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Patty Winter wrote:

I assume that these days, those logo replacements are all being done in
post-production. After all, that's a lot easier than actually repainting
the plane! (I guess they could use those temporary decals, but again, that
seems like more trouble and expense than doing it digitally.)

A temporary vinyl decal is alot cheaper then doing it in post-production,
and 'automatically' looks correct in every shot. Adding it in post, they
need to worry about getting the angles of everything right, shadows, etc.

My question is, while the computer jockeys are fiddling with the livery,
why do they bother leaving in the tail number? Just to make the plane
look more authentic? Contractual agreement with the owners to publicize
their plane? Anyone know?

In most cases, the computer jockeys are probably not fiddling with
it, so no chance to take out the tail numbers. The tail numbers
are probably left in since so few people even know how to look them
up, and even fewer take the time to do so.

I know for the movie 'Air Force One', they rented a cargo 747 and
painted it up as AF1. It caused a bit of confusion when it showed
up at various airports without POTUS and friends.

John
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