A multi-engine, instrument rated pilot, James Wynbrandt has been an AIN and Business Jet Traveler contributor since 2003. His in-depth reporting and insightful features have won more than a dozen editorial honors, including two National Business Aviation Association Gold Wing Awards (2019; 2021), and his articles have also appeared in the New York Times, Barron’s, Fortune, Forbes, and Smithsonian Air &amp; Space. He has flown his Mooney M20K 252 on assignments throughout North and Central America and the Caribbean. Wynbrandt is also the author of Flying High (Wiley &amp; Sons), a biography of Jet Blue founder David Neeleman, as well as histories, references works, and books on a variety of other topics from major publishers. He lives in New York City.

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Happy Design Studio CEO Didier Wolff has found inspiration in the Airbus Corporate Jets ACJ&nbsp;TwoTwenty, newest member of the ACJ family, and is showing his paint scheme concept this week at EBACE 2022&nbsp;while meeting with clients about upcoming projects. He&nbsp;has been designing luxury aircraft livery for more than a decade, ranging from business jets and airliners to helicopters.

 


What drew&nbsp;him to the ACJ TwoTwenty?&nbsp;“Initially the shape of the aircraft,” Wolff said. “The nature of the shape all around the cockpit; I look at an aircraft from the left to the right, and the story begins on the left, finishing to the right on the tail. That’s how I read an aircraft.”

 


Happy Design’s resulting TwoTwenty livery concept is created around four powerful diagonal black lines emanating from a black shape outlining the cockpit from the front, and resting firmly like a frame on the front curve of the aircraft’s belly fairing. “It gives all the energy to the aircraft,” he said.

 


Wolff has discussed with Airbus Corporate Jets&nbsp;making his design concept available to TwoTwenty customers.&nbsp;“This is a starting point,” the Strasbourg, France-based artist said. “If one customer recognizes himself through my design proposal, we can adapt that to their aircraft.”

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