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    Which country's flag is the only one in the world that is flown in wartime, in a way that is different from how it is flown at other times?

    Question #55717. Asked by shady shaker. (Mar 07 05 7:31 AM)


    mibmob

    Isn't this Japan? The rays?

    Mar 07 05, 7:31 AM
    shady shaker

    No golden cumquat for you, my girl!

    Mar 07 05, 7:43 AM
    Arpeggionist

    Israel's flag has not yet been flown at peacetime, so we might never know.

    Mar 07 05, 7:59 AM
    Stew54

    The flag of the Philipines swaps the position of the red and the blue panels if the country is at war:

    http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/ph.html

    I did read an article that suggested during wartime the red and the blue panels are omitted from the French flag altogether, but that is unconfirmed.

    Mar 07 05, 8:01 AM
    shady shaker

    Yay! to Stewie.

    Mar 07 05, 8:07 AM
    coolio_daniel_uk

    You can only call the Union Flag the Union Jack if you have permission from the Queen! the flag can also be turned upside down so that you can tell others that you are in trouble without the enemy realising, this doesnt work anymore though.

    Mar 07 05, 9:45 AM
    Stew54

    Union Jack is a common name for the Union Flag. Union Flag is definitely correct terminology, whereas Union Jack is a little suspect. Although it is used even by UK Government publications to mean the Union Flag, that is, to the purists, a slang usage. Books will tell you that the original "Union Jack" was a Union Flag flown on a jackstaff (on a ship), though I'm not sure this is correct.

    It is certainly true that flying your colours upside down is an internationally understood sign of distress (as distinct from flying someone else's flag upside down which is generally done to offend!) From a distance though it is difficult to see whether this is the case with the Union Flag. This is sometimes suggested as the reason that the versions of the flag commonly used at sea have the Union Flag design in the top left quarter, with the rest of the flag plain red, blue or white (depending on the type of vessel). Much easier to tell that has been reversed.

    Mar 07 05, 10:30 AM
    shady shaker

    Bit like standing on your head!

    Mar 07 05, 2:09 PM
    mibmob

    Did you know that you can only call it the Union JACK if it is on board a ship?

    Mar 08 05, 8:32 AM
    Stew54

    Baloo, I think we have discovered why Austria is not a significant maritime nation. Their flag is the same upside down.

    Oh, and they *are* landlocked. I suppose that's a factor too.

    Mar 08 05, 10:55 AM
    Baloo55th

    But there used to be an Austrian navy, and a Hungarian one too. They both used to have coastlines - until the Italians gained Venezia and Slovenia became part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. The 'Regent' of Hungary after WW I was Admiral Horthy.

    Mar 08 05, 6:51 PM


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