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Re: A Trident for the office!

Posted: 06 Oct 2008, 13:59
by Garry Russell
Thanks for that link

Both ex Channel Air ways 1E's went to BEA Channel Islands and that was at the time of the Flying Jack........never called Speedjack btw :o

Garry

Re: A Trident for the office!

Posted: 06 Oct 2008, 14:14
by clavel9
Garry Russell wrote:Thanks for that link

Flying Jack........never called Speedjack btw :o

Garry
OOPS!

My mistake. Must try harder.

B.

Re: A Trident for the office!

Posted: 06 Oct 2008, 15:14
by Garry Russell
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Just my fight agains these latter day misnamings ;-)

Flying Jack was it's official name and was symbolic of Britain and flying......speed never came into it , just a part of the Jack looking like an aeroplane :)

Gary

Re: A Trident for the office!

Posted: 06 Oct 2008, 15:33
by DaveB
...and, as per previous notes, it's wearing titles in Sans Serif as befitting BEA FJ ;-) What a great livery FJ was :rock:

ATB

DaveB :tab:

Re: A Trident for the office!

Posted: 06 Oct 2008, 16:09
by Garry Russell
Very much so Dave :)

A shame it faded so quick but when new the livery was very good indeed :dancer:

Even with the all green tail it did not look too heavy at all and even though clearly a Trident livery it adapted to all the types well :tab:

Garry

Re: A Trident for the office!

Posted: 06 Oct 2008, 16:27
by clavel9
Seconded with bells on.

Red Square and Flying Jack ( :) ) remain classic examples of the heyday of British corporate identity design. BA Negus scheme wasn't as clean but still holds up well. Landor a mess and horribly dated, IMHO.

Re: A Trident for the office!

Posted: 06 Oct 2008, 16:36
by Garry Russell
I quite liked the negus BA lvery but the Landor was drab....much liked now but only because people seem to think it was white :lol:

The dull pearl grey used to lighten a lot on pics but in reality it was very depressing.

Even the blue on Landor was midnight rather the the warmer BOAC blue on negus.in fact a lot of paints get done the same for both with only the titles and tail changing which is very wrong :@

A bit of trivia...........G-AVFG was the only Trident to wear all the liveries worn during the Tridents use by BEA/BA.......including time in use as a ground trainer after the flying was finished.

Garry

Re: A Trident for the office!

Posted: 06 Oct 2008, 17:03
by DaveB
Good one Garry :thumbsup:

Incidentally.. FJ is 40years old this year (Aug 68)!! :o

ATB

DaveB :tab:

Re: A Trident for the office!

Posted: 06 Oct 2008, 17:25
by petermcleland
Garry Russell wrote:A bit of trivia...........G-AVFG was the only Trident to wear all the liveries worn during the Tridents use by BEA/BA.......including time in use as a ground trainer after the flying was finished.
Strangely Garry, I seem to have a flight deck picture of G-AVFG:-

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Re: A Trident for the office!

Posted: 06 Oct 2008, 17:29
by Garry Russell
Cheers Peter

Did you have much time on the Ones and Twos??

Garry