N665US build year: 9/1989, absorbed into Delta Air in 2008, Stored since 12/2016 (not active) The lady was already 19 years old when she got the new painting.
@Railfan Jay It was in late 2016 when it was retired And it wasn’t scrapped, it was sold to a yard where they took it apart and sold the skin to a Printing Company, that’s how I have a part of it, so technically most the parts are all around the world, not in some scrap yard.
@@MDE128 They had some absolute dicks in their upper management and tried to stave off demands made by their pilots and flight attendants unions. It...didn't work. The airline took a controlled flight into terrain and got absorbed by Delta. NWA avoided the spoke and hub practice where possible; doing direct connections instead. Need to go to Portland from Minneapolis? How about Hawaii? You're not bouncing through another airport to get their; it's a straight shot on Northwest.
This was a great video to explain to my 5 year old brother the difference between airlines and airplanes. The jet changing from one airline to the other. Thanks a lot.
Every time I come back to this video, I start to tear up. Not only does this video give me nostalgia because of the fact that I've watched this since I was maybe 11 or so, but seeing it makes me realize that this meant the end of an era for Northwest Airlines and then that N665US was the last of the 747s to fly passengers under an American airlines and that the 747 is unfortunately being retired and going off to the scrapyards. It's just sad. I sure hope I get to fly on a 747 at some point.
Dude.... I’m crying rn... I’m thinking it took so many workers to make this just to go to a junkyard... That’s one of the most beautiful pieces of histórical Aviation in the world... DELTA IF U ARE GOING TO TROW THE PLANES AWAY JUST GIVE THEM TO US
I miss working working for Delta. I was so thrilled to put my uniform on and go play with airplanes for 8 hours. That 11 dollar an hour part time job changed my life. Got my house from smart stock buying. I met my best friend there. I met my wife abusing jet fuel. I flew 500 plus flights that’s round trips every weekend I was blasting off somewhere. Unfortunately working a professional full time job and Airport at night my health started to deteriorating from burning the candle at both ends. I wouldn’t change a thing I have no regrets. But there isn’t a day where I see a jet and think about my time there. I just loved my job and loved Jets. One day I’ll return to an airline. I have to secure this pension and provide for my family.
It's all budgeted. You go by the case and the variable of tape for masking. Metal for stripping the paint, fineline and regular masking, plastic sheeting, metal paper etc. It's a process. lol
My salute to these guys. When we admire the beauty of an aircraft, we focus of size and shape, or engineering marvel and piloting skills, but rarely think of the hardwork involved in painting. Without their magical hands, the aircraft would be a corroding zombie!
ATCkeepsUsafe She definitely took off with a slight list. Did you even watch the video? *sigh* Armchair “experts”. I might be one, but I at least do the research.
Thanks sharing the incredible painting especially the 747, one airline to another. I cannot imagine how many gallons of different paint & time for these artistic painters not machine, but hand sprayed. Very impressive painting. Enjoyed it.
I worked for Boeing in Tulsa OK and the 747 was the first plane to work on. Altogether built about 150 747s including two for Air Force One and it's back up plane. It was my favorite commercial aircraft and a extremely great one. Has one of the best safety records.
No sure why they sanded that p,and. No a common practice to sand aluminum. Could have used a chemical brightener to prep the surface for paint. If I had caught the paint shop sanding on my plane when they painted it there would have been some real trouble.
The paint wasnt eco friendly. Thats definitely a chromated primer it went over. But topcoats degrade and fail just like on cars and have to be repainted every 5-ish years to properly protect the metal underneath. Newer coatings system are hitting the market which do away with chromated and employ a base/clear topcoat which offers 50-100% longer service life between repainting (better UV protection so less fading of colors and ckearcoats can be buffed where color coats usually cant) but Boeing has been slow to adopt the newer technologies.
Captain F. Simulations Well from my experience on US Air, I had a good one. It was a nice airline for me, maybe not others. But for me it definitely was.
