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?

Sadly that doesn't make any sense.

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" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Maybe it was the French...

An Australian TV show called 'A Current Affair' had that problem, according to a photo I've seen.

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...

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.

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

I know. I was being polite and it was 'its' not 'their' rather than 'its' not 'it's'. :p

Spelling.....
 

Now if it was an aeroplane it wouldn't be too short!

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.

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?

BA (may even have been BEA in those days) painted a few RAF VC-10s (in a rather attractive orange-peel finish, IIRC). :O

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).

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....3b4d409bcf.jpg

The old Airbus livery on the A340!

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....61d63d4f8a.jpg