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[brianfrench1995]

USAir Express Shorts 360 postcard.

@postcardtimemachine

#ephemera #travel #postcard #airplanes #airplane #plane #planes #aviation #flying #postcards #USAIr #avgeek

[usairfl]

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[air-safety]

USAir Shuttle // Boeing 727-200

1992 Revision

#USAir Shuttle #USAir #Boeing 727-200 #USA #1990s #Safety Card

[agnickradio]

Κολυμπώντας μπροστά! η Κρήτη έχει όλες τις δυνατότητες να αναπτύξει δράσεις στην Γαλάζια Οικονομία

Κολυμπώντας μπροστά! η Κρήτη έχει όλες τις δυνατότητες να αναπτύξει δράσεις στην Γαλάζια Οικονομία

Στην Στρατηγική της ΕΕ για την Περιφέρεια Αδριατικής και Ιονίου (EUSAIR) συμμετέχουν δέκα χώρες, μεταξύ των οποίων και η Ελλάδα. Το εξαιρετικά ενδιαφέρον στοιχείο είναι πως η Ελλάδα έχει την ευθύνη για την Γαλάζια Ανάπτυξη και η Κρήτη αποτελεί δυναμική Περιφέρεια που έχει προοπτικές και στηρίζει το συγκεκριμένο τομέα. (more…)

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[robpegoraro]

City-sized arenas belong in city centers

The Capitals and the Wizards may not win another championship anytime soon, but they will continue playing their home games where they should: in the downtown arena they’ve called home since 1997 as first the MCI Center, then the Verizon Center, followed by the resulting nickname of the Phone Booth, and now Capital One Arena. That’s the best possible resolution of an interlude in which…

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[runwayrunway]

No. 35 - Saudia/Saudi Arabian Airlines

This is the third of three requests from @twtd11. A very serendipitously timed one, because I had just begun researching for this post when it came in.

I would just like to take a moment to thank you for the requests. Everyone, but specifically twtd11 for sending in multiple. I love writing these, and there are so many potentially juicy topics out there. There are between 5,000 and 5,500 airlines currently with ICAO codes, some of which have had multiple liveries throughout history or even multiple in active use, before even mentioning the defunct ones. There is a non-negligible degree of decision paralysis that comes with choosing subjects, and requests help steer me towards topics and trains of thought I'm interested in discussing. Not to mention, of course, that I get to cover things that people are actively interested in seeing. I appreciate them a lot.

Okay. Aside...aside. Let's talk about Saudia, or Saudi Arabian Airlines, whichever one it is at any given time, the flag carrier of Saudi Arabia.

Let me propose a hypothetical to you. Say you were one of the richest countries on the entire planet, strategically located somewhere that both has most major cities in the world within range for a nonstop flight and enough oil that it basically prints money. You're trying to participate in geopolitics and have the world's third largest immigrant population. You are the site of the largest pilgrimage in the world, now largely conducted by air. You have a flag carrier, like most countries, and over half your fleet is large twin-aisle jets ready to be plopped down at airports all over the world.

You'd want to make them.....look really interesting and striking and memorable, right? Really represent your country's culture and heritage and remind the people exhaustedly looking out of the window of a plane that's been baking on the tarmac for an hour of how big and important your airline is?

I just think I would have made different choices here.

Saudia is obviously the flag carrier of Saudi Arabia. I think the government tried to privatise it at some point but I don't think they've actually finished that process. It was founded in 1945 as Saudi Arabian Airlines, and was run by TWA despite being wholly government-owned.

Saudia is really weird.