+Flower Pot Productions well, I also had a wonderful flight with Continental before its merge with United once I went from Houston to the Twin Cities, Continental was a good airline too.
That plane was the 747 that had a massive hydraulic failure at 35,000 ft with 260 pas onboard!! It was traveling from Detroit to an international destination and it suddenly experienced a rudder hardover at its cruising altitude. The pilots had to make an emergency landing at Anchorage airport which is only big enough to handle 737’s!!!!! Everyone was ok but Northwest fixed the plane and then 2 years later even with that safety record delta bought the plane and it was recent,y retired in 2016. That plane in this vid carried so much pride, and emergency landing, and it served 2 Airlines! Wow!!!!
Yeah this is a very idiotic comment. The one involved in the NWA 85 incident was N661US, which is now preserved at the Delta museum in Atlanta. The aircraft shown in this video is N665US. Anchorage was certainly equipped to handle 747’s, you must’ve pulled that comment out of your ass. Also, the merger with Delta was announced nearly 6 years after that incident.
N665US getting painted for the final time. It was retired at the end of 2016 and gradually broken up. It flew 113,325 flight hours and 14,000 cycles. 10,000 planetags were made from it as well.
I really enjoyed this video. Thank you for putting it on so we can all see what is involved. Millennials will make lousy comments because they are lazy and despise work, but I thought it was neat as could be. Thanks again.
Wow, talk about being meticulous! I wonder if this was a “special” paint job ‘cause this plane was being used for something special. Usually I just see ‘em strip and paint but all the wet sanding they did on this plane I bet it looked amazing in person when it was done.
+Really Weird Videos ya thats true, you would think that an airline company would use this as cheap advertisement. It is something that can be cool if you can see what it is.
I've prepped and painted a Miata before, and that seemed like a lot of work. This is crazy. I wonder how many man hours are in this, and what it costs. I've heard the paint alone for this is around $200k.
for a moment when they put on the blue paint on the tail, i thought "lufthansa" then the blue on the lower fuselage + blue engines i thought "ba" cause ba has underneath the chatham dockyard flag a blue undercoat (but then i thought it cant be why is there red going on the tail but in complete the wrong location) in the end it was delta....
Live near an MRO and be willing to work hard for long hours. Having similar experience in automotive helps, too, but if you're a good painter in automotive refinish, you would probably want to stay put for better pay, less grueling work, and no need to live out in the boonies for your job.
Daily extreme temperature change from hot to cold, extreme humidity change and high wind force. Rapidly. It would wreck hell on the wrap It's not like a car.
747's have a high chance of lasting. The 747 has been around for a long time but its a big plane, and its ok for efficiency, so it gives airlines and airports a heap of money.
Oceanic Empire I mean it has the same Northwest livery as Northwest 19 so I guess it also reminds me of it, I think Northwest 85 is an incredible fight for your life type story cuz if the pilots just stopped what they were doing they would’ve crashed
This can be 1 years ago and cuz quarantine predicted i was bored but Imagine getting your plane a beautiful paint job for *it to crash only having a few injured*
This was made from North West to Delta, when North West was merged into delta. After that there was no use for them but to reuse them as delta, so they did that.
N665US
build year: 9/1989, absorbed into Delta Air in 2008, Stored since 12/2016 (not active)
The lady was already 19 years old when she got the new painting.
It’s been broken up already.
R.I.P N665US (´;︵;`)
Crazy because I own a bit of 665 I’m so glad I have a tiny bit of this plane but knowing it collapsed is sad
@Railfan Jay It was in late 2016 when it was retired And it wasn’t scrapped, it was sold to a yard where they took it apart and sold the skin to a Printing Company, that’s how I have a part of it, so technically most the parts are all around the world, not in some scrap yard.
Painting this 747 is like doing my homework
Looks easy but very hard :D
Just like my pp
Amen brother
The_NooBs I fell like it’s more then one
It takes weeks just to paint one aircraft
It doesn't look easy that thing
Friend: What kind of videos do you watch?
