Cathay Pacific Airlines are coming up to their 80th year of flying which started on 24 September 1946, and to celebrate this milestone they have painted one of their Airbus A 350s in a retro (Lettuce Leaf Sandwich!) scheme as worn by their airliners from 1971 to 1994:
Airbus A 350-900 B-LRJ has been with Cathay Pacific for 9 years and is photo'd arriving at Auckland International in Lettuce Leaf Sandwich colours on 8/1/26. The photo is from the Stuff website.
And here is one I prepared earlier! An unrecorded Cathay Pacific Boeing 707 on the spectacular approach to the Kowloon end of Kai Tak airport in 1978, having turned right at the Chequerboard. I specially took the photo with the streetlamp to give an idea of how low the airliners were and you can imagine the noise of the old jet engines of the 707! There were endless spectacular aircraft photographing opportunities from the streets near the airport and I spent many pleasant hours taking such photos on slide film. And you didn't have to wait long before the next airliner arrived. They were great days in Hong Kong.
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