It was named Saudi Arabian Airlines until 1972, when it became Saudia. In 1996 it was renamed back to Saudia Arabian Airlines, and it was then renamed back again to Saudia in 2012. This is definitely confusing and/or silly. It also makes it comparably harder to date historical mentions of it just by name the way it does hearing USAir vs US Airways. I even see sources, including relatively journalistic ones, incorrectly use the anachronistic name anyway. Saudia is the better name, in my opinion. If you think 'Saudia' is shorter than 'Saudi Arabian Airlines', compare 'السعودية' to 'الخطوط الجوية العربية السعودية'.  'al-Ḫuṭūṭ al-Jawwiyyah al-ʿArabiyyah as-Suʿūdiyyah'. The way that proper nouns work in Arabic make an already long name completely unwieldy, while Saudia is completely regular and manageable. It's a bit pointless to discuss, though. The two have become interchangeable at this point. The switches have become more and more frequent over time, too. I'm taking bets for what happens in 2026 - are they going to become Saudi Arabian Airlines again, or will they daringly pick a third option and become Saudia Arabian Airlines? (They will not do this, and they're Saudia to me forever anyway.)

This is sort of a trend with Saudia. They have such a non-brand that they keep doing 'brand overhauls' which are negligibly different from each other. This applies to their liveries too. A new Saudia livery is the equivalent of a Fall/Winter collection from the Gap. It's...the Gap. New Saudia livery? Well...it's an airplane livery with Saudia branding. That's just not anything.

 image: ted quackenbush

image: ruthas

Hey, everyone! We added a livery revision! We had a cheatline and now it's a hockey stick!

We added more stripes! Aren't we innovative?

I actually do love the combination of these specific blues and greens, and would love to see it used on a competent livery, but attached to nothing it's just so sad. The same goes for the typeface used. Gorgeous, but meaningless. It was actually decent for the time, but...look, I'm not here to talk about it, and given what's coming it's hard to be too nice to it even though the colorscheme is genuinely gorgeous.

I also think this illustrates fantastically my point about Saudia vs Saudi Arabian Airlines. In the pictures above, each side has one of the names written in English and the other in Arabic, and...I think you can see for yourself.

This livery is so incredibly boring that it somehow looks worse on the TriStar than the 737, which is so unusual! The more interesting shape of the TriStar just lets on how painfully boring this is.

But that was then. Where are we now?

Ah...not much better. It's an upside-down United situation, half white and half off-white, which can look classy in some cases but in this example just looks dated. You have to do something to distinguish a livery like this. A nice color scheme (which this gold-and-dark-blue certainly is) and a gorgeous typeface can't save it.

This picture gives a fantastic view of how gorgeous the cream, gold, green, and dark blue used are. If only they were used in a way that accomplishes something! This is a travesty of great details which are just put down on a piece of paper and left to sit! Good details mean nothing if they're all you have. It just makes this livery all the more tragic.

('God Bless You' is not the name of the plane, just something written on all Saudia planes. Bless you too, HZ-HM1A.)

Why would you ever. Why would you ever color only the top of the fin on an MD-11, and then leave the engine flesh-color. Did not a single person realize that the ratio of blue to cream this creates looks terrible?

This is so frustrating. Every feature here is visually pleasing, and the plane itself sort of is unless you look close, but it's so nothing, so cowardly, that I become angry. This is bereft of design and creativity, despite having all the features it needs to succeed if they were applied decently. (Seriously, that typeface is beautiful.)

The Arab States of the Persian Gulf are some of the wealthiest countries in the world. Their airlines tend to be luxurious, with brand new fleets of well-equipped airliners replete with some of the world's best first-and-business-class cabins for the discerning travelling millionaire. I've never flown with one of them, because I am not a millionaire (or particularly discerning when it comes to cabin service, in all honesty), but it absolutely does show in their liveries. Each of them carries itself with a unique sort of careless gravitas, like a bed with a carved walnut headboard and brocade sheets, neatly made in the morning by an underpaid and mistreated migrant housekeeper.

Compare Saudia. The elegant frame of the Dreamliner given the livery of a mid-90s US carrier which would go out of business before the mid-aughts. This is non-design.

I mention, when I outline my grading system, that a D grade is not only for liveries which are ugly or badly designed. That's how I've ended up using it so far, most of the time. After all, I mostly discuss liveries that are interesting, since there's more to talk about and more to motivate me to write a post. And I do think Saudia is somewhat interesting case of a livery which is pretty, which has nice features, which is...inoffensive. Yet it is so cowardly that I truly do not believe it is satisfactory. It's almost a little unsettling, how there's nothing about this livery I specifically dislike yet the complete package is so reprehensible to me.

