Floating Some Concepts for Airplane Images

Question from March 9:

A number of airlines are decorating the tails of their airplanes. What designs do you suggest they use?

Scenes from television westerns. Aren’t the airlines trying to pack us into planes as if we were cattle?

--RAYMOND BATES, Marina del Rey

Airline decorations should reflect their names: Northwest, a weather vane; American, Lady Liberty; Delta, abstractions of the Greek fourth letter; Virgin, vari-colored chastity belts; United, a wedding cake.

--RALPH BRIEN, Los Angeles

Borrow the characters from Charles Schulz’s Peanuts comic in honor of the only really tasty airline food.

--WALT HOPMANS, Santa Barbara

I would like American Airlines to paint a 747 like a giant bald eagle for the millennium--body, tail, wings and all. Cool!

--KYLE TAYLOR, Glendale

Since Russia had a role in the evolution of ballet, Aeroflot Airlines should have a likeness of every ballet stud muffin on each of its planes, and each should be named after them--Sasha, Rudi, Misha.

--GRACE E. HAMPTON, Burbank

Absolutely every airline should have a sardine as a mascot. A newly opened can of sardines would be a fitting decoration--a truthful decoration.

--DON MADDOX, Tarzana

I would like to see the inception of “Right Wing Air” decorated with Ronald Reagan on horseback, Dan Quayle peeling potatoes and Ken Starr looking through binoculars.

--WAYNE E. SCOTT, Camarillo

Question for March 16:

In honor of the Oscars, Cha Cha Cha restaurant in Encino is naming its dinner offerings after best picture nominees (see story, this page). What other movies or television shows should be turned into meals, and what should they include?

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