AUTHOR'S NOTE

In presenting Flying Colours, I have

attempted to portray the vast and varied

range of colours to be seen on the world's

aircraft. The majority of the photographs

are of passenger-carrying aircraft which

arrive and depart daily at destinations

around the globe, and were taken by me

using Kodachrome 25 film and selected

from my ever-increasing collection of over

14,000 transparencies.

An airline's corporate image is very

important and vast sums of money are

paid to design studios and agencies by

carriers anxious to keep in step with

modern trends. Styles change very fast

and it is obviously necessary to choose a

livery that will not date too quickly.

A book of this nature cannot be produced

without the help of the authorities, and

due acknowledgement must be made to all

who made the production of Flying

Colours possible. I am extremely grateful

Copyright ~ 1994 by John K. Morton

First published in the UK in 1994

by Airlife Publishing Ltd.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book

is available from the British Library

ISBN 1 85310 417 5

for the assistance given to me by the

Federal Airports' Corporation of Australia,

in particular the staff at Brisbane airport;

Phil Warwick and Barry Barford of Cairns

Port Authority; Colin Jeeves and Jack

Caine at Perth International airport; the

Civil Aviation Administration of Costa

Rica; the Airports Authority of Thailand;

Richard Peacock of the Airport Authority

of Washoe County and last, but by no

means least, my friend of long standing,

Ethel Pattison of Los Angeles

International.

Most airports around the world provide

facilities for the observer and it is hoped

that these arrangements will continue long

into the future.

Your interest in Flying Colours is

appreciated and I trust you will obtain as

much pleasure from looking through the

pages as I had whilst photographing

around the world.

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transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical

including photocopying, recording or by any information storage

and retrieval system, without permission from the Publisher in writing

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