Good morning. Last year, Amanda Morgan watched a production of “My Fair Lady” at the Sydney Opera House, drove from Queenstown to Christchurch on New Zealand’s... The thick white bar in the top corner closest to the flagpole should be along the top edge of the flag‘From early in its life the Admiralty itself frequently referred to the flag as the Union Jack, whatever its use, and in 1902 an Admiralty Circular announced: ‘Their Lordships had decided that either name could be used officially’.‘Such use was given Parliamentary approval in 1908 when it was stated that ‘the Union Jack should be regarded as the National flag’.’An upside-down Union Jack is traditionally used as a coded distress signal by British forces.The key to working out if it is the right way up is to look at the top left corner.When the flag is flown correctly, the thick white bar in the top corner closest to the flagpole should be along the top edge of the flag. If we went to war, and all the assets needed to deploy to the Middle East for example, we would change the colour.’Labour’s Louise Haigh said: ‘When families across the country are worried about their jobs, health and the education of their children, they will rightly question the Government’s priorities when they are spending almost a million pounds redecorating a plane which in all likelihood has been grounded for months because of the coronavirus.’In May 2018 Mr Johnson asked why the Voyager needed to be grey as he said he needed his own plane in order to boost Britain’s post-Brexit trade prospects.Mr Johnson added it was ‘striking’ such a plane did not yet exist and suggested it could be a different colour.He added: ‘And also, why does it have to be grey? It’s particularly significant for us because it’s the first design worn by the British Airways that we all know today, with the distinctive lower case ‘a’ and the Union Flag on the tailfin.’The livery was designed by creative agency Negus & Negus, giving it its name. With thanks to David Webb for sending us the following images with the flag unfortunately being displayed the wrong way up. Now, to mark BA’s centenary, a Boeing 747 will be repainted in the Negus design.The 747-400, registration G-CIVB, entered the IAC paint bay at Dublin Airport last Saturday where it is being repainted with the first version of the Negus livery. Really can’t make it up how incompetent this government is!’The plane, which had been a military grey colour, has been resprayed in white, with the Union Flag on the tailfin and United Kingdom written in gold on the fuselage.Enthusiasts said they thought the Union Flag on its tailfin had been done upside down as Boris Johnson’s official aircraft took off from Cambridgeshire yesterday (pictured)The plane, which had been a military grey colour, has been resprayed in white, with a Union Flag on the tailfin and United Kingdom written in gold on the fuselageThe RAF was quick to defend the paint job, with a source saying it was the right way round.‘The convention is for the flag design to appear as though it is flying from a flag placed on the nose of the aircraft as it travels through the air’The Union Jack was first introduced in 1606 as the ‘British flag’ to be flown at the main masthead of all ships from England and Scotland.In the 1600s the flag was referred to as ‘the Jack’, ‘Jack flag’, ‘the King’s Jack’ and ‘His Majesty’s Jack’.As for what it should be called in what situation nowadays, the Flag Institute says: ‘It is often stated that the Union Flag should only be described as the Union Jack when flown in the bows of a warship, but this is a relatively recent idea.The key to working out if it is the right way up is to look at the top left corner. It won’t be the whole of the aeroplane, it will be a part of it.’The source said the plane could be changed back to grey ‘very quickly’ if deemed necessary in a wartime scenario.They added: ‘It will have a lot of functionalities.

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