Air New Zealand A320 Crazy About Rugby - build & paint

The build of the aircraft ; time lapse video footage of our first new domestic A320 being painted with all black livery

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[speedfreaknz]

I thought it was meant to have the new sharklets on it??

[Air New Zealand]

- no the 4th one will

[Air New Zealand]

- no the 4th one will

[pegasusgiraffe]

Does it only carry rugby fans?

[ttmaggebo]

now this will be awesome to ride in provided the bloody americans dont shoot it down thinking its a spy plane lol

[Karl Griffiths]

Awesome paint schemes pat on the back to the decision maker I've flown in the all black livery planes quite a lot even the ATR 72 air New Zealand must be a awesome company to work for if this is how they represent themselves .

[Smoznizjev]

Normally the planes exit the building at the end. This one came out at the side. The building in case, in Toulouse, France, was not originally built for the A320 assembly: it was built for the production of Concorde! The other A320 family production lines (2 in Hamburg and 1 in Tianjin) were specifically built to assemble the A320 family, and so no lifting of the nose is needed.

[M1LS572]

When will it arrive? And will you also operate the A320 NEO sooner or later?

[zeeman707]

heheheh ka-boom

[theshortgenius]

It gained a nose cone during taxiing?

[ttmaggebo]

Your dead right, The A320 doesn't respond to your commands or give you any sort of feel for what your doing. A relative of mine who is a AIR NZ pilot both domestic and international said he much preferred the Boeing as the Airbus felt wobbly.

[wookiey52]

Two of the biggest mistakes Air NZ made, Not painting all the planes in this scheme, and replacing the Capable, trusty, and easy to put back in the air 737, with the A320.

[wookiey52]

Actually it would have to be the worst plane in the ANZ fleet on a turbulent day. The B737's are by far much more capable in our lovely weather we have.

[99colinmc]

is this plane real

[jimmyjpeo]

Yeah , Besides now, we produced the 300ER version, although id prefer it on an A330 over A320