There was a time when passenger airplanes wore more sophisticated outfits than they do these day .
If you look back in time , we recover elegant typography , minimalistic blusher jobs , low - key fruit colors , unproblematic personal line of credit and active curves , flowing lightning bolt , remarkable - yet - discreet logos . The following pick of photo takes you back to the golden eld of airliner liveries .
The second Concorde in factory livery, at the British Aircraft Corporation’s airfield at Filton, Bristol, 1971
Photo : Victor Drees / Daily Express / Hulton Archive / Getty Images
A Cubana airliner (Bristol Britannia 318) at Jose Marti International Airport, Havana, Cuba, 1971
exposure : Beverley Reed / AP
Bulgarian Airlines Tu-134A in hangar, c1970.
Photo source : CPCP – Братерство . Мистецтво , Київ , 1972 .
An Alaska Airlines DC-3 on sea ice at Tigvariak Island, Alaska, 1949
photograph : Rear Admiral Harley D. Nygren / NOAA Corps .
Hungarian Airlines (Malév) TU-154 B-2 at Paris Orly International Airport, 1989
exposure : Kornél Umann / Fortepan
A KLM McDonnell Douglas DC-8 (and an Aeroflot Il-18 on the left), 1970
pic : Éva Romák / Fortepan
Aerolineas Argentinas Boeing 737, 1968
This Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-114 looks gorgeous even in black and white (1961)
Photo : Fortepan
Malév Bombardier Q400 in a 65th anniversary painting (2011)
photograph : Malév
…and the same paint scheme on an Il-18, from 1972
Photo : Lars Söderström / Wikimedia Commons
A Cubana de Aviación Douglas DC-3 , 1965
pic source : Flieger - Jahrbuch 1965 , Transpress Web Verlag für Verkehrswesen , Berlin
Pacific Southwest Airlines Boeing 727, c1970
pic : SDASM
Tenneco BAC 1-11, c1970
United Airlines Lockheed L-1011 Tristar, c1980
Pan Am Boeing 747SP, c1978
Air Canada Boeing 727, c1974
Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 737, c1980
Aerovias Guest Lockheed L-1049G “Super Constellation”, c1955
Lufthansa Lockheed L-1649A “Super Star” Constellation, c1958
Photo : Lufthansa
British Midland Douglas DC-9, c1979
Eastern Douglas DC-10, c1989
Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-86
Delta Airlines McDonnell Douglas MD-11, 1997
Lufthansa Douglas DC-10, c1980
American Overseas Airlines Boeing 377 Stratocruiser, c1949
Photo : Wikimedia Commons
Hungarian Airlines (Malév) Lisunov Li-2 HA-LIX from the Fifties restored to airworthy condition in 2001
photograph : Attila Nagy / Gizmodo
Air Atlantique Douglas DC-6AC, c1987
Photo : Ken Fielding / Wikimedia Commons
Martin’s Air Charter Douglas DC-3, c1958
Top photograph : Japan Air Lines Boeing 747 ( SDASM )
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