Huge spelling mistake on Cathay Pacific plane

It’s a painting error, it’s hardly bad publicity

For an acceptance? It wouldn’t be up to the PIC, it would be up to the company

From what I've been seeing lately, they're making money hand over fist.

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So even the best of us have spelling mis-haps - I'm sure you know how to spell hangar as it relates to aircraft..

Suppose you as an English speaker/reader worked in the aircraft engineering field.

Now you would likely perform engineering to an exceptional standard.

Now suppose you worked in decoration and were asked for example to apply the Arabic writing to an Emirates, Qatar or Etihad aircraft, or the Chinese characters to a Chinese airline or any other aircraft requiring words from a language you don’t speak, let alone read or write... The likelyhood of you making what seems an ‘obvious’ error to someone who does read those words is massively increased.

The other thing you need to understand is that a word written in any language in a four foot tall font does not look even look like that word when you are one foot away. Couple that with the fact that you’re actually looking at the word in the form of parts of a character spanned across multiple pieces of a stencil and you’ll certainly not notice the error.

Take care. I think you meant hangar.