Here is a topic that has been the subject of many (on-line) discussions among Air Canada livery enthusiasts...including both the Canadians and non-Canadians...🙂...e.g., someone says, "I cannot stand the Toothpaste Blue..." or another, at the opposite end of the opinion spectrum, says, "I actually quite prefer this color..." and so on...Oh well...one thing is clear, we (aviation) fans of a certain airline livery (no matter whether of our own nation or another and whether the livery is 10 years old or 50 years old) ...surely have our (unique) preferences (i.e., personal likes and dislikes...so to speak) whenever a new or/and revised livery is introduced. Nonetheless, the new livery moves on, dictated by the principles of the respective corporate identity and other significant (business) factors such as "branding" and "fashion" etc... Eventually, we have no choice but to get used to the new livery...sometimes maybe grudgingly...🙂...until the livery changes colors again...

While I was recently exploring the Varig 767 (if you wish, please see my earlier 767 post), I recalled that though I'm rather fond of the 767, here is a plane, I've actually travelled on, just once, to the best of my memory....(as opposed to e.g. the 757, I distinctly recall many flights on AA 757s; while noting also that both 757 and 767 were introduced into service almost at the same time, and remained contemporaries for nearly 25 years...). Due to some reasons, I never got to fly transoceanic on a 767, and the only (short) B767 flight of mine, had occurred with Air Canada, from Toronto to Montreal, that too fortuitously due to a substitution of a/c arising from equipment malfunction with the a/c of the originally scheduled airline. It was possible due to both airlines being member of the The Star Alliance. You'll notice this Star Alliance logo on both sides of the cockpit windows of all the Air Canada airplanes, I've featured in my posts, here. Anyway, the livery of that Air Canada 767, I flew on, was the so-called "Toothpaste Blue"...🙂... (subject livery of my 2 posts) ... 

The Toothpaste livery or more formally known as Air Canada’s "Old" livery is the 2nd most recent livery. Air Canada traces its historic roots back to April 1937 with the formation of Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA). With over 85 years of history, and (officially) renamed Air Canada in 1965, the airline has naturally gone through several livery revisions. Around 2004, after doing away with the classic cheatline schemes that we've come to love in the even "older" Air Canada liveries, Air Canada, till about 2016, would go with a light turquoise fuselage color aka: the Toothpaste Blue livery. With this look, the graphic (iconic) maple leaf on the tail would stand out more strikingly, but without the circular (roundel) outline. On the fuselage, the wordmarks, making the words "Air Canada," as well as the other (maple-leaf) roundel, got larger and thicker. The roundel on the fuselage appeared above the window line. The aircraft's engines would also take the same (turquoise) color as the fuselage. 

The "turquoise" is kind of a delicate "bluish-green" color (or is it "greenish-blue"?), based on the mineral (gemstone) of the same name. To be precise, "turquoise" color actually comes with many gradations (Light turquoise, Turquoise blue, Medium turquoise, Dark turquoise, Bright turquoise etc.), and the Air Canada Toothpaste livery belongs to the very first tone i.e., "Light turquoise".

Please find, here, in my 2 Part POSTs, 3 sets of images of Air Canada (Toothpaste) Boeings: First, in this Part I, 10 pictures (shots #1-#10) of a 767-300 (Reg. C-GHPF) on take-off, and then also 10 pictures (shots #11-#20) of a 777-200LR (Reg. C-FIUA) on climb-out. In the below pictures, visually speaking, the 767/777 might look similar to the layman (yours truly included), but a couple of distinguishing features of the 777 are its enormous engines and the much larger wingspans (see shots below). And finally in my Part II, you'll find a set of images of the Air Canada Boeing 787-8, also in the phase of lifting off and climbing to cruise...

Hope you enjoy this collection of Air Canada (Boeing) 767/777 pictures, in the "turquoise" colored livery. Please also see my Part II for the "turquoise" colored Air Canada 787...

Thanks for your interest and good flying...!!

Very nice set of shots! 😉 

Fine set of the "Toothpaste" livery..🤗

cheers 😉

Nice shots P.  I'll never understand why this is even an issue with some people.  

Will, Todd, pmplayer, and Jack: Many thanks...!!

 

10 minutes ago, Jack_Sawyer said:

Nice shots P.  I'll never understand why this is even an issue with some people.  

The livery looks very elegant, Jack, from my perspective....🙂...but if you read the Forums...there have been some interesting remarks...🙂... when it was first introduced...Oh well...life moves on and the livery moved on...

 

 

Just now, P_7878 said:

Will, Todd, pmplayer, and Jack: Many thanks...!!

 

The livery looks very elegant, Jack, from my perspective....🙂...but if you read the Forums...there have been some interesting remarks...🙂... when it was first introduced...Oh well...life moves on and the livery moved on...

 

 

I agree but I think all liveries are elegant.  Cheers.