Air New Zealand B777-300ER, ZK-OKP,,,Still In Hobbit Livery

Well the Hobbit Livery lives on, worn by ZK-OKP and when it was last up for maintenance in Singapore, I think it was, it was due for a repaint, but they ran out of time to do  it.

So good opportunity for some more photos of one of the best looking B777-300ER's in my opinion in the world. I actually made a bit of a balls up of some of these take off sequence photo's cutting the tail off in one and almost the nose in another. First 2 shots at least are ok.

ZK-OKP

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Smaug at Sunrise - ZK-OKO

Sorry for not posting many photos lately, been busy with festive season and work etc....

Anyway here is a couple of shots of ZK-OKO, Smaug Livery, arriving into Auckland at sunrise from LAX. I wish these shots were a little bit better actually.

Hope you all enjoyed Christmas and a Happy New Year to Everyone around the world...

Stay Safe.

ZK-OKO

Wing at Sunrise

ZK-OKO - The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

The second aircraft of Air New Zealand's Hobbit themed liveries was reveled today in Auckland.

Sir Peter Jacksons, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, and the fearsome dragon "Smaug" is shown in all its glory on ZK-OKO.

Smaug (the graphic) is 54 meters long and 942 square meters and took 400 man hours to apply to ZK-OKO

So here they are, my first pics of the new and stunning ZK-OKO.

First Flight for "Smaug"
NZ6 02nd Dec 2013

NZ6 and "Smaug's"
First Flight

NZ6