Aviation livery design
Aviation livery design doesn’t come much better than this…
Larchfield are privileged to have been part of this amazing design and installation watch the time lapse video below.
Our #YearofZayed Humanitarian Freighter will be delivering aid to those in need throughout the world. Watch it come to life with its brand new livery. pic.twitter.com/IUiS7lAF6B
— Etihad Airways (@EtihadAirways) June 4, 2018
This project was two-part which involved Larchfield producing and installing two different commemorative liveries on this Boeing 777 cargo aircraft alongside an Airbus 380 passenger plane.
The design was presented to Larchfield via our long-standing client Etihad Airways Engineering.
The livery design was produced panel by panel in the UK before being shipped out the Abu Dhabi for installation by our Larchfield team of professional installers.
As you can imagine installing a large livery piece by piece is challenging but our team managed to install and ready both aircraft in a total of seven days saving massive expense on downtime and the cost of painting.
As time goes on more airlines are realising the benefit of using aircraft approved vinyl for this kind of short-term design work, in fact, many more airlines have realised that using vinyl is also perfect for wet-lease agreements.
Technically speaking the Year of Zayed livery design has really pushed the boundaries of what is possible when it comes to using aircraft approved film.
As you can imagine there are many considerations to take into account which could affect the performance of the film due to the environment.
3M provide warranted solutions for peace but there’s also the challenge of getting the design to look correct on the aircraft with so many curves and angles to deal with, especially with facial imagery the slightest mistake in the application could make the whole image look completely different to the original design.
Needless to say, we are very proud of this livery and enjoy seeing the enthusiast capturing it on camera around the world. We are looking forward to many more projects like this one in the future.
If you have any livery requirements you would like to discuss get in contact today and we will be happy to help.