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One of the fun facts in the Isle of California 'verse is that the Kingdom of Hawai'i stays independent to the modern day., and there are two main regular aairlines that operate in the Kingdom:

1. Hawaiian Airlines, which operates most long range routes as well as some inter-island links. Hawaiian Airlines is considered the nation's international flag carrier
2. Aloha Airlines/Aloha Air Cargo - runs exclusively as an inter-island service provider. Compared to Hawaiian Air, it is a downmarket provider

Fleets:
Hawaiian Air:

• 747-400ER - High Capacity flights over entire Pacific Basin:
  
  The 747s mostly run only the highest capacity routes - LAX, NRT (Tokyo), & DWI (Duchess Wunumara International Aerodrome outside of the Californian Capital of Mayi-Thakurti). There are 12 Aircraft in service.
• VC.20 - South Pacific flights
  
  The VC.20 is used because the Californians don't do ETOPS, and Vickers-Kaurna was interested in breaking the Boeing near-monopoly on trans-Pacific aviation. Hawaii here benefits from being courted by both the US and California, and with California not allowing any Airbus planes type certificates, it's a semi-captive market. There are 12 VC.20s in service, with 2 Twin Engined VC.21s owned by Hawaiian and 4 currently leased from V-K for operational evaluation of ETOPS-300 service. If successful, Twin-engined VC.20 family aircraft will replace 767s in Hawai'ian service.
• Concorde-B - Exclusively used on Flights to DWI (See explanationhere).
  
  There are 5 aircraft in service.
• 767-200ER - Long distance flights over the North Pacific to North America and Asia
  
  There are 24 aircraft in service.
• 757-200 - long range narrow body for North Pacific routes that do not have the demand for the 767
  
  There are 18 aircraft in service.
• 717 - Inter-island flights
  
  There are ~25 aircraft in service.

Future Plans: Expansion/replacement of the 767 fleet with VC.20 twinjets if operational evaluation is sucessful (these would also replace/compliment the quadjet VC.20s) to allow direct flights from the US East coast, combined with replacement of the 757s as a valid replacement becomes available.

Aloha Airlines/Air Cargo:

• 737-200 - The inter-island workhorse of the fleet in both passenger and Quick-change versions (the -200QCs are configured as cargo the vast majority of the time)
  
  There are 12-18 aircraft total in service
• Future Plans:The procurement of VC.15-200 (BAe-146-200) is ongoing to replace the fleet of 732s:
  

Note: Aloha, having experienced serious financial trouble, is partially kept afloat by Hawaiian Royal Mail Service contracts.

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The Californian National Flag Carrier, Imperial Indian Pacific & Oceanic is fundamentally an ocean liner company that got the rights to be an airline. They're considered to be the highest service airline in the world. Their main long range aircraft is the 747-400ER, with a interior fit that is considered by Boeing to be "Super Luxe"*



*Why "Super Luxe"? Well, here are the seat pitches and widths:

• Tourist Class(Economy)
  • Pitch: 42"
  • Width: 21"
• Third Class (Premium Economy)
  • Pitch: 50"
  • Width: 25"
• Second Class (Business, Angled Lay-Flat)
  • Pitch: 64"
  • Width: 34"
• First Class (Fully Lay-Flat)
  • Pitch: 96"
  • Width:36"
• First Class Suite
  • Two small folding bunks and a small couch
  • Analogous to a small private rail cabin
  • Cabin class only offered on 747, select two-deck VC.10, and historically on dedicated VC.10 trans-Indian Ocean flights

For comparison, my coach seat from Phoenix to Honolulu & from Anchorage to O'Hare had pitches of about 32" and a widths of just 17.5" *shudders*

The main difference between the Callieverse 747 and the historic 747 is that the Callieverse plane offers manual revision for the elevators and inboard ailerons (to meet Californian Aviation standards, which are exceptionally conservative†). To get these changes to the 747, IIP&O had to agree to be a launch partner on par with Pan Am.


†Californian crews have a 7 hour max flight time, and a four woman flight deck crew (Pilot, Co-Pilot, Flight Engineer, & Navigator) for open ocean flights. The flight time limitations also apply to the cabin crew due to their role in emergency evacuation. Yes, this means that some routes will have 3-4 full crews per flight.

While the 747-400ER is a staple of the IIP&O fleet, the majority of their wide bodied aircraft are of the VC.20 family. Produced under a joint production agreement with Ilyushin this family is based on the Il-96, but with full manual reversion:


Backing up the fleet is a very large number of continuously updated members of the VC.10 family (there are over 30 different models of this family that have been produced) Both the VC.10 Super and the double-deck Narrow body VC.10 Superb are shown here:




on shorter ranged routes, the 727 was a very popular airliner (shown here with Conway Engines):


Finally, in the late 1950s in the gap between the introduction of the VC.7 and the VC.10, IIP&O ordered a handful of 707-120D (-120 with Conway engines, an ahistorical derivation) and -420 airliners.

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I don't think people appreciate how difficult it is to make these liveries, especially at this scale. I would think Timothy spent a lot of time on this.

Not with a proper tool like Photoshop!

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USN components, camouflage colors, & reference links (World War II only)

The hard part is getting a livery that looks good on more than one plane. And the only use of layers were as masks on for the text and the flowers - there was a lot of select and selective fill tool use.

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*facepalm* designing a livery is more than just slapping colors on a plane wherever you feel like.

Those liveries are a great work!

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Yes, clearly I am entirely unaware of how to design liveries and camouflage schemes and view it solely as "slapping colors on a plane"...?



BTW: The correct usage of layers for creating liveries/paint schemes is this:

1. Use the Lasso (or Wand) tool to select the area for Color No.1.
2. Using your color palette, switch the Fill tool to "All Layers" and uncheck "Contiguous".
3. Fill the new layer with color using the background grey as a guide for where to apply the paint shades.
4. Move to next color.
5. ???
6. PROFIT!

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USN components, camouflage colors, & reference links (World War II only)

It seems that using MS-Paint has some limitations...
Great looking liveries, Tim.

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Thank you Kim for the crest

"Never fear to try on something new. Remember that the Titanic was built by professionals, and the Ark by an amateur"

Liveries split off from here at the request of the author.

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