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NutLoose
19th Sep 2018, 15:50
Ahhh good old quality contol
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-45572275
https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/660x371/_103491360_cathaypacific_ad6bafee492c988e9fd27177e22720b686b 3f8a4.jpg
And yes, contol was intentional.
Some of the comments read well, "no one gives an F anymore" :)
MichaelKPIT
19th Sep 2018, 15:55
D'you mean "site's" and not "sites?" :ok:
212man
19th Sep 2018, 16:08
D'you mean "site's" and not "sites?" :ok:
Beat me to it!
Davidsoffice
19th Sep 2018, 16:10
Navigational query.....
Where's the f in Pacific?
Hong Kong Dave
19th Sep 2018, 16:14
All that cost-cutting catches up with you in the end.
gearlever
19th Sep 2018, 16:25
Airplane too short?
NutLoose
19th Sep 2018, 16:41
I never put apostrophes in thread titles as some site's do not allow them, so I sadly tend apply the rule carte blanche. I could have said it was another go at the spelling police, but it isn't.
jolihokistix
19th Sep 2018, 16:43
Reminds me of the web address for britis hairways.
JW411
19th Sep 2018, 16:51
You mean "some sites" (as in the plural) do not allow them?
MichaelKPIT
19th Sep 2018, 17:10
You mean "some sites" (as in the plural) do not allow them?
Aaaand you beat me! ;-)
AviatorDave
19th Sep 2018, 17:17
Seriously - how could work like this ever leave the paint shop?
I have no clue what technology is used to paint aircraft nowadays, maybe its all done by robots that don‘t check their work and someone made a typo during programming. Or the plane was painted by illiterates.
To me, it seems somewhat too obvious to be a genuine mistake.
Maybe a little marketing gimmick?
boaclhryul
19th Sep 2018, 18:10
Simple explanation - someone said to the painter, "F off". And Bob's yer uncle.
spannersatcx
19th Sep 2018, 18:25
The problem started earlier I think, the gap between the Y and P is too large!
https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1784x1053/0n7a5832a_380c5bc1c83215ee8c1396f4b9652d31a281ce04.jpg
wideman
19th Sep 2018, 18:51
Only business class and economy, so no F.
tremblerman
19th Sep 2018, 19:05
Remember when Dan Air paid a rather expensive sign writer when one of there own staff could have done it for half the cost.
Ended up with Dan Air Lodon on the 1-11.
jack11111
19th Sep 2018, 19:27
From the photos in the BBC story, the airline's first instinct is to cover-up the mistake, just as is done with accident aircraft.
ozziekiwi
19th Sep 2018, 20:04
Remember when Dan Air paid a rather expensive sign writer when one of there own staff could have done it for half the cost.
Ended up with Dan Air Lodon on the 1-11.
Seeing that we are talking spelling police it's ''their'' and not 'there' in that context
clareprop
19th Sep 2018, 20:32
Seeing that we are talking spelling police it's ''their'' and not 'there' in that context
I think it should be 'when one of its own staff...'.
SysDude
19th Sep 2018, 21:01
"Simple explanation - someone said to the painter, "F off". And Bob's yer uncle."
Best one!
Smalahove
19th Sep 2018, 21:18
I think it should be 'when one of its own staff...'.You are correct, it's its, not it's. As Frank Zappa said, the crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe.
golfyankeesierra
19th Sep 2018, 21:18
What was that livery that had a letter on one of the doors. So that when the door was opened the brand got a whole different meaning?
pilotmike
19th Sep 2018, 21:34
... so I sadly tend apply the rule carte blanche.
Sadly that doesn't make any sense.
nevillestyke
19th Sep 2018, 21:38
Perhaps they thought that they could burn less fuel and cut down on airframe hours, if there was no F in Pacific?
Chu Chu
19th Sep 2018, 22:16
Perhaps they thought that they could burn less fuel and cut down on airframe hours, if there was no F in Pacific?
That would certainly bring Hong Kong and LA closer ;)
The quality control was too lose. That is how they managed to loose the "F" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Capn Bloggs
20th Sep 2018, 01:17
The quality control was too lose.
Maybe it was the French...
AnotherRedWineThanks
20th Sep 2018, 01:23
What was that livery that had a letter on one of the doors. So that when the door was opened the brand got a whole different meaning?
An Australian TV show called 'A Current Affair' had that problem, according to a photo I've seen.
McHover
20th Sep 2018, 01:29
Seems like they're not the only department at Cathay that resembles the Muppet Show these days. This is on the Fragrant Harbour (Hong Kong) page...
The companys new route to Washington DC has created a political nightmare.
The US agency tasked with marketing the new route has used pictures of Shanghai instead of Hong Kong in their adverts.
