Alaska's 737 Paint Job

http://www.komotv.com/stories/39541.htm

Ryan,

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

Cigar

That's a representation of a wild salmon photographed completely out of the water. You should be ashamed of yourself, Sparkey!

Cool paint job! I'd be scared to fly in a fish though.

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

Took almost 3 weeks.

24 days, almost 3 1/2 weeks

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!

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?

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

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.

Nice paint job.

Cohoangler, be thankful you don't live in Seattle.

They left off the net marks. And shouldn't that fish be belly up.

Shouldn't it either have a big treble stuck in its side or some beads hanging in the corner of its mouth?

FishnMike

She sure is pretty. I would guess the pride of the fleet. Lets just hope the jackscrew was greased.

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.

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!

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.

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.

Wsmitty

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.

Nothing mysterious about the funding. The government funds all kinds of these types of things. Alaska would be nothing without the airplane subsidies. All of the small towns are serviced by Alaska airlines because of those subsidies and any advertisement they can get is good for all of us. How else would you get to your favorite river in Alaska?

No question about the fact that A.A. helps the industry. Just wondering if the paint job would make a person have the urge to spend some cash at Pike Place for a taste king.

That fish has too many fins - should be thrown back when it's over WA waters....

It's a commercial plane no throwbacks for the commercials, just the sporties.

BigFin - I have no problem with the Federal government subsidizing flights to remote Alaskan villages and towns. Helping our fellow citizens with the basics (including transportation) is precisely what a subisidy is for. However, those planes can get into and out of those same Alaskan villages without a fancy, Federally subsidized paint job.

Seattle Times Article

I think the only real benifactor here would be A.A. NOT the industry. Good move by A.A. can't blame them really.