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posted May 19, 2004 05:08 AM
Now that I like (especially having just read up about the Flying Tigers).
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posted May 19, 2004 01:43 PM
A few more! The Japan Space Lines livery is adapted from a fantasy Japan Air Lines livery designed by A. Fisher at Puck's Livery Zoo. (Used with permission.)
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posted May 20, 2004 03:08 AM
I would suggest British Spaceways, but the abreviation would be BS...
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posted May 20, 2004 12:28 PM
A ship with a big maple leaf (or a beaver!) would look good. Pity about British Spaceways. Maybe some variant of BOAC or BEA would work. What I really want is a Cogswell Cogs or Spacely Sprockets ship, but I haven't been able to find any logos on line.
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posted May 20, 2004 04:08 PM
Though "Aerospace" suggests atmospheric flight as well.
In medicine BAL is short of "bronchoalveolar lavage," meaning to use a saline solution to obtain cells and other from the lungs. That's what I think of first...
How about Astrolines, Astroways, Star Lines, Space Lines?
BTW: I was researching Canadian liveries and find that there's now no Canadian Airlines. Did it get replaced by Air Canada? (Like Swissair got replaced by Swiss?)
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posted May 20, 2004 10:46 PM
I'd just go ahead and use BS. In [i]Star Trek IV[i] it was implied that Anglo-Saxon profanity had fallen into disuse--for Kirk it was a historical curiosity.
And to keep viewers of the image from sniggering you could always spell out the whole name on the ship's hull.
posted May 21, 2004 04:28 AM
Canadian merged with Air Canada as far as I can remember. I don't pay alot of attention since I don't do alot of flying
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posted May 21, 2004 09:37 AM
I actually download an eps file for the Air Canada logo and legend from their site, but I don't like the resulting plainess of the design or the name. These modern liveries with white fuselages and just a colored tail don't adapt welll to starships. Whatever happened to cheat lines? I think I need to work on this more. Maybe I'll try the Canada goose tail from the later Canadian planes. For what it's worth.
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