15+ Airplanes that dared to design with various designs and colors

Have you ever wondered why the color of almost all planes is white? Among the various reasons, white reflects all the light that falls on it, preventing the plane from overheating when receiving sunlight. It is also cheaper for airlines to use this color, as the paint adds between 270 and 550 extra kilos to the aircraft, increasing fuel consumption. Finally, light colors make it easy to spot cracks or fissures that need repair.

Even with so many reasons for adopting white, some airlines decided to dare in aesthetics, putting a little color in their aircraft. Because of this, nowadays it is possible to travel on airplanes decorated with beautiful images of the Northern Lights, for example, or characters like Hello Kitty and Pokémon.

O awesome.club presents in this post the most original planes that can make your trip even more interesting and fun.

The Mexican company’s Boeing 787 Dreamliner was super beautiful with the designs and colors in the image above. The model has an antiturbulence system, advanced temperature control and larger windows, for passengers to better appreciate the landscape during the flight.

The airline EVA Air has seven different aircraft models with images of Hello Kitty and her characters. These planes run on special routes, but you can book a flight if you want to travel on one of them.

If you are a fan of the saga Star Wars, needs to travel somewhere in the world on special planes operated by All Nippon Airways from Japan. There are three different models decorated with motifs from the saga, with routes from Japan to the United States, Europe and other Asian countries.

The Japanese airline was not only inspired by the saga Star Wars, but also in Pokémon drawings. Now, any fan of Pikachu and other characters will be inspired to travel in these aircraft. And the detailing of the pokeballs on the turbines helped create an impressive and colorful design.

The British airline decided to paint the face of a panda on the front of the plane (cockpit) to celebrate the inauguration of the Heathrow (London) – Chengdu (China) route. It turned out pretty cute, didn’t it?

Australian artist Rene Kulitja decorated the outside of the plane pictured above, taking inspiration from the landscape of her country. In this case, it was based on Uluru, a monolith located in the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, in the north of central Australia, declared a World Heritage Site by Unesco.

The plane was used to transport the Russian Olympic team to Turin, Italy, during the 2006 Winter Olympics. The aircraft has a bold, colorful design and features the Russian flag on the tail.

Austrian Airlines decided to decorate the plane that transported the Vienna Philharmonic to the United States during its tour in 2006 and to commemorate the 250th birthday of Mozart, the Austrian composer who is still one of the icons of classical music. That is why the aircraft carries several designs of musical instruments used by the renowned Philharmonic.

Undoubtedly, because of the yellow color and because it features the Simpson family, it is a very eye-catching plane. Western Pacific created this design especially to promote the famous American series. Admittedly, they put Marge with her huge blue hair in the right place.

Iceland’s low-cost airline used purple as its brand color. All of his planes were either purple with white or white with purple. The company stopped operating in March 2019.

To answer passengers’ questions about technical issues related to the plane and the flight, the airline created the Flying 101, indicating what each part of the plane contains. Among the information, he signaled where the black box is, clarifying that, in fact, it is orange.

The airline adopted the color black, in homage to the national rugby team, the famous All Blacks (all black), a kind of icon of the country. Most of their planes are half white and half black, but some of them (Boeings 777, 787-9 Dreamliner, etc.) have been painted completely black.

Iceland’s airline has several very distinctive designs based on the country’s culture. One of the planes was painted in the colors of the Icelandic flag. Another features a glacier and this one in the photo — undoubtedly the most colorful and original — represents the Northern Lights.

The Thai low-cost airline has chosen images of birds to decorate its planes. The company’s own name, Nok, means birds.

The aircraft in the photo bears the image of a salmon measuring almost 40 meters. The design was created in partnership with the “Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute”, to promote the natural and sustainable seafood found in Alaska – the most iconic of which is salmon.

Messi’s team and company had their own plane to compete in the 2014 World Cup, here in Brazil. In addition to Messi himself, the aircraft carried images of strikers Sergio Agüero and Gonzalo Higuaín.

Because of the 2019 University Winter Games, held in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, the airline created a plane with the official logo of the competition. On the front part of the aircraft, a drawing of the competition’s official mascot, a Siberian dog, was placed.

Have you ever traveled on a plane as interesting as the ones featured in this post? Would you like other airlines to adopt these examples? Leave your opinion in the comments!