A Trident for the office!

[petermcleland]

Oh dear!...This one seems to have serifs as well:-



no wonder people have trouble getting it right :o

[DaveB]

Hi Peter

No.. those are all correct for interim and the later red tail Red Square and Flying Jack all had all had Sans Serif.. BA all flavours went to Serif which matched the British/British Airways titles. ZM is FJ with BA titles.. basically, BEA has been painted out on the fuse and British Airways titles added. Next time it went into the paintshop.. it would have come out with a serif Trident three and BA red tail BEA = Sans Serif.. BEA/BA interim = (whatever, whenever).. BA = Serif ;-) As Garry mentioned, the only oddity I know of is the 1C which wore Serif Trident.

ATB

DaveB :tab:

[petermcleland]

Thanks Dave...It's good to know that somebody knows how it should be

[clavel9]

As another Mac/X-Plane flyer, I'm putting together a 1-11. Here's how it stands:

http://tinyurl.com/4jwk95

If anyone's interested, PM me. I'm always interested in feedback and while this is about six weeks from being finished it's good enough for "pre-beta" testing.

Brendan.

[clavel9]

Hi Peter

The titles were standard font across the fleet the only variation being the 1C fleet were just 'Trident'

No sure about the two 1E's have have a pic somewhere

It was different on BA.....we are just on BEA here so youre were OK first time.

Garry

I saw a picture a while back which showed "Trident One-E". It might take a while to dig out as I think it was from a magazine from the early-70's. I actually thought it was only a single 1E that made it to BEA colours.

Brendan.

[Garry Russell]

I have a couple of pic buried somewhere and couldn't remember what it was....that sounds about right

BEA Channel Islands had two Trident 1E without the suffix operating Birmingham-Paris

All I know is they had two and have known that since the time it happenend, but until recently I didn't even know how either were painted until I saw pics so I can't say if both were painted or not and didn't say they both had been :think: .


Garry

[DaveB]

Yo-de-do..

Yup.. it seems the 1's were neither here nor there. Initially, none of them had Trident on the nacelle by the looks of things. I have a shot of PD doing testing for the 1E's highlift leading edge wearing the wording but others before and after not wearing anything. The best I can suggest is that it was introduced in around 1965

ATB

DaveB :tab:

[Garry Russell]

Yes Dave

The Trident title was introduced at about the time the APU was shifted.

Garry

[clavel9]

I have a couple of pic buried somewhere and couldn't remember what it was....that sounds about right

BEA Channel Islands had two Trident 1E without the suffix operating Birmingham-Paris

All I know is they had two and have known that since the time it happenend, but until recently I didn't even know how either were painted until I saw pics so I can't say if both were painted or not and didn't say they both had been :think: .


Garry

Certainly Channel Airways had two 1E's but I think one went to Northeast and the other to BEA Channel Islands Airways Div after Channel went bust. (I'm therefore assuming it was the latter operated in the BEA speed-jack scheme.) The Northeast Tridents would later have operated in hybrid NE-BA colours before adopting the full BA Negus livery some time in 1974. But I'm thinking off the top of my head here so I'll have to look it up at the weekend!

Brendan.

[clavel9]

A quick search through this up:

http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1110656/