The Commercial Department in HKG is back peddling as quickly as possible. But what a f***k up.
chuboy
20th Sep 2018, 05:26
The problem started earlier I think, the gap between the Y and P is too large!
https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1784x1053/0n7a5832a_380c5bc1c83215ee8c1396f4b9652d31a281ce04.jpg
It looks like the words Cathay and Pacific were stencilled independently, with "Pacific" being stencilled from C backwards. If the painters forgot the F that would explain the misspelling and the large space between the two words.
Bull at a Gate
20th Sep 2018, 05:30
That should be “company’s” unitedabx.
What happens when you criticise spelling? Everyone starts checking your spelling, along with your grammar and punctuation.
And “peddling” is wrong too.
paulc
20th Sep 2018, 06:01
golfyankeesierra, I think it was the old airbus multi-coloured strip house colour scheme which when a rear door was left open made a different word
clareprop
20th Sep 2018, 08:36
You are correct, it's its, not it's.
I know. I was being polite and it was 'its' not 'their' rather than 'its' not 'it's'. :p
aloominumtoob
20th Sep 2018, 08:40
Airplane too short?
Now if it was an aeroplane it wouldn't be too short!
NutLoose
20th Sep 2018, 09:23
The first RAF VC10 to be repainted by an outside contractor, ( Luton I think ) had the fin flash reversed so it was in effect the French Airfarce one. It took a while for everyone to realise, as people could see something was wrong with the scheme, but couldn't quite figure out what it was. It was back at Brize for a while before it was noticed.
meleagertoo
20th Sep 2018, 11:21
It's probably easy enough for a painter immersed in the job to simply call for the next stencil and get on with it without paying attention to what is actually being applied. And if the airframe is due in service hours later there is no time to fix it.
I am intrigued though that one is deemed spelling "police" to flag up such a blatant error. In the first instance it is clearly a mere typo, not a spelling error at all and even if it were spelling it is hardly "police" action to point out something so ridiculously blatant?
DaveReidUK
20th Sep 2018, 12:41
The first RAF VC10 to be repainted by an outside contractor, ( Luton I think ) had the fin flash reversed so it was in effect the French Airfarce one.
BA (may even have been BEA in those days) painted a few RAF VC-10s (in a rather attractive orange-peel finish, IIRC). :O
TylerMonkey
20th Sep 2018, 14:25
The quality control was too lose. That is how they managed to loose the "F" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
control was too LOOSE . They managed to LOSE the F ....... methinks.
tdracer
20th Sep 2018, 17:52
What was that livery that had a letter on one of the doors. So that when the door was opened the brand got a whole different meaning?
Probably not what you're think of, but back in the late 1970's (when I was a fresh faced new-hire at Boeing), Braniff had ordered up a bunch of 727s. The had an interesting paint scheme known as "Flying Colors". The aircraft was painted one uniform color - although each aircraft was a different color (some of them rather garish) - and along the side of the center inlet it said in rather large letters "Flying Colors".
There was an access panel which matched up with the 'l' in colors - which was routinely left off so the had a bunch of "Flying Coors" 727s on the Renton flight line (Coors being a popular brand of beer in the US - sometimes compared with making love in a canoe).
MichaelKPIT
20th Sep 2018, 18:17
What was that livery that had a letter on one of the doors. So that when the door was opened the brand got a whole different meaning?
It was Starbucks. But if you Google "starbucks van with door open" and click on the "images" link you'll find a whole bunch of others too!
https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/344x277/starbucks_07560d9f17d5e8e1a56f8eafcaca893b4d409bcf.jpg
chuboy
20th Sep 2018, 22:31
What was that livery that had a letter on one of the doors. So that when the door was opened the brand got a whole different meaning?
The old Airbus livery on the A340!
https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/600x448/chova_aveaah0ws_8f706959b00dcdb107ee22c66a689c61d63d4f8a.jpg
TyreMonkey. I added a lot of explanation marks at the end of my message to show that I was being sarcastic. How many times on Pprune do you see "loose" and "lose" used incorrectly?
Bull at a Gate
21st Sep 2018, 01:58
T21 - I think we realised that. Well, most of us anyway.
Yes. Most people. But not TyreMonkey obviously.
wetbehindear
21st Sep 2018, 03:20
Anyone to remember Lufhansa Air Ground Services vans/trucks gold letters on deep blue which begs the question; "Does it allways?"
I believe they dopped the "A" after someone pointed the obvious.
Timmy Tomkins
21st Sep 2018, 15:50
Navigational query.....
Where's the f in Pacific?
The Efin Pacific can be found just off California and goes all the way to the next bit of land.........
Smalahove
21st Sep 2018, 17:53
The Efin Pacific can be found just off California and goes all the way to the next bit of land............but that's not important right now. ;)