#314409 - 10/01/05 10:17 PM
Re: Alaska's 737 Paint Job
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Registered: 09/01/01
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Loc: Shoreline, Wa.
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Ryan, Nice of us tax payers to help pay for the nice paint job. Cigar
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#314412 - 10/02/05 12:19 AM
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Fry
Registered: 06/11/05
Posts: 21
Loc: Lake Stevens
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Wonder where they had it painted. The average 737 paint job at boeing takes 2 1/2 days. Special jobs like that get 7-10 days and thats with 2 shifts of 6 guys. The reason I know is I have been painting planes for Boeing for 20 years. Looks cool though Wsmitty
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#314413 - 10/02/05 01:51 AM
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Juvenile at Sea
Registered: 02/19/00
Posts: 170
Loc: Everett,Wa
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#314415 - 10/02/05 05:23 PM
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Three Time Spawner
Registered: 09/16/02
Posts: 1501
Loc: seattle wa
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cool paint job......
but a sad reminder of the destructive costs of corporate welfare and how much more it costs us than welfare to the poor.....
atleast its not a boot!
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#314417 - 10/03/05 11:14 AM
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Three Time Spawner
Registered: 09/16/02
Posts: 1501
Loc: seattle wa
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slabquest- maybe you missed this part of the article "The FEDERALLY funded Alaska Fisheries Marketing Board paid for the rest of the roughly $300,000 project, said Bill Hines, the board's executive director. " maybe you dont know what federally funded means????? no it doesnt mean that the shotgun shell maker paid for it... so is that what you support????? where are you coming from with this comment? if you support this you are supporting what you say you dont like about my opinions.......but maybe you just dont understand..... i cant tell isnt it allways easier to label people than think an issue thru.?????....try thinking about what youare saying next time and maybe it wont be so hypocritical its corporate welfare.....i dont support it.... sorry if you do.....i have to work my ass off for my money and i dont want the gov taking it from me and paying for paint jobs for corporately owned jets....... does that sound like socialism or the idea that i think the gov should own all the money????.....it sounds like being conservative and responsible to me should our taxes go to paint peta jets too? my corporation has a truck that needs a new federally funded slamon paint job too
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#314418 - 10/03/05 03:16 PM
Re: Alaska's 737 Paint Job
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Three Time Spawner
Registered: 12/29/99
Posts: 1604
Loc: Vancouver, Washington
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I thought the new paint job was rather nice..... until the part about being Federally funded.
I dont' mind paying taxes if the money goes to provide goods and services that are necessary to provide for a civilized society. This one doesn't make the cut. In fact, it's classic case of wasted government resources. But when your senior Senator is the head of the Senate appropriations committee, that's what happens.
But it's still a nice paint job.
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#314420 - 10/03/05 03:31 PM
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Spawner
Registered: 02/22/01
Posts: 652
Loc: Tacoma, Wa, USA
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They left off the net marks. And shouldn't that fish be belly up.
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#314421 - 10/03/05 03:44 PM
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Fry
Registered: 08/09/05
Posts: 38
Loc: Modesto, California
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Shouldn't it either have a big treble stuck in its side or some beads hanging in the corner of its mouth? FishnMike
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#314422 - 10/03/05 04:45 PM
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Juvenille at Sea
Registered: 09/30/05
Posts: 201
Loc: South Sound
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She sure is pretty. I would guess the pride of the fleet. Lets just hope the jackscrew was greased.
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#314424 - 10/03/05 09:20 PM
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River Nutrients
Registered: 07/11/04
Posts: 3091
Loc: Bothell, Wa
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I call it the 7"Pork"7 That's pretty cool but I've seen better. We will see more and more planes being used as billboards in the next few years. As I understand it technology now allows the paint crew to blend and fade colors creating much more realistic and creative livery's. Maybe Wsmitty can enlighten us a bit. Word is that, after it's little tour, that plane will be assigned to flight 66 which is the Sea-Jun-Sit-Ktn milk run. If so I may get a chance to fly on her next summer. It would only be fitting. One year the fishing was so good in Sitka we watched them fill the whole plane up with fish boxes. I'm talking pallet after pallet after pallet. Fork lifts queued up to load another pallet. 1st class where the only passangers to get their luggage loaded but we didn't care just as long as our fish made it!! I happened to be sitting next to a landing gear engineer who calculated that we where right at Maximum Tackoff Weight. There's no doubt that Alaska Air is making a ton of money flying fish south. The whole Copper rv. phenomonen is made possible by them. And they didn't even have to pay for Pork7. Still pretty cool though!
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#314425 - 10/04/05 12:56 AM
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Carcass
Registered: 01/01/03
Posts: 2190
Loc: Post Falls Idaho
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I was flying back from Anchorage a few years ago and Alaska asked several people to bump. The plane was not full, but they reportedly needed the weight freed up because of all the fish they were hauling back.
The Alaska Airlines spokesperson said that after it's Juneu and other Alaska cities route this week the plane was going to be going to Cabo, Denver, Chicago, and Florida.
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#314426 - 10/04/05 03:03 AM
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Fry
Registered: 06/11/05
Posts: 21
Loc: Lake Stevens
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Ya ever since Japan Airlines had us do a Whale paint job on a 747 several years ago, airlines have gone nuts trying to out do each other. You will be seeing more and more of this kind of stuff. As far as new technology now, no we still use the same polyurathane as allways just that its high solids paint for enviromental concerns now. The paint is made to perform after application, 30 below temp, 600 mph and stretch as the plane presserizes. Us painters are not concidered when they make it.You try to blend it but it does not flow out smooth just gets rough so we do the best we can, but from a distance it looks pretty good. The new technology is coming though. They now are testing a giant inkjet printer that can move up and down the fin (the vertical tail) and print a picture quality job. This should make some amazing stuff. They are next working on one for the body. You can just amagine what will be flying in 10 years.
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#314427 - 10/04/05 09:33 PM
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Returning Adult
Registered: 09/09/04
Posts: 257
Loc: MLT
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I like the new paint job. The federal funding part sounds rough, and I really wonder if this will actually help the industry. Makes me hungry.............mmmmmmmmm salmon.
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