Your guide to the tails of British Airways' 'World Images' rebranding

With it being a quarter of a century since British Airways unveiled the first of a planned 50 ‘World Images’ across the tailfins of its fleet, Martin Needham compiles a snapshot of 34 different designs to grace an aircraft.

 

1 • Animals and Trees; Botswana

British Airways
ALL PICS RICHARD VANDERVORD EXCEPT WHERE NOTED

A painting of wild jackals resting under a tree by an oasis in the Kalahari Desert painted by Cgoise, an artist of the Ncoakhoe tribe. One of the first schemes to be unveiled and widely used throughout the fleet.

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