Final Grade: D+

Well, okay, I'm done with this livery. Tomorrow's bonus post will be about a much more interesting Saudi airline, and we'll have a post later today about a much more interesting aspect of Saudia's design, but for the moment thankfully we're done with this...

...this is a wet lease. They've been wet leasing planes to meet hajj demand, and those planes are primarily white. But for a moment I thought this was actually a new livery and almost began crying.

Okay. We're okay. This is their most recent non-lease delivery. We're okay. Don't scare me like that, Saudia! Geez!

#tarmac fashion week #grade: d+ #era: 2000s #era: 2010s #era: 2020s #region: middle east and north africa #region: saudi arabia #saudia #flag carriers #requests

[aviaposter]

DeHavilland Dash 8-Q200 CommutAir operated for United Express

Registration: N364PH Type: Dash 8-202Q Engines: 2 × PW PW123D Serial Number: 524 First flight: Jun 2, 1998

CommutAir, operating as United Express, is a U.S. regional airline. The airline was established in 1989, with headquarters at Clinton County Airport in Plattsburgh, New York. Operations began on August 1, 1989 as a marketing affiliate of USAir. In January 2003, CommutAir announced an agreement with Continental to feed the latter's Cleveland, Ohio hub. CommutAir leased sixteen Bombardier Q200 aircraft from Horizon Air in 2006. And in January 2018, the Q200 was phased out, marking the end of turbo-prop operations. Today, CommutAir operates flights from its bases at Denver, Newark, Washington Dulles, and Houston Intercontinental. In July 26, 2022, the company legally changed its name to CommuteAir, by adding the letter "e".

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[airsllides]

airsLLide No. 2716: N355US, Boeing 737-301, Piedmont Airlines, Orlando, February 15, 1989.

Pending its merger into USAir, Piedmont started to apply a provisional interim design on some of its airplanes. Instead of the usually white roof and the cheatline across the windows, the fusealge was given the polished metall looks and the blue cheatline was re-positioned in the location of the future red USAir cheatline.

#aviation

[salesbyserenity]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: USAir Express Airplane Port Columbus International 1994 Color Postcard Unposted.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 3.22 (after 1950)

1955 – A United States Navy Douglas R6D-1 Liftmaster crashes into Hawaii's Waiʻanae Range, killing 66. 1960 – Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser. 1963 – The Beatles release their debut album Please Please Me. 1970 – Chicano residents in San Diego, California occupy a site under the Coronado Bridge, leading to the creation of Chicano Park. 1972 – The United States Congress sends the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification. 1972 – In Eisenstadt v. Baird, the United States Supreme Court decides that unmarried persons have the right to possess contraceptives. 1975 – A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama, causes a dangerous reduction in cooling water levels. 1978 – Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope suspended between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico. 1982 – NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its third mission, STS-3. 1988 – The United States Congress votes to override President Ronald Reagan's veto of the Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987. 1992 – USAir Flight 405 crashes shortly after takeoff from New York City's LaGuardia Airport, leading to a number of studies into the effect that ice has on aircraft. 1992 – Fall of communism in Albania: The Democratic Party of Albania wins a decisive majority in the parliamentary election. 1993 – The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path. 1995 – Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns to earth after setting a record of 438 days in space. 1996 – NASA's Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on its 16th mission, STS-76. 1997 – Tara Lipinski, aged 14 years and nine months, becomes the youngest women's World Figure Skating Champion. 1997 – Comet Hale–Bopp reaches its closest approach to Earth at 1.315 AU.[34] 2004 – Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist group Hamas, two bodyguards, and nine civilian bystanders are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force Hellfire missiles. 2006 – Three Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT) hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days of captivity and the murder of their colleague from the U.S., Tom Fox. 2013 – At least 37 people are killed and 200 are injured after a fire destroys a camp containing Burmese refugees near Ban Mae, Thailand. 2016 – Three suicide bombers kill 32 people and injure 316 in the 2016 Brussels bombings at the airport and at the Maelbeek/Maalbeek metro station. 2017 – A terrorist attack in London near the Houses of Parliament leaves four people dead and at least 20 injured. 2017 – Syrian civil war: Five hundred members of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are airlifted south of the Euphrates by United States Air Force helicopters, beginning the Battle of Tabqa. 2019 – The Special Counsel investigation on the 2016 United States presidential election concludes when Robert Mueller submits his report to the United States Attorney General. 2019 – Two buses crashed in Kitampo, a town north of Ghana's capital Accra, killing at least 50 people. 2020 – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces the country's largest ever self-imposed curfew, in an effort to fight the spread of COVID-19. 2020 – Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announces a national lockdown and the country's first ever self-imposed curfew, in an effort to fight the spread of COVID-19. 2021 – Ten people are killed in a mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado.

