{"id":5178,"date":"2013-11-29T20:04:55","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T09:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/?p=5178"},"modified":"2013-11-29T20:04:55","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T09:04:55","slug":"mendoowoorrji-flies-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/mendoowoorrji-flies-high\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Mendoowoorrji\u2019 flies high"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Mendoowoorrji-air-to-air-6_MR1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-5180\" alt=\"The latest aircraft in Qantas\u2019 Indigenous Flying Art series has touched down in Sydney, showing its new Aboriginal inspired livery design.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Mendoowoorrji-air-to-air-6_MR1-1024x681.jpg\" width=\"614\" height=\"409\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The latest aircraft in the Qantas Indigenous Flying Art Series has touched down in Sydney with traditional Aboriginal artwork paying homage to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture \u2013 the oldest continuing culture on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The brand new, multi-billion dollar 737-800, dubbed \u2018Mendoowoorrji\u2019, was inspired by the 2005 artwork \u2018Medicine Pocket\u2019 by the late artist and founder of the Warmun art movement, Paddy Bedford, aka Goowoomji.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft was aptly named after Paddy\u2019s mother\u2019s country in the East Kimberley region of Western Australia and captures the beautiful landscape\u2019s essence.<\/p>\n<p>This is the fourth aircraft in the Qantas Flying Art Series and marks yet another successful collaboration spanning two decades between Qantas and Australia\u2019s leading Indigenous art, strategy and communications company, Balarinji.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mailsend.dmcweb.com.au\/t\/r-l-ndddyg-trbldftj-x\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can follow the plane here . . . <a title=\"Follow Mendoowoorrji in flight\" href=\"http:\/\/www.qantas.com.au\/travel\/airlines\/flyingart\/global\/en\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.qantas.com.au\/travel\/airlines\/flyingart\/global\/en<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The latest aircraft in the Qantas Indigenous Flying Art Series has touched down in Sydney with traditional Aboriginal artwork paying homage to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture \u2013 the oldest continuing culture on Earth. The brand new, multi-billion dollar 737-800, dubbed \u2018Mendoowoorrji\u2019, was inspired by the 2005 artwork \u2018Medicine Pocket\u2019 by the late [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":5180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5182,"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5178\/revisions\/5182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}