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#314408 - 10/01/05 09:26 PM Alaska's 737 Paint Job
Sparkey Offline
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#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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Ryan,

Nice of us tax payers to help pay for the nice paint job.

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#314410 - 10/01/05 10:46 PM Re: Alaska's 737 Paint Job
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Registered: 05/17/01
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Loc: Almost on the beach
That's a representation of a wild salmon photographed completely out of the water. You should be ashamed of yourself, Sparkey! ;\) \:D
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#314411 - 10/01/05 10:50 PM Re: Alaska's 737 Paint Job
Neal M Offline
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Registered: 12/13/99
Posts: 2785
Loc: Bainbridge Island and Sappho, ...
Cool paint job! I'd be scared to fly in a fish though.

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#314412 - 10/02/05 12:19 AM Re: Alaska's 737 Paint Job
Wsmitty Offline
Fry

Registered: 06/11/05
Posts: 21
Loc: Lake Stevens
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 \:\)

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#314413 - 10/02/05 01:51 AM Re: Alaska's 737 Paint Job
Swami Offline
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Registered: 02/19/00
Posts: 172
Loc: Everett,Wa
Took almost 3 weeks.

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#314414 - 10/02/05 02:32 AM Re: Alaska's 737 Paint Job
Wsmitty Offline
Fry

Registered: 06/11/05
Posts: 21
Loc: Lake Stevens
24 days, almost 3 1/2 weeks \:\)

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#314415 - 10/02/05 05:23 PM Re: Alaska's 737 Paint Job
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Registered: 09/16/02
Posts: 1571
Loc: seattle wa
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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#314416 - 10/02/05 05:52 PM Re: Alaska's 737 Paint Job
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The salmon-thirty-salmon paint job was paid for by the Alaska Fisheries Marketing Board.

Lupo,

Can't you restrict your "glories of socialism" all-money-belongs-to-the-government comments to the other board?
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#314417 - 10/03/05 11:14 AM Re: Alaska's 737 Paint Job
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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... \:D

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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Registered: 12/29/99
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Loc: Vancouver, Washington
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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#314419 - 10/03/05 03:20 PM Re: Alaska's 737 Paint Job
wntrrn Offline
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Registered: 01/13/03
Posts: 2665
Loc: Edmonds
Nice paint job.

Cohoangler, be thankful you don't live in Seattle.
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#314420 - 10/03/05 03:31 PM Re: Alaska's 737 Paint Job
DriftWood Offline
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Registered: 02/22/01
Posts: 667
Loc: Tacoma, Wa, USA
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 Re: Alaska's 737 Paint Job
FishnMike Offline
Fry

Registered: 08/09/05
Posts: 39
Loc: Modesto, California
Shouldn't it either have a big treble stuck in its side or some beads hanging in the corner of its mouth? ;\)

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#314422 - 10/03/05 04:45 PM Re: Alaska's 737 Paint Job
Dr. E Offline
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Registered: 09/30/05
Posts: 203
Loc: South Sound
She sure is pretty. I would guess the pride of the fleet. Lets just hope the jackscrew was greased. ;\)
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#314423 - 10/03/05 07:52 PM Re: Alaska's 737 Paint Job
Slab Quest Offline
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Registered: 08/17/01
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Loc: Mukilteo or Westport
Lupo,

You are correct. I did not read where the Fisheries Marketing Board was federally funded. I didn't read the article at all - just saw the story on TV and assumed it was an industry funded board. So, sorry about that.

I guess the feds feel it's in their best intrest to give back a little percentage of the taxes extracted from an industry to help with an overall advertising program. Probably the potato commercials on TV are the same type of deal.

I guess I just had a knee-jerk reaction to your "corporate welfare" comment.

Believe it or not, there are actually people (socialists) who cannot differentiate between a tax deduction and the government giving people money for doing nothing.

Again, I apologize for the error, but I still think these NFR deals are best left to the other forum. The fish picture is the story here.
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#314424 - 10/03/05 09:20 PM Re: Alaska's 737 Paint Job
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Registered: 07/11/04
Posts: 3113
Loc: Bothell, Wa
I call it the 7"Pork"7 \:D

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 Re: Alaska's 737 Paint Job
Idaho Mike Offline
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Registered: 01/01/03
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Loc: Post Falls Idaho
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 Re: Alaska's 737 Paint Job
Wsmitty Offline
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Registered: 06/11/05
Posts: 21
Loc: Lake Stevens
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 Re: Alaska's 737 Paint Job
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Registered: 09/09/04
Posts: 261
Loc: MLT
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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