Me: yes
Just A Boeing well it’s complicated
Nothing strange for me :)
If only Delta made the right decision to keep these things. Along with the 757
IKR, tho it was wasn’t economically viable anymore, same reason they’re retiring their 777
Make more money on trasantlantic
You realize it was made by Boeing right?
Cole Hudson yes?
@@beamngmutilation yeah I'm glad it wasn't by airbus
Am I the only one who thinks that this was the most beautiful plane ever made?
Me too
+gypolike Nope. I utterly love the 747 in all her variants.
+gypolike Personally I prefer the A380 but the 747 is absolutely gorgeous!!!
+Tricia Jones me too
I thing that the A350XWB or the A380 are the most beautiful planes in the world.I hate the B747 design .It looks very bad
Sucks that Northwest had just finished repainting their whole fleet when they got bought out. It was such a cool livery.
When you skip through a time lapse cos it's too slow
hhaha i know!!
Lmao
Mr Blurry Fish shsuhshshhshshjshhsjjsshshshshshsshshshsshshsitshshshhshshhshithshshshshshhshshshhshhshhshssshshshshsshshshsitshshs
2x lol
@@Swiss-zi6hd even then its still slow
0:57 The the “generic” livery from Infinite Flight.
R.I.P. Northwest
I was going to type the same thing
I've never flown it so I don't know what is like.
@@MDE128 They had some absolute dicks in their upper management and tried to stave off demands made by their pilots and flight attendants unions. It...didn't work. The airline took a controlled flight into terrain and got absorbed by Delta.
NWA avoided the spoke and hub practice where possible; doing direct connections instead. Need to go to Portland from Minneapolis? How about Hawaii? You're not bouncing through another airport to get their; it's a straight shot on Northwest.
This was a great video to explain to my 5 year old brother the difference between airlines and airplanes. The jet changing from one airline to the other. Thanks a lot.
I watched this video 9 years ago, I had a dream where this music was playing, and immediately remembered it. I’m back to watch it again
I have almost 10,000 hours in the B747, much of it as captain. Finest machine ever built by human hands. I miss it a lot!!
Every time I come back to this video, I start to tear up.
Not only does this video give me nostalgia because of the fact that I've watched this since I was maybe 11 or so, but seeing it makes me realize that this meant the end of an era for Northwest Airlines and then that N665US was the last of the 747s to fly passengers under an American airlines and that the 747 is unfortunately being retired and going off to the scrapyards. It's just sad. I sure hope I get to fly on a 747 at some point.
yo bro sameeee i watched this when i was around 4-6 years old
3:44 "So... This is my life..?"
i just realised how badly angled that is 💀
Why is this recommended in 2019
Good question
i don't know
Go the Rabbits!
Probably because these are a little more rare now that hardly any airlines operate 747s
Because it’s interesting -_-
Dude.... I’m crying rn... I’m thinking it took so many workers to make this just to go to a junkyard... That’s one of the most beautiful pieces of histórical
Aviation in the world... DELTA IF U ARE GOING TO TROW THE PLANES AWAY JUST GIVE THEM TO US
They saved the first one I donated to it.
I pay $80 a month for high speed internet, to watch 240p videos....
I pay $60/mo for high speed internet to come and look at whiny comments...
+colavfreak2 i pay $10 a month for ultra high speed Internet,,
im Indonesian!
+Dimas Ikhsandio Telkomsel 4G & XL 4G bro,,, indosat juga,, gila kencengnya ga nahan 👍
I pay 60$ a month for 20MBS download, 0.5 MBS upload and to find out peoples internet situations. Love Canadian cable and internet prices
+Noah S. i pay for 10$ a month for 50 mbps /s
I miss working working for Delta. I was so thrilled to put my uniform on and go play with airplanes for 8 hours. That 11 dollar an hour part time job changed my life. Got my house from smart stock buying. I met my best friend there. I met my wife abusing jet fuel. I flew 500 plus flights that’s round trips every weekend I was blasting off somewhere. Unfortunately working a professional full time job and Airport at night my health started to deteriorating from burning the candle at both ends. I wouldn’t change a thing I have no regrets. But there isn’t a day where I see a jet and think about my time there. I just loved my job and loved Jets. One day I’ll return to an airline. I have to secure this pension and provide for my family.
