#102
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by Ex-Ascot » Thu Nov 07, 2019 12:34 pm
TheGreenGoblin wrote: ↑Thu Nov 07, 2019 10:19 am
Ex-Ascot wrote: ↑Thu Nov 07, 2019 8:38 am
Since when has a flag flown against the airflow? We had this incorrect criticism on 10 Sqn. On the port side the flag pole should be imagined left of the Union Flag. On the starboard to the right. They are quite correct. Don't know who this Moore chap is but he can wind his neck in. Used to piss me off when folk came up with this crap.
You might accuse me of being an agent provocateur here but what about the case where a chap wants to do some aero's and includes a tail slide in his routine? It is not like he can hop out mid air and change the orientation of one flag mid air before the tail slide?
Actually I did think of this GG or on the apron with a tail wind. Anyway, if we were in a tail slide in a VC10 the last f...ing thing on my mind would be the protocol of which way the Union Flags were.
Thanks for the reference GG, never seen that. I will read it. When taxiing in on a Royal visit you had to fly the standard of the principle pax and the national flag of the county. Can't remember which way around they went but in the USA it had to be opposite as nothing was allowed to be a certain side of the stars and stripes thing.
Doing world Royal tours there were of course Union Flags all over the place 50% were upside down.
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