Favorite Liveries of the 1950's

[Cowboy1968]

Out of wondering, i know a lot of us here like the 1950's golden age of commercial aviation. I have my favorite paint schemes that was worn on this wonderful birds. Mine was Pan American World Airlines. So I was just wondering what are some of the other favorite dresses these old girls wore that really made you smile? This old PAA dress looked good on many airplanes.

Here is my favorite dress from the 50's

http://i796.photobucket.com/albums/yy250/Darrellsimpilot/Pan%20American/FS92009-11-2413-25-19-22.jpg
Curtis C-46 Commando

http://i796.photobucket.com/albums/yy250/Darrellsimpilot/Pan%20American/FS92009-11-2411-05-30-48.jpg
Douglas DC-3

http://i796.photobucket.com/albums/yy250/Darrellsimpilot/Pan%20American/FS92009-11-2411-10-35-42.jpg
Douglas DC-4

http://i796.photobucket.com/albums/yy250/Darrellsimpilot/Pan%20American/FS92009-11-2411-41-36-13.jpg
Douglas DC-6B

http://i796.photobucket.com/albums/yy250/Darrellsimpilot/Pan%20American/FS92009-11-2412-33-05-45.jpg
Douglas DC-7B

http://i796.photobucket.com/albums/yy250/Darrellsimpilot/Pan%20American/FS92009-11-2412-42-54-69.jpg
Douglas DC-7C

http://i796.photobucket.com/albums/yy250/Darrellsimpilot/Pan%20American/FS92009-11-2411-52-26-23.jpg
Boeing B.377 Stratocruiser

http://i796.photobucket.com/albums/yy250/Darrellsimpilot/Pan%20American/FS92009-11-2413-11-45-95.jpg
Lockheed L049A Constellation (late 40's very early 50's)

http://i796.photobucket.com/albums/yy250/Darrellsimpilot/Pan%20American/FS92009-11-2412-49-10-02.jpg
Lockheed L1049C Super Constellation

[Crusader]

Great pics Cowboy1968 , some of my favorites to . I must ask you where you got that great looking water ? It's the best I've seen . I , along with many others have experimented with about all of them and this in my opinion is outstanding .

Rich

[Cowboy1968]

I believe the textures came in the Silver Wings package. I have my graphics set to max. running through 4 Gig of RAM and a duel core processor. The GPU is a Nvidia 9500GT with 512 mb of VRAM

[Cowboy1968]

also I wanted detail in the pics so most are shot at low altitudes as you can tell when flying by the golden gate in the L049

[Willy]

I thought it looked like Bill Lyons water. It comes in Golden Hawaii, Classic Goose, Golden Wings and Silver Wings. I've been using it since Golden Hawaii first came out.

I the old BOAC paints myself... and TWA... and Eastern Silver Fleet... and Pan American... and American.. and.......

[bpfowler]

whoa...dont get me started; IR mighty partial to Spraycan's PAA 049 and KLM 049 too. :- )

[MaddogK]

Yup, TWA pwns all those 50's paints (even in B/W)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/L-749A_Constellation_N6022C_TWA_Heathrow_09.54.jpg/800px-L-749A_Constellation_N6022C_TWA_Heathrow_09.54.jpg

[Cowboy1968]

Yup, TWA pwns all those 50's paints (even in B/W)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/L-749A_Constellation_N6022C_TWA_Heathrow_09.54.jpg/800px-L-749A_Constellation_N6022C_TWA_Heathrow_09.54.jpg

Thanks for the idea for my next series of photos.

[tgibson]

Mine is the United 1957-58 scheme that was also applied to the first jets:

http://www.aircraftarchaeology.com/TWA%20Grand%20Canyon/United%20DC-7.jpg

Reason? I used to see them when I was a kid with my nose just over the chain link fence at the gates at Sacramento Municipal (now Executive). :)

Tom Gibson
CalClassic Propliners
www.calclassic.com

[hawkeye52]

Nice pix, Cowboy...but I believe the livery on the DC-3 is incorrect; they were phased out before that livery was introduced. The livery on the L-049 Connie is closer to what the Gooney Birds wore late in their PAA lives -- but in dark blue, not the awful royal blue sported by the Connie in your sceenie.

