{"product_id":"1-200-sq-wings-l2056-boeing-b747-8i-d-abyt-koln-dlh-retro-1970-5th-livery-lufthansa-limited-edition","title":"1\/200 SQ Wings (L2056) Boeing B747-8i (D-ABYT) *Koln* \"DLH Retro 1970 5th Livery\" Lufthansa (Limited Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003e1\/200 SQ Wings (L2056) Boeing B747-8i (D-ABYT) *Koln* \"DLH Retro 1970 5th Livery\" Lufthansa (Limited Edition)  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"row\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"row main\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"large-8 columns\"\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003cins class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2675363194522947\" data-ad-slot=\"4937725973\" data-adsbygoogle-status=\"done\" data-ad-status=\"filled\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"aswift_1_host\"\u003e\n\u003ca class=\"menu-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.airlinereporter.com\/2015\/02\/photos-lufthansa-paints-boeing-747-8-intercontinental-retro-livery\/#menu\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/ins\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003carticle id=\"post-34444\" class=\"post-34444 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-uncategorized tag-2755 tag-747-8i tag-airline-livery tag-boeing tag-boeing-747-8-intercontinental tag-lufthansa tag-photos tag-queen-of-the-skies tag-retro-livery tag-special-livery\"\u003e\u003cheader\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"headerwrap\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"title\"\u003e\n\u003ch1\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.airlinereporter.com\/2015\/02\/photos-lufthansa-paints-boeing-747-8-intercontinental-retro-livery\/\" title=\"PHOTOS: Lufthansa Paints a Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental in Retro Livery\"\u003ePHOTOS: Lufthansa Paints a  Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental in Retro Livery\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eBy\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.airlinereporter.com\/author\/bigmal\/\" title=\"Posts by Malcolm Muir\" rel=\"author\"\u003eMalcolm Muir\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"time\"\u003e\u003ctime datetime=\"2014-04-24\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"day\"\u003e10\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"month-year\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"month\"\u003eFeb\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"year\"\u003e2015\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/time\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/header\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"attachment_34467\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"\u003e\n\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34467\" class=\"size-large wp-image-34467\" src=\"https:\/\/www.airlinereporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015-02-09-14_13_29-747-8I-DLH-1513-RC039-In-The-Paint-Hangar_Contact-S...-640x428.jpg\" alt=\"Front part of Lufthansa's special retro livery on the Boeing 747-8I - Photo: Lufthansa\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\"\u003e\n\u003cp id=\"caption-attachment-34467\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"\u003eFront part of Lufthansa’s special retro livery on the Boeing 747-8I – Photo: Lufthansa\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLufthansa was the first airline to fly the Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental and now has 16 of the type in service.  Over the history of the airline and the 747 program, Lufthansa has been a very good customer.  They have operated the 747-100, 200, \u0026amp; 400 (with a good portion of those 747-400s still flying).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe airline, as a whole, has been around since 1926 (in some form or another), during which time they have been through a number of liveries.  What better way for an airline to receive their latest aircraft than to paint it in an retro livery?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan id=\"more-34444\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"attachment_27698\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.airlinereporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/LH748.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27698\" class=\"size-large wp-image-27698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.airlinereporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/LH748-640x422.jpg\" alt=\"D-ABYM taken at Paine Field by Bernie Leighton.\" width=\"640\" height=\"422\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003cp id=\"caption-attachment-27698\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"\u003eA Lufthansa 747-8i (D-ABYM) at Paine Field – Photo: Bernie Leighton | AirlineReporter\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLufthansa 747-8I’s have been a consistent sight throughout the world — flying in and out of their Frankfurt hub.  As Boeing produces the aircraft (at a mind-numbingly slow rate of 1.5 per month, to be further reduced to 1.1 later this year), the majority of these new Queens of the Sky have been for this German airline.  But they all have been in their latest ’œEurowhite’ livery.  Some people believe that the Eurowhite can be quite boring, however I do like the livery on the 747-8I.  It still pays homage to some of the original elements of the livery from the airline’s early days in the 1920s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"attachment_34447\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.airlinereporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ASD-GRZ-18-F2-P.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34447\" class=\"size-large wp-image-34447\" src=\"https:\/\/www.airlinereporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ASD-GRZ-18-F2-P-640x464.jpg\" alt=\"An early Lufthansa Boeing 747-200 seen here in at Graz Thalerhof in Austria - Photo: Lufthansa\" width=\"640\" height=\"464\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003cp id=\"caption-attachment-34447\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"\u003eAn early Lufthansa Boeing 747-200 seen here in at Graz Thalerhof in Austria – Photo: Lufthansa\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe earliest days of Lufthansa (seen before the airline was officially formed) saw the airline with a boring old grey paint scheme.  But that was in the days before airline liveries really even existed.  What it did have was the Lufthansa logo, which was a stylized crane in flight.  That logo has stuck with the airline and over time has been modernized as well.  