It's all budgeted. You go by the case and the variable of tape for masking. Metal for stripping the paint, fineline and regular masking, plastic sheeting, metal paper etc. It's a process. lol
My salute to these guys. When we admire the beauty of an aircraft, we focus of size and shape, or engineering marvel and piloting skills, but rarely think of the hardwork involved in painting. Without their magical hands, the aircraft would be a corroding zombie!
It looks so good unpainted, sad nobody does that anymore.
I think they don't do that anymore because that caused to much glare and is irritating for you're eyes
It kind of looked like the plane was out of horizontal balance on takeoff
ATCkeepsUsafe She definitely took off with a slight list. Did you even watch the video?
*sigh* Armchair “experts”. I might be one, but I at least do the research.
Could be the crosswind pushing her
Great video. Love the music
Thanks sharing the incredible painting especially the 747, one airline to another. I cannot imagine how many gallons of different paint & time for these artistic painters not machine, but hand sprayed. Very impressive painting. Enjoyed it.
imagine if they just shipped the plane out as it was at 5:24
"I want a full refund!"
Yeah that would be funny
Nick Rajaie
Lmao
p eibye Marry Christmas Delta
Wooow...quite a big job...
Amazing how much work goes into branding a plane! Wow!
I worked for Boeing in Tulsa OK and the 747 was the first plane to work on. Altogether built about 150 747s including two for Air Force One and it's back up plane. It was my favorite commercial aircraft and a extremely great one. Has one of the best safety records.
great video;
liked the nwa livery though ;-( especially on the 747
Repainting a NWA 747. If you don't want to see the sanding skip to 2:51 to see the painting.
United 737 i've been searching for this comment
Ok
Me too
No sure why they sanded that p,and. No a common practice to sand aluminum. Could have used a chemical brightener to prep the surface for paint. If I had caught the paint shop sanding on my plane when they painted it there would have been some real trouble.
@@flyerbob124 yeah I like using paint stripper for removing paint. I'm still here after 6 years.
Well done MoFo’s, it takes a special breed of workers perform line of work. 🤘🤘🤘
So skillfull, so professional. Jaw dropping!
This is like guess the airline before it is revealed.
Thought it was British for a sec and then they added the red triangle
That is an insane amount of work to for make the plane essentially the same color
The paint could be a newer type that weighs less and may be more eco-friendly. Not only that, but Delta has white while Northwest had silver.
The paint wasnt eco friendly. Thats definitely a chromated primer it went over. But topcoats degrade and fail just like on cars and have to be repainted every 5-ish years to properly protect the metal underneath. Newer coatings system are hitting the market which do away with chromated and employ a base/clear topcoat which offers 50-100% longer service life between repainting (better UV protection so less fading of colors and ckearcoats can be buffed where color coats usually cant) but Boeing has been slow to adopt the newer technologies.
Still awesome to watch how they do it ... nov2019.. hundredth time viewing this
No painting over shiny. And ya best cut and buff when done!
Because of the merges, many good airlines are now gone.
You speak the truth!
I agree, US Airways was a great airline and is now gone. US Airways should've bought American instead to be honest.
Lots of people are saying US Airways should have bought AA when they've been complaining about US Airways aircraft. wtf people
Captain F. Simulations Well from my experience on US Air, I had a good one. It was a nice airline for me, maybe not others. But for me it definitely was.
