Blast from the Past: Cathay Pacific 747 Cardboard Model Plane / Glider

When doing some long overdue cleaning of one of our bookshelves yesterday, I ran into the following fun little guy:

IIRC, it's a Cathay Pacific 747 cardboard plane model from a Meadow Fresh milk-carton promotion here in NZ. It would have been from the mid-late 90's (as it uses the "brush tick" tail).

(At least that's what I think it's from! I could be wrong, with it potentially having come from an in-flight activities pack for kids instead, since I do have a few of those... somewhere...)

 

Now that I've rescued it from its dusty prison in perjury, I shall be moving this to live more comfortably with my "old livery" 1:200 diecast model that I got last year...

This one was high on my shopping-list when I first discovered the world of diecast plane models, as I still have vivid memories of flying on these as a kid on my first long-haul / overseas flights to/from Kai Tak.

 

Well, to be precise, I flew 3 flights on these, and one a Cathay jet with the new livery above. (That new livery one was also memorable, as that happened back in '96, on a rainy night. We had to be bussed out to the plane, so they gave us clear plastic ponchos for getting out there)

 

Things I remember about these old-livery jets:

  1)  Seeing that green and white striped tail at the gate before boarding (with the lounges at both Auckland and Kai Tak having "red + black" patterned carpet IIRC - or if not quite red, it was a like a burgundy).  IIRC, the green was a slightly lighter / brighter shade of green though.

  2) They'd screen in-flight movies in the center-block, by projecting the movie onto the bulkhead using a large ceiling-mounted projector that consisted of 3 large (palm-sized) projector lenses: One Red, One Green, One Blue.