When the 747 was introduced in 1970 it wore the livery that Lufthansa took into the Jet Age.  That livery, however, could not fully come back to life on newer aircraft.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"attachment_34468\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"\u003e\n\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34468\" class=\"size-large wp-image-34468\" src=\"https:\/\/www.airlinereporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015-02-09-14_16_43-747-8I-DLH-1513-RC039-In-The-Paint-Hangar_Contact-S...-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"The classic black nose cap on the retro livery - Photo: Lufthansa\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\"\u003e\n\u003cp id=\"caption-attachment-34468\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"\u003eThe classic black radome (nose cone) on the retro livery – Photo: Lufthansa\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs you can see the new 747-8I livery is slightly different.  Unfortunately, there will not be a bare metal belly on this aircraft, painted in a slightly less-shiny grey.  So think of this retro as a more ’œtribute’ than a true re-creation.  Sadly, with the introduction of composite materials into the building process, aircraft just can’t have a bare metal finish; one of the reasons American Airlines ultimately changed their livery.  So the grey is about as close as we can get.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"attachment_34448\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.airlinereporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Lufthansa_LH_A321_D-AIRX_Frankfurt_FRA.jpeg\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34448\" class=\"size-large wp-image-34448\" src=\"https:\/\/www.airlinereporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Lufthansa_LH_A321_D-AIRX_Frankfurt_FRA-640x424.jpeg\" alt=\"The Lufthansa 50th Anniversary retrojet livery.  Seen here on an Airbus A321 in Frankfurt.\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003cp id=\"caption-attachment-34448\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"\u003eThe Lufthansa 50th Anniversary retrojet livery. Seen here on an Airbus A321 in Frankfurt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis retro livery is not the airline’s first.  The first Lufthansa Retrojet was painted in 2005 to celebrate the airline’s 50th year of operation (post-war).  That livery was painted on an Airbus A321; the original bearer (D-AIRX) has since been repainted back to the standard livery.  Fret not, fellow AvGeeks, as Lufthansa kept the livery going and is still flying another A321 (D-AIDV) in that same 50th Anniversary Livery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith Lufthansa coming into their 60th year of ’œPost-War’ operations this year, it was obvious something was going to be done to celebrate.  Thankfully, Lufthansa took it upon themselves to create the world’s largest retro livery aircraft.  Who are we to fault them?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"entry-sharing\"\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"twitter\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"box\"\u003e\n\u003ca class=\"share\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?original_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.airlinereporter.com%2F\u0026amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\u0026amp;text=PHOTOS:%20Lufthansa%20Paints%20a%20Boeing%20747-8%20Intercontinental%20in%20Retro%20Livery\u0026amp;tw_p=tweetbutton\u0026amp;url=https:\/\/www.airlinereporter.com\/2015\/02\/photos-lufthansa-paints-boeing-747-8-intercontinental-retro-livery\/\u0026amp;via=airlinereporter\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?original_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.airlinereporter.com%2F\u0026amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\u0026amp;text=PHOTOS:%20Lufthansa%20Paints%20a%20Boeing%20747-8%20Intercontinental%20in%20Retro%20Livery\u0026amp;tw_p=tweetbutton\u0026amp;url=https:\/\/www.airlinereporter.com\/2015\/02\/photos-lufthansa-paints-boeing-747-8-intercontinental-retro-livery\/\u0026amp;via=airlinereporter\" class=\"count\"\u003e \u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tags\"\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.airlinereporter.com\/tag\/747\/\" rel=\"tag\"\u003e747\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.airlinereporter.com\/tag\/747-8i\/\" rel=\"tag\"\u003e747-8I\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.airlinereporter.com\/tag\/airline-livery\/\" rel=\"tag\"\u003eAirline Livery\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.airlinereporter.com\/tag\/boeing\/\" rel=\"tag\"\u003eBoeing\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.airlinereporter.com\/tag\/boeing-747-8-intercontinental\/\" rel=\"tag\"\u003eBoeing 747-8 Intercontinental\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.airlinereporter.com\/tag\/lufthansa\/\" rel=\"tag\"\u003eLufthansa\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.airlinereporter.com\/tag\/photos\/\" rel=\"tag\"\u003ePhotos\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.airlinereporter.com\/tag\/queen-of-the-skies\/\" rel=\"tag\"\u003eQueen of the Skies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.airlinereporter.com\/tag\/retro-livery\/\" rel=\"tag\"\u003eRetro Livery\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.airlinereporter.com\/tag\/special-livery\/\" rel=\"tag\"\u003eSpecial Livery\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"author-info\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"author-avatar\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.airlinereporter.com\/author\/bigmal\/\" rel=\"author\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4fe577ef6e83f36123ba7d456b706d46d5a498c7eb23e9ab20a3e08aa7813ac8?s=100\u0026amp;d=mm\u0026amp;r=r\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4fe577ef6e83f36123ba7d456b706d46d5a498c7eb23e9ab20a3e08aa7813ac8?s=200\u0026amp;d=mm\u0026amp;r=r 2x\" class=\"avatar avatar-100 photo\" height=\"100\" width=\"100\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"author-description\"\u003e\n\u003ch2 class=\"author-title\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.airlinereporter.com\/author\/bigmal\/\" rel=\"author\"\u003eMalcolm Muir\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e CORRESPONDENT - SEATTLE, WA.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eMal is an Australian native who has been a huge fan of airlines and aviation and currently works in airport-related operations. 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