Airline tail art: More winged wonders!

Last week I bought you the second instalment in my new series, showcasing some of the most interesting, beautiful and impressive examples of airline tail art from around the world.

Airlines often use birds or mythical creatures as inspiration for their logos, like Iran Air’s Homa, a griffin from Persian mythology.

Here is part two of “the fauna liveries”; the airlines that have flying fauna painted on their tails.

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  Turkish Airlines' winged bird in flight also resembles the crescent of the Turkish flag

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  Chengdu-based Sichuan Airlines' logo features a bird flying over a canyon, symbolising the mountainous terrain of the Chinese province of Sichuan.

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  Iran Air's mythical Persian griffin, the Homa

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  Papua New Guinea's national airline Air Niugini features the national bird, the Bird of Paradise

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  A bird flies across the golden sun of the now-defunct Hellenic Imperial Airways

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  Ryanair's flying angel is also a golden harp

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  Malaysia Airlines' logo is a stylised "moon kite", while Cathay Pacific's is a calligraphic brushstroke, designed to look like a bird's wing

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  China Eastern's old logo; a bird in flight

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  The Singapore Airlines bird is inspired by a keris, a Southeast Asia dagger from featured in the region's myth and folklore.

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  SilkAir of Singapore features a seagull

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  EgyptAir's tail features a Horus, a sky deity from ancient Egyptian mythology

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  Gulf Air, the national carrier of Bahrain, flies with a golden falcon

Which one is your favourite? Comment below!