Typeface??
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Typeface??
Well, it IS the Silly Season, so one, apparently, silly question. Does anyone know which typeface was used for the external markings on S&R Whirlwind 10s? - "RAF RESCUE etc.? It's a sort of laterally compressed Sans Serif like the Goudi family but nothing I can find in MS Word quite matches.
Aaaaah - Thorney!
Aaaaah - Thorney!
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I have an RAF painters and finishers manual somewhere on a stick that covers that or the navy scheme and all the markings I think amongst others,
This site is dead so this is the archive, check the font names and google them to download them
https://archive.is/8AFAJ
I have an RAF painters and finishers manual somewhere on a stick that covers that or the navy scheme and all the markings I think amongst others,
This site is dead so this is the archive, check the font names and google them to download them
https://archive.is/8AFAJ
It's not a 'font' as we know it from computers (and printing) - there was a specific style laid down in the various APs, but it wasn't unknown to see variations. I have seen a few people create these as truetype fonts, but few got the exact spacing and stroke correct
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Thank you all. Will PM nutloose.
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Davef68 - precisely ... the Truetype route doesn't do it.
Herod - re. pic, should have pointed out that it wasn't one of mine, but I can't remember the source to credit it. The SECO hut behind the bowser was 'home' for the VERY best part of the overall best part of my time in blue.
It was a hard life, but somebody had to do it!!
Thank you FED - will avoid!
Davef68 - precisely ... the Truetype route doesn't do it.
Herod - re. pic, should have pointed out that it wasn't one of mine, but I can't remember the source to credit it. The SECO hut behind the bowser was 'home' for the VERY best part of the overall best part of my time in blue.
It was a hard life, but somebody had to do it!!
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strange that with the link above, all it was is a link to the site that has gone, failing that you can get RAF fonts here
Military Aircraft Fonts by August Horvath | Aircraft in Focus
Military Aircraft Fonts by August Horvath | Aircraft in Focus
CJ,interesting photo of what I presume to be a single crew - one member in immersion suit,one in standard flying suit,and one in just shirt-sleeves.Was there not a common standard for flying clothing,dependent on weather etc ?
Takes a lot of time and effort to ensure that no two crew members are dressed alike.
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Many thanks, Nutloose, I'll see what that offers.
Ex82watcher - Had to churn the memory cells a bit for that one! It was, unsurprisingly, a posed shot for the Pompey Evening News in '64. They did a centre page spread on the Thorney Flight and we did a 'Scramble' and some wet winching for them. Obviously, we couldn't use the main standby aircraft and crew, so we did it on second standby. 'Sandy' Sanders in the middle. was Flt Cdr and stayed in flying suit for second standby jobs - Office work, air tests etc. The late, much lamented, Jack Canham (the best WinchOp I ever worked with!) was just waiting for the photography to finish so that he could go home for the rest of his 'seconds'. He would certainly have been in a flying suit for the. winching bit. It was summer, so immersion suits were optional for Pilot and Nav. I was still single so no hurry to go anywhere!
Ex82watcher - Had to churn the memory cells a bit for that one! It was, unsurprisingly, a posed shot for the Pompey Evening News in '64. They did a centre page spread on the Thorney Flight and we did a 'Scramble' and some wet winching for them. Obviously, we couldn't use the main standby aircraft and crew, so we did it on second standby. 'Sandy' Sanders in the middle. was Flt Cdr and stayed in flying suit for second standby jobs - Office work, air tests etc. The late, much lamented, Jack Canham (the best WinchOp I ever worked with!) was just waiting for the photography to finish so that he could go home for the rest of his 'seconds'. He would certainly have been in a flying suit for the. winching bit. It was summer, so immersion suits were optional for Pilot and Nav. I was still single so no hurry to go anywhere!
Thanks for the explanation CJ.I vaguely remember seeing the yellow whlrlwinds from TI when on holiday on Hayling Island in the 70's.Years later,when I was an ATCO at West Drayton,one of my colleagues,an ex 'siggie'who had flown as a winchman on Whirlwinds in Libya,said he used to climb up the outside of the A/C in flight,to light his pilot's cigarette,but on one occasion realised he'd not been wearing his 'monkey-harness',- Gulp !
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Ex82.. - 'Dinty' Moore, perchance? No monkey strap was easily done - mine was doing circuits with ATC cadets at Tern Hill and sitting in the doorway ... cold shudders for a while afterwards!
Wensleydale - that Nosmoking on the tanker is very close to the typeface I'm after! I've worked with people like that signwriter!
Wensleydale - that Nosmoking on the tanker is very close to the typeface I'm after! I've worked with people like that signwriter!
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Will try sort out the manual for you over the weekend.