Airline Tail Colours

Airlines continue to expand worldwide and interest in airliners, their liveries and operations has never been higher. Across the globe, a bewildering array of colour schemes can be seen. From a distance, such as the viewing terrace at an airport or from a location close to a runway, the most obvious part of an airliner's livery is most often the colour scheme on the tail. Keeping up to date with these can be a difficult task, but this book is the essential guide to identifying the airline whose aircraft in in your line of sight. The latest edition of Midland Publishing's popular Airline Tail Colours provides an at-a-glance aid to the quick recognition of airline tail colours. It has been carefully designed to appeal to both the serious airline enthusiast, the frequent traveller and even to those with perhaps only a passing interest in the subject. The third edition of this popular title is in a new larger format than previous editions, but will still fit in the pocket, photo bag or the glove compartment of a car. Produced in colour throughout, Airline Tail Colours presents a dazzling array of the tail colour schemes from about 800 of the world's airlines. It forms a unique record of the increasingly colourful and artistic designs on today's airliners. Not only does the title answer the needs of basic recognition, it provides the airline's nationality, three-letter code used for flight numbers, radio call-sign prefixes, the airline's international registration prefix, the main operating base and the aircraft types used. There are helpful de-code tables to ensure that this indispensable companion is user-friendly and easily understood. This new edition of Airline Tail Colours offers exceptional value and is a handy, portable and essential reference guide which will appeal to a wide range of readers from dedicated enthusiast through to those with a less intense interest in this fascinating subject.