For weeks, plane dorks have been guessing what made N945WN special. There were rumors, and many tried to figure out what Southwest had up its sleeve. Many wondered if a new state livery was coming, and those who guessed that were correct – the new 737-700 has been painted as Florida One, joining the rest of Southwest’s special fleet.
Southwest unveiled a cool video showing the aircraft being manufactured and painted. But there are a bunch of things wrong with the video…so that means its time for another geek test! 
As always, leave your answers/guesses in the comments!
The aircraft shown being assembled has 2 o/wings each side… (I’m guessing 738) but the one being painted only has one o/wing on each side… B737-700???
My guess is the types being assembled aren’t SWAs planes???
Or, not that particular aircraft that they painted.
Ship 1948 – the one shown during assembly – is a 737-800 and ship 1928 (I think – hard to read the MSN as they back it into the paint bay) is a 737-700 and the plane they actually painted.
Looks like they used a relatively generic 737 assembly video for the first half and it is not the exact plane.
Still a cool video, though.
Besides the generic video,
the State of florida’s emblem/seal is painted with the woman’s head facing the correct direction (according to how the Florida flag would fly) on the left side (number 1 engine side) of the plane. If you look closely the head of the woman faces a different direction on the right side of the plane (number 2 engine side of the plane).
John – interesting. Though, the way I look at it – the woman’s head faces the tail on both sides of the fuse – so wouldn’t that be fine?
Considering the fact that the seal is actually on Florida’s flag I’d say they should be consistent between the flag and the plane. I don’t know Florida’s flag well enough to know what the head does on the reverse side, but it sounds like they may have gotten it wrong on the plane.
But from a practical standpoint, I agree, Dan, that there wouldn’t be anything wrong with having them both look at the tail.
Ah, I think you guys are right! http://bit.ly/9MgOuu