In article <1993Jan28.155316.22690@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> ncole@nyx.cs.du.edu (Noah Cole) writes:
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>One thing I did see in fall 1990 was an all white TWA 747 and l1011 (should be
>L1011) at JFK. I was flying on TWA from JFK to CDG (New York to Paris for
>those of you illerate in codes) in a "nrormal 747" with red and write paint.
>On both sides of me though, the planes were all white. They had small (for an
>aircraft) TWA ensignas on the tail, under the cockpit windows, and on each
>wing. Asside from this, the plane was all whte. This plane was not being
>serviced or anything, it was going to Oslo and Copenhagen. The L10 was going toMadrid. It was very interesting.. Anyone have any information. The only thing
>I could think of was that those were two planes TWA was selling r possibly HAD
>sold but they were making their finalk flights so they had "temporary" flights.
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>-Noah Cole
During Desert Storm, the USAF required the US flag carriers who
receive subsidies under the Civil Reserve Air Fleet (CRAF) to provide
the airlift capability needed to move the thousands of troops to
Saudia Arabia. While most of the carriers did not modify their
aircraft paint jobs, TWA decided to paint out anything that readily
identified their aircraft.
Since the CRAF call-up was for specific flights on specific days, TWA
would cancel certain scheduled flights so that they could use the
plane(s) for CRAF missions. It would appear that TWA sanitized a
number of planes and used the sanitized planes on their scheduled runs
when the USAF didn't need the planes for Desert Storm runs.
I saw a sanitized TWA 747 landing at Honolulu in August, 1990. After it
touched down, it taxied over to Hickham AFB (Hickham and HNL share the
runways). The reason it went to Hickham was that there were Marines
from Kaneohe Marine Corps Air Station being sent to Saudi and Hickham
was the departure point. Also, the previous day's TWA HNL-STL flight