#Events

[topazthecat]

The Truth Behind The Mysterious Crash Of USAir Flight 1016 | Mayday Seri...

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[sahihmuslim]

Sahih Muslim, The Book of the Merits of the Companions, Book 44, Hadith 319

Usair b. Jabir reported that a delegation from Kufa came to 'Umar and there was a person amongst them who jeered at Uwais. Thereupon Umar said:

Is there amongst us one from Qaran? That person came and Umar said: Verily Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) has said: There would come to you a person from Yemen who would be called Uwais and he would leave none in Yemen (behind him) except his mother, and he would have the whiteness (due to leprosy) and he supplicated Allah and it was cured except for the size of a dinar or dirham. He who amongst you meets him should ask him to supplicate for forgiveness (from Allah) for you.

Sahih Muslim, The Book of the Merits of the Companions, Book 44, Hadith 319

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[usairfl]

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[enniroger]

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[zjohnsonarts246-003]

US Airways

US Airways, originally USAir, has a history of evolving from a mail delivery airline in Pittsburgh to a major commercial airline, rebranding in 1997. Merged with American Airlines in 2013, it became the world's largest airline. The marketing objective is to raise "re-awareness" and establish a proudly American, and dependable tone while earning customer loyalty through incentives. Former slogans such as "Fly with US" reflected patriotic and confident tones with the post-America West merger potentially signaling patriotism and maybe even desperation. Success defined by our team includes high profits, being chosen over competitors, and becoming the most reliable airline. Competitors like Delta and Jet Blue pose challenges with customer satisfaction and competitive pricing that provide a necessary focus on maintaining competition in the airline industry.

The target audience includes savvy travelers and occasional flyers. The brand promises continual growth, prioritizing customer satisfaction. Reasons to believe include a robust loyalty program, early adoption of online reservations, and a focus on passenger comfort. The brand tone shifts from a militaristic to a welcoming, patriotic personality. In terms of design, must-haves include a recognizable name and patriotism, with potential for throwbacks to older designs. The success of this depends on effective branding strategies and a thoughtful logo redesign.

[lucylavinsarts245-003]

R+D and Mood Board

For this project I have been assigned to rebrand and improve a retired airline, popularly known as, US Airways. US Airways was established in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for mail delivery purposes in 1937 as the name “All American Aviation.” In 1997, the airline name was changed to “US Airways.” The airline had a very patriotic and inviting tone. For example, they used slogans like “Fly the USA on USAir,” “Together We Fly,” and “Fly the Flag With USAir.” After many logo changes, attempts to rebrand, and overcome bankruptcy the airline flew its last flight at “US Airways” in 2015 just before they merged with American Airlines and created the largest airline in the world to date with over 950 planes. 

As mentioned prior, US Airways used a very patriotic tone in their branding. I plan to incorporate this sense of mission statement and values in my rebrand as well. Instead of appealing to the everyday American through patriotism directly, I plan to use the tone of inclusiveness to every American and for everyone they journey with. I intend on having a very appealing, sleek, and uniform aesthetic. Slightly modern and easy to use, making it eye catching to the business travelers, the seasonal family vacationers, the savvy international journeyers, and simply every American who would like to travel to their destination pleasantly with ease and safety. All Americans are united with the same desire to arrive at their destination with ease, comfort, and safety. I do not intend on changing any basis of beliefs or the name of the airline, but simply giving them a revamp!