+Flower Pot Productions well, I also had a wonderful flight with Continental before its merge with United once I went from Houston to the Twin Cities, Continental was a good airline too.
well i guess dre, eazy and their Boys sold their plane then...
lol
HAHAHAH ikr 😂😂
I C A n S P e l
+IcarumeArts'
boi
Leon Wi.
strepitoso..eccezionale..gran lavoro !! love from Italy 🇮🇹😘
Northwest: **being removed and replaced by Delta**
[Some time later]
Delta: and that's where I was born.
0:19 Looks like this plane was... Straight outta Compton
+Joshua Kilford Oh god why
+Mustafa Ahmedani ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
+Joshua Kilford I don't get it
nice one xD
+Makis Makiavelis Nevermind, i get it now.
To paint a Boeing 747-400, you would use over 90 gallons of paint. The paint would weigh around 555 lbs. Thank you everyone.
Not sure why UA-cam recommended this to me, but in quarantine, whatever it recommends, I am happy to watch.
That plane was the 747 that had a massive hydraulic failure at 35,000 ft with 260 pas onboard!! It was traveling from Detroit to an international destination and it suddenly experienced a rudder hardover at its cruising altitude. The pilots had to make an emergency landing at Anchorage airport which is only big enough to handle 737’s!!!!! Everyone was ok but Northwest fixed the plane and then 2 years later even with that safety record delta bought the plane and it was recent,y retired in 2016. That plane in this vid carried so much pride, and emergency landing, and it served 2 Airlines! Wow!!!!
Yeah this is a very idiotic comment. The one involved in the NWA 85 incident was N661US, which is now preserved at the Delta museum in Atlanta. The aircraft shown in this video is N665US. Anchorage was certainly equipped to handle 747’s, you must’ve pulled that comment out of your ass. Also, the merger with Delta was announced nearly 6 years after that incident.
poor northwest
+ᅚᅚ ᅚᅚ At least the plane is there
How to kill a airline in under six minutes!
lol
Max W 7 minutes*
RIP!😣😣
green before the blue, thats crazy!!!
Enjoyed this video, thumbs up. Cheers from sunny Sint Maarten in the Caribbean.
This is so satisfying
Just think about the fact that this is what happens on ONE PLANE. Think about the number of planes that fly in total.
What a wonderful vid! Thanks!
Wow! The Graphics are fantastic!
Fact: painting a 747 takes about 555 lb (252 kg) of paint, just about the weight of your average American. : )
Without baggage of course.
ur kinda genus
So if you melt me to a liquid I could cover a 747?
Moron
What makes Burger King so special?
Saw my first 737 today...whoop whoop!!
N665US getting painted for the final time. It was retired at the end of 2016 and gradually broken up. It flew 113,325 flight hours and 14,000 cycles. 10,000 planetags were made from it as well.
I really enjoyed this video. Thank you for putting it on so we can all see what is involved. Millennials will make lousy comments because they are lazy and despise work, but I thought it was neat as could be. Thanks again.
Wow, talk about being meticulous! I wonder if this was a “special” paint job ‘cause this plane was being used for something special. Usually I just see ‘em strip and paint but all the wet sanding they did on this plane I bet it looked amazing in person when it was done.
If I was a bird, I would crap on that thing and give my self a million points.
lol
NinjaOnANinja have JM age
Me too
It's a fucking 747. Why would you do that?
That’s amazing
I'd probably watch a plane painting video even if it wasn't time lapse
Lol how are we supposed to make out what the paint is in 240p resolution
This was from 2011, better has come out in the tech race.
chiwea123 Even in 2011 we still had 720p footage... you could spend $100 on a walmart camcorder and get that.
+Really Weird Videos ya thats true, you would think that an airline company would use this as cheap advertisement. It is something that can be cool if you can see what it is.
chiwea123 Definitly
One of my first videos ever watched when I didn't have an account.
nice 747 painting.
it,s looks very shiny
I've prepped and painted a Miata before, and that seemed like a lot of work. This is crazy. I wonder how many man hours are in this, and what it costs. I've heard the paint alone for this is around $200k.
for a moment when they put on the blue paint on the tail, i thought "lufthansa" then the blue on the lower fuselage + blue engines i thought "ba" cause ba has underneath the chatham dockyard flag a blue undercoat (but then i thought it cant be why is there red going on the tail but in complete the wrong location) in the end it was delta....