My first-ever flight was on a PAA DC-4 (Clipper Messenger, N88912-- actually a C-54B-20-DO ex USAAF 44-9009) in the summer of 1948, LGA to SJU (TJIG) -- 8 hours at 8,000 ft with my nose stuck to the window all the way. And yes, we were given the small, yellow two-packs of Chiclets. :jump:

There will always be a soft spot in my heart for PAA and her Clippers. :engel016:

- H52

[Cowboy1968]

If my research is correct.....PAA operated both the C-46s and DC-3 in their Latin American divisions well into the 1950's. Even if the scheme isn't accurate....she still looks good in that dress.....lol

[chrisf36]

This is my current desktop!

Chris

[Cowboy1968]

nice

This is mine

[Willy]

Here's mine...

[philmoberg]

... and mine ...

20566

[srgalahad]

and mine... ( yeah, it's actually '60s but...)

[Cowboy1968]

Mine falls right there it is around 1959-1960.....god the 707 is damn fine looking plane

[Wild Bill Kelso]

My favourite 50's scheme?
Of course this one! :germany:

Outstanding aircraft and a fantastic livery made by TimHH:

[Fnerg]

My favorite...

[RedGreen]

My Choice: :wiggle:

[thedude247]

My favorite...

Me too bud, I quite enjoy the 'Cunucks Unlimited' livery as well.

[Ralf Roggeveen]

http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/1994/yokepeter.jpg

There she goes... ;)

[Cowboy1968]

......here are some of our old girls dressed out in TWA attire.

Before and after World War II, in the 1940's TWA used the Lindbergh Line paint.

http://i796.photobucket.com/albums/yy250/Darrellsimpilot/TWA/FS9sw2009-11-2921-30-05-63.jpg
Douglas DC-2

http://i796.photobucket.com/albums/yy250/Darrellsimpilot/TWA/FS9sw2009-11-2921-37-15-87.jpg
Douglas DC-3

http://i796.photobucket.com/albums/yy250/Darrellsimpilot/TWA/FS9sw2009-11-3002-16-08-56.jpg
Boeing B.307 (as pointed out i missed this one......had it screened but forgot to post)

[Cowboy1968]

As the late 1940's approached, TWA changed to the "Silverbird" livery. They used this paint into the early 1950's

http://i796.photobucket.com/albums/yy250/Darrellsimpilot/TWA/FS9sw2009-11-2921-42-42-03.jpg
Douglas DC-3

http://i796.photobucket.com/albums/yy250/Darrellsimpilot/TWA/FS9sw2009-11-2922-23-10-53.jpg
Martin 2-0-2A

http://i796.photobucket.com/albums/yy250/Darrellsimpilot/TWA/FS9sw2009-11-2920-08-36-36.jpg
Douglas DC-4

http://i796.photobucket.com/albums/yy250/Darrellsimpilot/TWA/FS9sw2009-11-3002-21-28-52.jpg
Boeing B.307 (again i had these pictures in a different folder, but this is a 1945 version of the scheme)

http://i796.photobucket.com/albums/yy250/Darrellsimpilot/TWA/FS92009-11-2422-16-54-33.jpg
Boeing B.377 (this is a fictional what if paint scheme)

http://i796.photobucket.com/albums/yy250/Darrellsimpilot/TWA/FS9sw2009-11-2919-50-06-43.jpg
Lockheed L-049A Constellation

http://i796.photobucket.com/albums/yy250/Darrellsimpilot/TWA/FS9sw2009-11-3001-32-53-06.jpg
Lockheed L-1049G (another good looking fictional paint)

[Cowboy1968]

As the mid 50's rolled around TWA's fleet was mostly populated with Constellations in the famous "whitebird" livery.

http://i796.photobucket.com/albums/yy250/Darrellsimpilot/TWA/FS9sw2009-11-2922-29-23-56.jpg
Martin 4-0-4

http://i796.photobucket.com/albums/yy250/Darrellsimpilot/TWA/FS9sw2009-11-2919-42-11-59.jpg
Lockheed L-049A Constellation

http://i796.photobucket.com/albums/yy250/Darrellsimpilot/TWA/FS9sw2009-11-2919-34-47-83.jpg
Lockheed L-749 Constellation

http://i796.photobucket.com/albums/yy250/Darrellsimpilot/TWA/FS9sw2009-11-2918-32-19-49.jpg
Lockheed L-1049G Super Constellation

http://i796.photobucket.com/albums/yy250/Darrellsimpilot/TWA/FS9sw2009-11-2919-22-55-75.jpg
Lockheed L-1649 Starliner

Now for a bonus pic......

http://i796.photobucket.com/albums/yy250/Darrellsimpilot/TWA/FS92009-11-2423-49-55-00.jpg
Fairchild C-82 Packet

TWA operated a small fleet of these old warbirds in Europe to move major components such as engines around in the 1960's.

