MD11Freighter

Now that is hilarious

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SoonerStormchaser

So does anyone have ANY idea when the DL and AS planes are gonna FINALLY be released?

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dragon7

My best guess is that down the road some innovative manufacturer (Lord knows not Herpa) will be smart and know that a brand new sparkling 787 in Northwest's final colors will be a hott seller.
And yes I do so hope Herpa will go ahead and make the Northwest 757 w/winglets! It was announced officially, so the masterminds at Herpa can technically say its a real and official aircraft.

hikouki

maybe some time down the road, herpa will release items similar to inflight500...they will be produced when they get produced.

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mmu69

We'll still see NWA planes for quite a while. First, shareholders and anti-trust authorities still have to approve the deal, which may not happen until the end of the year. Second, they'll have to re-paint those aircraft, and Delta does not have a reputation of doing that quickly.

Even if all of this does happen quicker than Herpa's production, they can still add a "yesterday series" sticker to the box at the last minute.

Well, Herpa have just released it in 1/200. But it will, in all likelihood, remain a fantasy model. I'm not betting on it as a 1/500. A shame, though...

B727

The merger of DL and NWA will not necessarily mean that there won't be any NWA models anymore. Look at AA and TWA, after the merger/take-over of TWA we still see plenty of TWA releases. Only now the boxes carry a sticker that it is licenesed by AA. The same might happen with DL. We've also seen e.g. a Northeast B727 release by Herpa licensed by DL.

Digital

Well, good news is that the Iberia A320 is out now, so is the LTU nc A330, and the Augsburg Airways(Team Lufthansa) Q400. Lets hope the other delayed ones follow.

Archipelago

Not too bad, I hope these two beauties are next : A333 Asiana and A343 LAN.

Wait a minute, that next LTU nc A330 with reg. D-ALPB. Is the real aircraft also going to be painted into AirBerlin/LTU colors just like D-ALPI? Does anyone know?

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Digital

I'm not sure of the registration, but I know there are two versions of the NC LTU A330-200. One was the X-tra shop release of LTUs probational livery prior to the Air Berlin take over. Essentialy they are identical except the interim livery Features the aircraft title LTU.com in little letters. This version aside from having a different registration has the more current LTU livery in big bold letters. All of these are now to be considered Yesterday models since LTUs A330s now fly under Air Berlin Banner.

Archipelago

Thanks, when I first looked at D-ALPI pics I thought it was lacking of imagination since the colors looked a bit like Qantas'. When I began to like it, it was modified a 'little'. Still nice looking color scheme for a yesterday model, IMHO.

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Faucett Peru

Arrived today together with the LTU A332:
In the box of the Iberia model was a little paper with following information printed on it:

"Q.C. check by: 005 (PASS)"
I never had this before!

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Qantas a380

It is very disapiontment that this Iberia is so soon available and the Asiana, LAN and delta's are not...

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D-AKNH

The story LTU - Air Berlin is a bit difficult... But I´ll try to explain:
(if you click on the registration you will see a picture of the original)

1.) Nr. 508292, D-ALPI, the extra-release, had interim livery with white engines, small LTU.com titles and the red colour under the fuselage begins behind the front gear. This model is "yesterday" now because the plane is wearing AB-titles since about two weeks.

2.) Nr. 509961, D-ALPB, announced 01/02-2008, has the regular new LTU livery with red engines, big titles and the red colour under the fuselage begins at the nose.

The new Air Berlin colours which look like on D-AERQ won`t be given to all LTU-planes! Some of the A332 will remain in the new LTU-scheme. I don`t really know the reason but I heard something about agreements with tour operators. So I have to correct you, Digital, model no. 509961 won`t be a yesterday model!!!!!!!

Daniel333

And what does this mean?

PT-TAA

Quality Control!!

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