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Southwest Airlines is "honoring" Illinois with an eyeball-rapingly hideous plane called "Illinois One." It's meant to resemble the Illinois state flag.
If only they had used the Chicago flag for inspiration instead.
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That's like honoring someone by dumping a bucket of sh*t on his head.
The descriptor of "eyeball-rapingly" made me shudder almost as much as the plane did. That's hilarious. It takes a certain flavor of genius to create such a term.
That fucking plane's like a visual version of my nationalism!
ewww...it looks like the mexican flag or a mexican futbol team emblem.
I bet blago buys this thing with state money and uses it as his own personal airforce 1
the sun is shining out of the eagles ass.
how fitting.
I don't mind it so much. Is that bad? If they took off the ugly Southwest Tail colors I think I might say that I like it.
I think its cool.
I'm also legally blind.
I think we all just need to come to terms with the fact that our state flag sucks...
The city of Chicag flag would have made for a much cooler plane indeed.
Perhaps we should design a new flag for the state, so that Southwest could have a better design on its plane?
Relax everyone...it's not that ugly and it's only an airplane, anyway!
I think it's bad-ass and terrifying.
If it's fast or a gun, a picture of an eagle only takes it up a notch in kick-ass-ness.
(By "gun", I mean both the firearm and biceps)
i think it's a nice way for southwest to pay tribute to the state that is home to it's 2nd largest hub.
remember, it's an artist's rendering of the state flag.
the sun is shining out of the eagles ass.
Actually, it looks like the eagle is pooping a sun. Yikes.
What?
State flags as a rule of thumb suck.
There are a ton (Virginia, Nebraska, New York, Michigan, the list goes on) that are just some seal on a blue field. Bonus points if you plaster your own state's name under it just so people can tell them all apart.
Maryland, Ohio, New Mexico, and Arizona are the only ones to really "think outside the box".
And extra shame gets heaped upon Georgia. From 2001-2003 they had a blue field, a state seal, and a literal list of all the flags that have flown over Georgia placed on the bottom in some horrible graphic nightmare. It was extra retarded.
/vexillogist
Looks like something a 10 year old would design.
"See! SEE! It has wings, LIKE AN EAGLE! CAUSE IT'S AWESOME! LIKE an EAGLE!" (Breathless, candy-flavored panting)
The Illinois flag should be a silhouette of two fat men's hands with big pinky rings passing cash between them.
Chicago/IL state motto
Ubi Est Mea
"Where's mine?"
Bless ya Mike
They should just make it the Chicago flag. Not only would it look WAY cooler, but it's not like Southwest flies anywhere else in IL anyway.
well, that's just the thing. if it were just a chicago flag, it would give springfield even MORE of a reason to screw over the RTA some time soon. don't want the rest of IL to get too mad about us all thinking it's all about us, you know.... they're trying to honor ILLINOIS, people!!
matty made a funny! good stuff.
that plane looks awesome. if southwest decorated all their planes (and let their pilots do loops), i'd stop flying united entirely.