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I know i haven't posted any pic of the Convair Propliners yet....but I am slighting them.....i just don't have them installed yet.

[Willy]

Just thought I'd mention that TWA never flew the Boeing 377 Stratocruiser.

You also missed a couple TWA paints ;)

Pic 1: Boeing 307 Stratoliner "Zuni" circa 1940

Pic 2: Boeing 307 Stratoliner "Apache" circa 1948

TWA had more 307 Stratoliners than anyone else. They had 5 of them from 1939 to 1951 when they sold them off to French operators. While in TWA service (and Air Transport Command during WWII) they were named after Indian tribes: Apache, Cherokee, Comanche, Navaho and Zuni. Pan American had 3 in service, Clippers Comet, Rainbow and Flying Cloud. The other one went to Howard Hughes and was used as a "flying penthouse".

[Cowboy1968]

Just thought I'd mention that TWA never flew the Boeing 377 Stratocruiser.

You also missed a couple TWA paints ;)

Pic 1: Boeing 307 Stratoliner "Zuni" circa 1940

Pic 2: Boeing 307 Stratoliner "Apache" circa 1948

TWA had more 307 Stratoliners than anyone else. They had 5 of them from 1939 to 1951 when they sold them off to French operators. While in TWA service (and Air Transport Command during WWII) they were named after Indian tribes: Apache, Cherokee, Comanche, Navaho and Zuni. Pan American had 3 in service, Clippers Comet, Rainbow and Flying Cloud. The other one went to Howard Hughes and was used as a "flying penthouse".

Yes I know they didn't fly the Stratocruiser, but she looks good in the dress

[Cowboy1968]

Well I have loaded the Convair planes, but am a little sad.....due to avsim not having some of he files up I wasn't able to get half of the files i wanted for skinning them.

[Cowboy1968]

Just thought I'd mention that TWA never flew the Boeing 377 Stratocruiser.

You also missed a couple TWA paints ;)

Pic 1: Boeing 307 Stratoliner "Zuni" circa 1940

Pic 2: Boeing 307 Stratoliner "Apache" circa 1948

TWA had more 307 Stratoliners than anyone else. They had 5 of them from 1939 to 1951 when they sold them off to French operators. While in TWA service (and Air Transport Command during WWII) they were named after Indian tribes: Apache, Cherokee, Comanche, Navaho and Zuni. Pan American had 3 in service, Clippers Comet, Rainbow and Flying Cloud. The other one went to Howard Hughes and was used as a "flying penthouse".

Been doing some reading in a book i have on propliners and i have confirmed it through other sources.

TWA did order 10 B.377, but they got into a disagreement over the cost of the machines. Boeing had completed three machines of the order and they were in TWA paint. They canceled the order and the three completed machines were transferred to the PAA order.

[Cowboy1968]

A nice livery on a smaller line of the day.

http://i796.photobucket.com/albums/yy250/Darrellsimpilot/NAL/FS9sw2009-11-3022-21-52-65.jpg
Convair CV-440

http://i796.photobucket.com/albums/yy250/Darrellsimpilot/NAL/FS9sw2009-11-3022-33-24-42.jpg
Douglas DC-6B

http://i796.photobucket.com/albums/yy250/Darrellsimpilot/NAL/FS9sw2009-11-3022-44-19-82.jpg
Douglas DC-7

http://i796.photobucket.com/albums/yy250/Darrellsimpilot/NAL/FS9sw2009-11-3022-57-19-83.jpg
Douglas DC-7B

[Cowboy1968]

I forgot to put this one with the last of the TWA planes on the page. More TWA jets will follow showing the "arrowbird" paint scheme applied to the jets in 1959

http://i796.photobucket.com/albums/yy250/Darrellsimpilot/TWA/FS9sw2009-12-0100-18-46-82.jpg
Boeing 707-120

Unlike a lot of the other major airlines, TWA maintained two different distinct liveries for their jetliners and the propliners.

The props kept the "whitebird" them.

[RedGreen]

:ernae:

Thanks for the National pics, Cowboy. I have all three of those Douglas planes in National colors. In fact during the Evita Race that happened over the summer here at SOH I flew the DC-6B in those colors all the way from Montreal to Buenos Aires. And yes, I made sure to include stops at Miami and Havana.

I didn't realize someone had painted a 440 in those colors too, though! Guess I know what airplane I need to get next. :mixedsmi: