Pan Am itself.
Cheatline, which is also explained following your link to wiki, is also a word I was wondering why it's called cheatline. Why cheating ? The only planes I know cheating in the cheatline (hehe) were the DC4s faking rectangular windows to rival the DC7 optically.  :-?
I watched your video, great job ! Did you tour the world ?
take care, Lex

Lex --

No clue here about the *cheat line* purpose or reasoning. First I'd heard of it! I also thought the billboard thing applied only to PA. Never heard that other carriers had billboard liveries too!

To be perfectly honest, in the 6 years I was with PAA I only went to Hawaii twice and Nassau once! I was newly married and making less than $400 a month to start. I spent the rest of my working career in the travel agency business and traveled quite a bit --- mostly for free. I turned down numerous free trips to Australia, China, Egypt, Russia, Africa, Iran, India and many others because I really didn't like airplane riding that much and those destinations just didn't appeal to me. Huge mistake! Went to Hawaii, Mexico and Europe dozens of times though; and also went on dozens of cruises. Oh yeah, did the Orient once pretty thoroughly including the old HKG Kai Tak airport! Enough of that!!!

Bruce

Wow, very impressive Bruce. You saw quite some corners on planet Earth.
Now, I hope you don't mind but while I was watching u tube about Pan Am history my hands went out of control and ...

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/703/40kb.jpg

Did you really made such reservations ?  ;)

take care,
Lex

Hey, you are very good with the Photoshop stuff!!! I see you found the Pan Am Moon Reservation thing too!! No, I never got a call for a seat to the moon!! That came along a just after I had left PA. I remember it well though.

Going on a cruise in a couple weeks. The ship spends a day and a half in Bermuda. Will be visiting a good friend and former DENPA District Sales & Res Manager. He was the BDAPA Station Manager when PA ceased operations and he never left. My ex boss at DENRRPA lives on Long Boat Key in Florida and we're still in touch as well. We just had a local PA reunion lunch here in DEN and there were about 12 of us in attendance. So we are keeping the *Blue Meatball* alive here!!!

Bruce

Great to hear that you keep the "Blue Meatball" alive. Wish you all the Best for your trip.

I've just uploaded the Pan Am schemes at Avsim.
N67AF "Clipper Tempelhof"
N383PA Combi "Clipper Steglitz"
N70723 ADV "Clipper Dawn"
N63AF "Clipper Hornet" in Billboard scheme
N70724 ADV "Clipper Georgia" in Billboard scheme

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/850/06i4.jpg

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/46/fplw.jpg

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/23/yhkt.jpg

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/856/dvjx.jpg

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/853/1ch7.jpg

take care, Lex

WOW! Beautiful like always Lex! Thank you!  [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

Oooh my, Lex!!! Absolutely wonderful!! Thanks a bunch! Going to make a video with these and send to my PAA friends!!!

Unreal!! You're a machine!!

Thank you so much!!

Bruce
DENRRPA