Santa's Freight
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Dasher-8 #2
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Go Australia
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Minyma Kutjara Tjukurpa
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The sixth aborigene livery for Qantas is also the result of partnership with Balarinji Design Studios; the brand new aircraft was delivered to National Jet Systems to be operated for QantasLink on December 16, 2023. The design is based on a 2018 200 x 243.5 cm artwork by renowned artist Maringka Baker from the Pitjantjatjara tribe established in the Central Australian desert (the author lives in the remote community of Kanpi in far north west South Australia).
Artwork © Maringka Baker, Art Gallery of NSW
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Dasher-8 #1
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Yes23
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Pride is in the air
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Qantas 100
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In late 2019 Qantas unveiled a special livery in anticipation of its 100th anniversary celebrations. The red wave is accompanied by a the Qantas logos over the course of the times. QANTAS, for Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services, was founded in Queensland on November 20, 1920.
This airframe was delivered to Qantas via London and it performed one of three ultra-long-haul route proving flights, linking London Heathrow to Sydney in a bit more than 19 hours with 39 passengers onboard. The flight mirrored the one performed by the airline's very first 747-400 VH-OJA thirty years earlier (see here the "We Go Further" entry).
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Go Wallabies #6
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Australia Post
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Yam Dreaming
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The fifth aborigene livery for Qantas was also adapted by Balarinji Design Studios, this time from 1991 artwork ‘Yam Dreaming’ painted by late artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye, one of the most prominent and successful artists in the history of contemporary indigenous Australian art.
Additional details from Balarinji and the Campbelltown City Council Permanent Collection show that Emily Kngwarreye’s name Kame means seed of the yam, or wild potato, and is an ancestral name which identifies the artist with her country Alhalkere. A piercing in her nose where the yam seed was carried embodies her identification with her ancestor of the same name, Alhalkere.
While the maze of lines represent the arterial roots of the yam growing beneath the ground, they also reflect a similar pattern of crazed lines above the ground, which indicates the maturity of the edible yam tuber. It is along these cracks that one digs to obtain the matured yam, a staple food source in the desert. The yam is also culturally very significant and in this painting the life force of nature and ancestral power is evoked. Over the summer of 1990-1991 Emily produced her first paintings on canvas. This style became her signature style. Every painting of Emily’s contains reference to her multiple Dreamings.
Artwork © Campbelltown City Council Permanent Collection
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High-speed Wi-Fi on board
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Sydney Mardi Gras
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Qantas and Fitzy & Wippa
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Spirit of the Australian Team #2
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Star Track
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