Vintage Continental Airlines in Austin Texas
by John Rogers on Feb.16, 2012, under Airlines and Airports, Austin Texas, HDR, Travel
The Continental Airlines 737-900 with a vintage paint job spent the night in Austin last night. This livery or paint design was featured on CO’s DC-3s back in the early 1960s. That was not too many years before I started riding my bicycle to the old Austin airport just to watch the planes take off and land. After all these years I still love airplanes. Call me a kid, or a geek, (perhaps both).
As a side note, you can see in the photo that the plane is parked at spot 12. I thought that was especially apropos since 2012 will be the last year of Continental. In fact, it’s just a matter of weeks before the public face of Continental Airlines will no longer exist as Continental is merged with United Airlines.
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Continental Airlines; RIP | Visualist Images Photography, Austin Texas
March 3rd, 2012 on 9:10 pm[...] by John Rogers on Mar.03, 2012, under Airlines and Airports, Black & White, HDR, Travel I thought this to be an appropriate image for today since as of midnight last night, Continental Airlines public face no longer exist. There is still some behind the scenes work to be done on the merger between United Airlines and Continental Airlines, but to the flying public, there is only United Airlines. Hopefully as they are re-branding the aircraft with the new United Logo, they will keep this 737-900 with the vintage Continental logo as a tribute to the thousands of Continental employees that now are part of the new United Airlines. You can see another photograph of the Continental Airplane with the vintage Continental logo here. [...]
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Continental Airlines; RIP | HDR Group
March 3rd, 2012 on 9:53 pm[...] I like the B&W processing on this. I think it adds to the vintage ‘feel’ of the photo. Although, I must say the photo looks great in color as well. Perhaps I’ll post the color version at a later date… I thought this to be an appropriate image for today since as of midnight last night, Continental Airlines public face no longer exist. There is still some behind the scenes work to be done on the merger between United Airlines and Continental Airlines, but to the flying public, there is only United Airlines. Hopefully as they are re-branding the aircraft with the new United Logo, they will keep this 737-900 with the vintage Continental logo as a tribute to the thousands of Continental employees that now are part of the new United Airlines. You can see another photograph of the Continental Airplane with the vintage Continental logo here. [...]
February 16th, 2012 on 9:45 pm
AWESOME PHOTO! As usual!
February 16th, 2012 on 9:47 pm
John as always you are awesome as is your photo. Wish I had half your talent! Beautiful!
February 16th, 2012 on 10:14 pm
We lived on Broadmoor and would go over and watch the planes come and go also. It was really wonderful back then. What a great memory. Great picture also!
February 16th, 2012 on 11:52 pm
Great representation and narrative as always. Hope this finds you well.
Jake