SWA Maryland One

[TR4A]

http://www.southwest.com/about_swa/press/050614_maryland_one.html

 

[BaronPIC]

Beautiful!!

 

[Skeet Shooter]

I can't decide how much I like it or not...

BUT, I would definitely like to fly it!!

 

[Vladimir Lenin]

cool looking bird

 

[Dangerkitty]

Personally it gives me a headache. But one thing is for sure you wont have a hard time seeing it in the air.

 

[StopNTSing]

Interesting. With all the corporate belt-tightening of the last few years, I'd just assumed we'd not see another "state" airplane for a long time...if ever. I guess we can now look forward to eventually seeing a Florida, Illinois, and maybe even a Pennsylvania One in the future.

 

[DHPope93]

Nice. Take one the gaudiest state flags ever and put it on an airplane. I'm gonna go Comic Book Guy on it : Ugliest. SWA. Aircraft. Ever.

Peace,
DP

 

[Bake]

That ain't saying much.

 

[ivauir]

I Love it! Does anyone have a real picture not a computer rendering? THe press release says there was a flyby, but no pictures on "airliners.net" yet.

 

[Purpledog]

That's awesome! Some useless trivia about it's new paint job.

Maryland's flag bears the arms of the Calvert and Crossland families. Calvert was the family name of the Lords Baltimore who founded Maryland, and their colors of gold and black appear in the first and fourth quarters of the flag. Crossland was the family of the mother of George Calvert, first Lord Baltimore. The red and white Crossland colors, with a cross bottony, appear in the second and third quarters. This flag first was flown October 11, 1880, in Baltimore at a parade marking the 150th anniversary of the founding of Baltimore. It also was flown October 25, 1888, at Gettysburg Battlefield for ceremonies dedicating monuments to Maryland regiments of the Army of the Potomac. Officially, it was adopted as the State flag in 1904 (Chapter 48, Acts of 1904, effective March 9, 1904).