A Trident for the office!

[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

[clavel9]

Thanks for that link

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

Garry

OOPS!

My mistake. Must try harder.

B.

[Garry Russell]

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

[DaveB]

...and, as per previous notes, it's wearing titles in Sans Serif as befitting BEA FJ ;-) What a great livery FJ was

ATB

DaveB :tab:

[Garry Russell]

Very much so Dave

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

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

[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.

[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

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

[DaveB]

Good one Garry

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

ATB

DaveB :tab:

[petermcleland]

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:-

[Garry Russell]

Cheers Peter

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

Garry