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Lee Park Full Member Offline Posts: 99 Location: Cape Town, South Africa Joined: Apr 11^th, 2012 Gender:	South African Repaints Apr 24^th, 2012 at 6:34am	Print Post
	Anyone up for this challenge, South African Airways circa late 60's 70's 80's (old orange tails and flying springboks) Circa 90's to retirement. The 737 is also operated by SAA Cargo. Kulula.com and Comair (British Airways) also used the type up to 2010. Nationwide Airlines also used 737's 727-100 and 200's up to when they were grounded after a 737-200 dropped an engine at Cape Town International.


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Lee Park Full Member Offline Posts: 99 Location: Cape Town, South Africa Joined: Apr 11^th, 2012 Gender:	Re: South African Repaints Reply #1 - May 4^th, 2012 at 5:53am	Print Post
	An SAA i200 circa 1980'a

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Lee Park Full Member Offline Posts: 99 Location: Cape Town, South Africa Joined: Apr 11^th, 2012 Gender:	Re: South African Repaints Reply #2 - May 4^th, 2012 at 5:54am	Print Post
	British Airways operated by Comair up to retirement in 2010

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Lee Park Full Member Offline Posts: 99 Location: Cape Town, South Africa Joined: Apr 11^th, 2012 Gender:	Re: South African Repaints Reply #3 - May 4^th, 2012 at 5:56am	Print Post
	Kulula.com the low cost carrier of Comair operated 737-200's up until 2010

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Lee Park Full Member Offline Posts: 99 Location: Cape Town, South Africa Joined: Apr 11^th, 2012 Gender:	Re: South African Repaints Reply #4 - May 4^th, 2012 at 5:57am	Print Post
	SAA circa 1970'2

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Lee Park Full Member Offline Posts: 99 Location: Cape Town, South Africa Joined: Apr 11^th, 2012 Gender:	Re: South African Repaints Reply #5 - May 4^th, 2012 at 5:58am	Print Post
	SAA Cargo (They still fly here)

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Lee Park Full Member Offline Posts: 99 Location: Cape Town, South Africa Joined: Apr 11^th, 2012 Gender:	Re: South African Repaints Reply #6 - May 4^th, 2012 at 6:00am	Print Post
	SAA in the present livery. SAA no longer flies the 200 on pax services and most of the fleet has been converted to cargo or leased or sold.

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Lee Park Full Member Offline Posts: 99 Location: Cape Town, South Africa Joined: Apr 11^th, 2012 Gender:	Re: South African Repaints Reply #7 - May 4^th, 2012 at 6:23am	Print Post
	Original delivery livery in 1968

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Lee Park Full Member Offline Posts: 99 Location: Cape Town, South Africa Joined: Apr 11^th, 2012 Gender:	Re: South African Repaints Reply #8 - May 4^th, 2012 at 6:25am	Print Post
	SAA aircraft as with other multilingual countries displayed our other official language, (at the time) Afrikaans "SAL Suid-Afrikaanse Lugdiens" on the other sides of their fuselages.

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Lee Park Full Member Offline Posts: 99 Location: Cape Town, South Africa Joined: Apr 11^th, 2012 Gender:	Re: South African Repaints Reply #9 - May 4^th, 2012 at 6:29am	Print Post
	Although windowed, c models a few were later converted to fully windowless F models. SAFAIR also did all the conversions for SAA cargo, fitting the side cargo door etc. I hope this will give some kind repainter some ideas and inspiration to repaint the SA aircraft.

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NaMcO Ex Member	Re: South African Repaints Reply #10 - May 4^th, 2012 at 8:21am	Print Post
	I had this one started long ago (put it on the finnair livery just to show you), but didn't like the tail colours much and besides aligning them was killing me and so i gave up after a while. If i get to finish the tail, the rest would be easy to produce, a cargo and freighter versions: I remember David Sweetman put out a template that made painting the tail easier, did anyone keep that template or has any ideas on how to paint and align the tail properly? I feel i'm missing something here, it takes me too long to get the tail straight


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Lee Park Full Member Offline Posts: 99 Location: Cape Town, South Africa Joined: Apr 11^th, 2012 Gender:	Re: South African Repaints Reply #11 - May 4^th, 2012 at 8:45am	Print Post
	Sadly they changed the colours when Apartheid ended. As much as I did not support what the previous regime stood for, our planes were distinctive with that orange tail. I remember arriving on a flight from YYZ to LNR in 1985 and you saw those orange tails easily. The new livery although colourful and pretty, is confused with Air Namibia. Still, I flew many hours in the "fluffy" or "pocket rocket" as they were called here.


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Ricardo Rodrigues Full Member Offline Posts: 28 Location: Portugal Joined: Sep 11^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: South African Repaints Reply #12 - May 5^th, 2012 at 12:07pm	Print Post
	I shall paint the SAA 80's version by the next week or so (time dependent ). That paint brings me back good memories, as I flew in one of those on Christmas 1994 to Durban.


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Aviator101 Full Member Offline Posts: 32 Joined: Apr 6^th, 2012	Re: South African Repaints Reply #13 - May 5^th, 2012 at 4:26pm	Print Post
	Fantastic!!! I was waiting for one. The orange tail livery is lovely.


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Lee Park Full Member Offline Posts: 99 Location: Cape Town, South Africa Joined: Apr 11^th, 2012 Gender:	u Reply #14 - May 9^th, 2012 at 10:21am	Print Post
	I lost count on how many of them I flew, because they replaced the 727's and were used often on the Cape Town - Durban run. Normally with a stop of in Port Elizabeth or East London, or sometimes, if you were lucky, you got both. A number of those 737's were taken over by Comair which operate in either BA or Kulula liveries. The rest were taken over by Safair or modified for SAA Cargo. Will look forward to the classic orange tail.


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