Orion III shuttle liveries

[StephenMiller]

In my all-time favourite film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, we see that Pan Am has survived up to 2001 and operates the Orion-III passenger shuttle and the Aries-1B lunar shuttle.  Would other companies and airlines operate the Orion in the 2001 universe?  I think an Orion would look good in USAF markings and also in Qantas, British Airways, or Lufthansa liveries too.  Any ideas?

[Archibald]

Air France...
Ryanair    (made a trip to the moon for 100 dollars... you'll eat peanuts and drink orange juice for three days, and a bus will carry you from South Pole to Clavius. Shut up, and enjoy your cheap ticket...)

Swissair


there's a cool model of the orion III...

[BillSlim]

Air France...
Ryanair    (made a trip to the moon for 100 dollars... you'll eat peanuts and drink orange juice for three days, and a bus will carry you from South Pole to Clavius. Shut up, and enjoy your cheap ticket...)

Swissair


there's a cool model of the orion III...

Knowing Ryanair they'll also ocasionally land you in the wrong place (what do you mean this isn't Moon Base Alpha?).   I mean how can one mistake Shackleton Barracks for Derry city?

Might be interesting to see the Orion in the classic BOAC colours, or maybe British Caledonian. If one were to use the British Airway scheme I think that the schemes applied to Concorde would be appropriate.

With the cheap air lines like Ryanair and Easy Jet it might be a case of bring your own oxygen.    

[jcf]

Emirates...serving the Na'ir Al Saif weapons station.

Holy Damocles, Batman!

Cheers, Jon

[Mossie]

I think some of the less busy schemes would work well on the Orion.  The 2001 Universe was very white & clean, along with the Pan Am Clipper.  Lufthansa, Virgin, KLM (but not the crazy sixties scheme!), anything predominantly white.

Defunct operators might be good too since Pan Am went t*ts up, Bill mentioned BOAC, when you mention them BEA comes immediately to mind.  Sabena, Eastern Airlines, TWA, there's plenty of food for thought there, but if you want to find a particular airline that popped it's clogs, have a look at the list on wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_airlines

[Jeffry Fontaine]

What about an Orion III in Military Airlift Command colors? The white upper fuselage surfaces over light gray on the wings and lower fuselage separated by the black cheat line would look very good on the Orion III.  RAF or Canadian markings for their respective air transport command schemes would also look good.  

[Archibald]

Orion III in Raspberry ripple!!!!!        

Jeffry, this idea rocks!  

[Archibald]

Air France...
Ryanair    (made a trip to the moon for 100 dollars... you'll eat peanuts and drink orange juice for three days, and a bus will carry you from South Pole to Clavius. Shut up, and enjoy your cheap ticket...)

Swissair


there's a cool model of the orion III...

Knowing Ryanair they'll also ocasionally land you in the wrong place (what do you mean this isn't Moon Base Alpha?).   I mean how can one mistake Shackleton Barracks for Derry city?

Might be interesting to see the Orion in the classic BOAC colours, or maybe British Caledonian. If one were to use the British Airway scheme I think that the schemes applied to Concorde would be appropriate.

With the cheap air lines like Ryanair and Easy Jet it might be a case of bring your own oxygen.  

           
Good one for the oxygen...    

[upnorth]

Can't forget Air Jamaica, mon!

And their catchy motto for the new millenium:

"Air Jamaica. We wanna' take ya' higha'!"