Originally published at: Is this airplane real? | Boing Boing
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Seems apropos…
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For those not interested in clicking through all the links, the original pic is here: Airbus A321-271NX - IndiGo | Aviation Photo #5285531 | Airliners.net
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Am I missing something obvious? Why wouldn’t it be real?
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So why go to so much trouble? Is it so simple as advertising better equippage that the company actually has?
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Aircraft nerds spotted discrepancies in the configuration for that specific model.
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I’d guess, as Rob alluded, that it was a mock-up done to try out a new paint scheme for their cargo planes. Maybe it was in a press packet and for some reason the internet is in a tizzy about it.
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Oh, ok thanks. That wasn’t obvious to me from the article 
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There’s no photo shops there 
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There’s a photo outside a shop. I guess that does not count?
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… that’s from flight simulator, and is one of the two A321F indigo has:
Indigo’s fleet is mostly composed of A320 neo, which doesn’t have a cargo configuration (yet), but seems the company is investing heavily on cargo transport using these planes (see photo below). That mockup was probably to announce a specific livery for those cargos?
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It’s nice that each pallet gets an overhead bin for its personal items. 
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Crepes AND Waffles !!! It’s gotta be fake.
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I think because they’d have to pay for the cargo truck logo, get somebody to apply the decal, and then get a photographer.
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