I left Dubai for my pilot training course just 10 days before the war began— an event that has since affected the entire Gulf region and beyond. But my thoughts never left.
This post is a tribute to the resilience, professionalism, and dedication of the people who works in aviation.
Deep respect to those working through these challenging times — Stay safe, especially those keeping the world connected.
Eid Mubarak 🌙
World Peace 🙏
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Dear Sam Chui,
My name is Ryan. I am 7 years old. I live in Canada.I love planes! I like your videos. I like Etihad Airways. Have you been on Vietnam Airlines? My mom is Vietnamese.
RYAN
Hy Sam
I love your videos I am know a fan of yours and Id like to meet you one day maybe for my birthday
Your videos look interesting
Thank you
Nicolas
Hi Sam,
Long time subscriber and avgeek myself, aged 65 now, so I’d say going on 52 years on the avgeek part!
I am very disappointed in the new United livery. Not a fan of the billboard, continued lack of a window cheatline, a blase look that has has been the industry “trend” for twenty years, and the mamby pamby blue–preferring instead the darker, deeper/richer blue of the 60s livery. (Read on). . I was actually hoping not for a return to the “tulip” as my #1 choice, though I would have much preferred that…but better yet, predating that (and likely you (!)), the original “Mainliner” jet livery – the DC-8, B720, Caravelle and B727 – starting in 1958. (The last prop planes shared this new livery–“Mainliner” was already the United moniker dating back to the 40s, but this was a new look–and may have actually predated the jets by a year or two?).
The 60’s Mainliner scherme to me is the cleanest and hence timeless of all the United liveries, and as I suggested directly to Munoz’ office around the time of the 747’s retirement, they should “do that” livery for that event specifically, butg also henceforward — as both a harkening back to the beginning but also a reaffirmation of service and a return to “Fly the friendly skies,” regardless of whether they dared utter those words again in the midst of the cynicism they likely would have faced—but a service axiom or paradigm they needed to return to regardless. Well, they “sorta” did a hybrid of the follow-on/related “Friendship” and “Stars & Bars” livery by (literally) pasting on a temporary overlay in the front fuselage, but retaining the Continental globe–as some posters have said. In any event, the Mainliner is “the” classic domestic-routes equivalent to the icon of all icons, the original Pan Am 707, 727, DC-8 scheme. Lots of videos depicting this iconic (repeating myself) era and livery, but if you want to see a neat glimpse in action, watch the first minute of Blue Hawaii with Elvis as his Mainliner-schemed DC-8 landed in Honolulu. As you might have guessed, this “same exact” DC-8 was my first flight–transcontinental–in 1962, and so am sure central to forming a near life long impression of that design.
Lastly, while the tail globe appears well done, and again may have been “necessary” as a corporate peacekeeper, it’s unfortunate we could not have had thd blue and red Mainliner “dart”–or tulip–again – instead.
Great video as usual, keep them up!!
Gregg