Dang, I was thinking south west airlines.
First I thought it was British Airlines, and then they painted the red triangle and that gave it away
How does a fella get hooked up with a job painting big airplanes like that?
Live near an MRO and be willing to work hard for long hours. Having similar experience in automotive helps, too, but if you're a good painter in automotive refinish, you would probably want to stay put for better pay, less grueling work, and no need to live out in the boonies for your job.
Amazing Love it ;)
that is very cool..!! Your video is very entertaining, well done my Friend...$$$
They repainted it once they realised what nwa means...
What does it mean
+Daniel ! North west airlines?
Niggas with attitude, it was a group of rappers with ice cube, eazy e, Dr dre, and it was in the 80s-90s
I mean obviously that's not what the plane meant but.. Meh you get what I mean
+le iboy oh
RIP northwest airlines
Wow! Cool Airbus 747
great video, a lot of work!
They should just vinyl wrap it - one guy with a hair drier, couple of days, no biggie.
Daily extreme temperature change from hot to cold, extreme humidity change and high wind force. Rapidly. It would wreck hell on the wrap
It's not like a car.
Blue its a joke...
Blue is an idiot
It took me so long to figure out what airline it was for ugh smh
hayden : until says delta i dont figure 😂
hayden : me too
Wow so much work !
From north-west , to Delta.... So cool!😊
Maltco yt Northwest cooler
Not cool at all, a tragedy.
An old plane is still in business wow
It very old
Venkat Duddukri i heard that they are retiring the 747-400... its very sad... the 400 has been in service for nearly 40 yrs
747's have a high chance of lasting. The 747 has been around for a long time but its a big plane, and its ok for efficiency, so it gives airlines and airports a heap of money.
brushed aluminium so pretty why would they want to paint over
69op2gg1005ify0m it protectes the plane from damage/rust
Aluminium? Rust? Oh, ok!
Zoid Burg termites.
Mikosch2
Clear lacquer?
Brushed aluminium looks outdated like airplanes from the 50's
MY GOD the memories of watching this in 2011 and 2012
SHE'S BEAUTIFUL!
Me: sees this video and notices it’s Northwest Airlines
Also me: thinks of Northwest 85
LMTX 1528 I know that, their painting an Northwest Aircraft
I think of Northwest 19, the plane that helped NW85
Oceanic Empire I mean it has the same Northwest livery as Northwest 19 so I guess it also reminds me of it, I think Northwest 85 is an incredible fight for your life type story cuz if the pilots just stopped what they were doing they would’ve crashed
@@aviationgaming1564 If they followed the QFR they would've crash too
Oceanic Empire true
This is the best plane made so far
No the best is the A380
Brayden Kelly no way the boeing 747 is the best!!!!
+Rohith Augustine no way the a380 is 2 full deckers
it was developed decades after the 747 was built
the 747 is one of the most successful aircraft
its in service since 1963
amazing...great job guys
I remember watching this when I was very little
Nwa I flown this bird in flight simulator :)
The name of the video must be repainting a 747.
Id be interested in hearing a step by step description of what they were doing.
This is really satisfying
RIP the 747
Am I the only person thoroughly confused?
Delta's livery and logo looked good in 747s :)
This can be 1 years ago and cuz quarantine predicted i was bored but
Imagine getting your plane a beautiful paint job for *it to crash only having a few injured*
Who else watching while there is basically not planes flying at the moment
#DL747FAREWELL Also #RIPNWA
That's one hell of a prep job 😱
Wow, this sure was a very labour intensive job.
2020 anyone
RIP Delta 747
This was made from North West to Delta, when North West was merged into delta. After that there was no use for them but to reuse them as delta, so they did that.
Beautiful!