After some additional thoughts on the livery, I wanted to do a second post. I like American Airline’s new livery. Don’t hate me. It seems that most #AvGeeks out there aren’t huge fans. I have to say I wasn’t too sure when seeing themock-ups of the Boeing 777-300ER, but seeing the livery on a real plane (via photo above), I have to say I like it.

Quite a few people around the internet like the concept, but hate the tail. But looking at this close-up photo of the tailmakes me like it even more. I have also seen quite a few people complain that the tail only has 12 stripes versus the actual American flag having 13. No, this is not some conspiracy to over-throw the government. It is pretty obvious that the tail is a representation of the American flag and not an exact duplicate. I mean come on folks. Even US Airway’s flag on their tail has nine stripes, not the proper colors and no stars. Colgan Air had 6.5 (I think) stripes and only five stars.

I come from the perspective of not liking their bare aluminum livery, which I know if loved by most people. Yes, it is classic, but it looks dated to me and made the airline look old (doesn’t help when it is on old planes). But American ismaking quite a few changes (merger with US Airways or not) and I think this livery matches their desire to change and move into the future.

American Eagle and the AAdvantage® program also will get a new look as of today. The first American Eagle plane will fly the new livery beginning in February. Updating the new look across American’s network is a long process and will be rolled out over time to the airline’s airports, interiors and exteriors of aircraft, new uniforms, products and services, and technology platforms like AA.com and the American mobile apps.

American’s new look was created with input from our customers and our people, and in partnership with FutureBrand – a leading global brand consultancy. In addition, American today launches a new advertising campaign designed to showcase the new look. The advertising campaign was developed with agency partner McCann Worldgroup.

Aviation fuel comes out of the left wing of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner during a test flight at Boeing Field. Photo by Brandon Farris.

The past 7 weeks have not been one to write home about for the 787 program, from a couple of diversions, to a fire in Boston along with a couple of fuel leaks.

While events like these are expected it has come at a bad time with all of them being so close together and has caused major public scrutiny of the aircraft. We are going to take a look back at what has happened in the last seven weeks to lead to the events of yesterday causing the launch carrier, All Nippon Airways (ANA) and also Japan Airlines(JAL) to ground its entire fleet of Dreamliners.

The first event was on 04DEC2012, involving United Airlines performing flight 1146 from Houston to Newark when it diverted to New Orleans after the Captain reported getting multiple messages indicating some kind of system error. When calling into ATC the pilot stated that it was an electrical malfunction and directed firefighters to look behind the wing once the aircraft touched down where the electronics bay is located.

The aircraft, N26902 was thoroughly inspected and no arching or proof of any kind of fire was found and the aircraft ferried back to Houston a couple of days later where it re-entered service on 10DEC2012. However on 17DEC2012United Airlines (UA) reported that it had found another electrical problem on a second 787 in its fleet of 5 at the time.

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