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DWProski

DWProski

Member Since 08 Aug 2015
Offline Last Active Aug 12 2023 09:04 PM

In Topic: 2020 Balkans and Greece Design Challenge

18 May 2020 - 10:49 AM

Just my two cents on the "ex-communist countries" liveries:
1. Zagreb Airlines with its name could never be a flag carrier of Croatia. At least with bases in Dubrovnik and Split, because its a thing of those areas honor. The old liveries tail is also a bit controversial, because it symbolizes the ustashe flag.
2. Albanian reminds me of something you would make after looking on the Wikipedia article for the symbols of Albania. The history is also somewhat incorrect, because Albania was a s*** show by the point this airline was established and there was no way it would have survived the transition to a market economy. Additionally, the A321LR you said operated on flights to Bombai would make no sense, considering that tourists and diaspora from that area are almost nonexistent. If you wanted to get it right, you would have dispatched the aircraft to FRA or ZRH or some other airport with a lot of Albanian diaspora.
3. Bulgarska is bit of a mismatch. The pattern on the fuselage and the tail doesn't really scream 90s to me, and neither does the rounded sans-serif font, which I think originates from Adobe. Still, the story is pretty nice and I don't have any complaints about it.
4. Hrvatska Airways is quite uninspiring with its livery design and honestly looks like something slapped together in 30 minutes.
5. Montenegrin Airways is a meme.
6. Adriatics story has no sense. Firstly, no reasonable airline would ever fly to Sarajevo before 1996, especially considering that SJJ had only two international routes before 1992 - Frankfurt and Tripoli via Belgrade. There is no reason why the airline would stop operating during the Yugoslav Wars, considering that Bulgaria was completely uninvolved. Sadly, the liveries are also quite uninspiring and again, like Hrvatska Airways, it feels slapped together.


In Topic: Winners Announced! AE Arabic Design 2020

01 May 2020 - 02:43 PM

Group A | Syrian Arabian | Damascus

 

The flag carrier of Syria, pictured here with its current (2004 - now) livery.

 

The golden years of Syrian Arabian were supposed to start with an order for 10 A319-100, 15 A320-200, 10 A321-200 and 5 A330-200 aircraft in late 2009, however, with only 5 A320's delivered the rest of the order was scrapped because of the start of the Syrian Civil War. Having found itself in an situation where it was unable to directly acquire new aircraft and replacement parts for its aircraft, Syrian Arabian set up several shell companies in other Arab countries as a way to at least keep its remaining fleet active. With the situation slowly going back to normal, Syrian Arabian signed a letter of intention with Sukhoi for the purchase of 10 SSJ-100LR aircraft and is expected to also sign an letter of intention for the purchase of Irkut MC-21 or COMAC C919 aircraft.

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In Topic: 2020 Private Aircraft Challenge

01 May 2020 - 11:18 AM

Туполев Ту-154М

Registration: T9-BOS

Owner: ???

 

This Tupolev Tu-154M has a long and interesting story behind it. Its life began in September of 1986, as YU-PRK, one of the six Tupolev's delivered to Avioinvest, a newly started airline owned by Energoinvest, a Yugoslav engineering concern, which already had a history with aircraft operations, operating a fleet of Cessna Citation's and other smaller aircraft which were loaned to the Sarajevo Air Club. The airline was started because Energoinvest was partially paid with them for completing a job in the Soviet Union.

 

Avioinvest had no fixed routes, but their aircraft mostly flew charter flights and were used to transport Energoinvest's workers and equipment between the plentiful sites they were working on around the world. With the Yugoslav Wars starting, the airline lost four of its six Tu-154M's, two were destroyed and two were captured. The remaining two aircraft were transferred to the government of the newly established country of Bosnia and Herzegovina where they were shortly used for diplomatic trips before being mothballed in early 1993. The two aircraft were soon to return, with a brand new colour scheme and were seen in multiple European cities, even reaching Dayton, OH for the final peace negotiations. Once the war was over, the two aircraft were transferred to Aerobosna because they were too expensive to be kept in service and the government chose to retrofit one of Energoinvest's Citation II's for its needs. They were used up to 1998 by Aerobosna, before being auctioned off for a grand total of ten million USD to an unknown buyer from Cyprus.

 

The interesting part of its history starts here. The aircraft was spotted for the first time since it left Aerobosna's fleet in Libya, April 2011, with a completely different livery scheme. Before that it was thought that it was scrapped soon after it was bought by the shell company, however, it turned out that it was still flying. By that point the aircraft was flying unregistered with it being removed from the Bosnian aircraft register some time in early 1999. By this point in time, Bosnia even switched to using a new prefix - E7. Soon many questions arose about the aircraft, with many eye witnesses saying that they had seen the aircraft in many areas that were in conflict, such as the DR Congo, South Sudan and etc. Conspiracy theories arose that the aircraft was used for smuggling weapons to these areas, with the theory eventually being proven when the aircraft was searched by a coordinated team of several of the worlds special services in 2014. The cargo bay and passenger area were filled with small arms, rocket launchers, heavy machine guns and many types of ammo. The aircraft has ever since been parked at Lagos International Airport, and has probably been left to rot. The question where the other Tu-154M, T9-BOT, still remains unanswered. The shell company which is the legal owner of these aircraft had folded in 2004, which left zero ways to trace the actual operator of these aircraft.

 

The scheme painted on T9-BOS was meant to give off the wrong impression of it being an aircraft owned by the Red Cross or some other medical airline. It is rumored that it was accompanied by at least 3 more Tu-154M's, all of which were painted in a similar scheme.

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All of the previous schemes the aircraft has been painted in (for the full version click on the picture)

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In Topic: Why don't people use Concordes?

24 April 2020 - 08:38 PM

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In Topic: 2020 Balkans and Greece Design Challenge

24 April 2020 - 08:28 PM

Aerobosna doesn't really need a special introduction. Founded in 1992, joined DWA in 2003. Fleet of ATR-72-600's, Airbus A320neo's and Boeing 787-8's.

The flag carrier of Bosnia and Herzegovina having acquired 8 brand new Airbus A320neo aircraft in late 2018 chose to revise their livery from a total glossy blue scheme to a scheme with a white belly, while keeping the tail design which defined the airline. The aircraft were named after people who marked the history of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with E7-ABO (shown) being named after Mirza Delibašić, one of the greatest basketball players that the world has ever seen.

Having secured the job as the main airline for the Winter European Youth Festival 2019, appropriate decals were added to the aircraft and the new A320's were used to transfer the participants quickly and efficiently.

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