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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsA question about airplanes ---
Just watching the Pope's plane taxi for take-off, and noticed a flag fluttering on the nose of the plane. Does it remain there for the flight?
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A question about airplanes --- (Original Post)
madamesilverspurs
Sep 2015
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BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)1. I wouldn't think so. 540 mph can certainly rip a flag to shreads. ??
petronius
(26,608 posts)2. If it was like this, I imagine the pilots pull the flag in and close the windows before flight:
Hope they do, anyway...
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)3. In this video - Pope leaving Cuba -
(I didn't watch the ceremony or him getting on plane - just cut to the chase)- you can see the plane heading down the runway with the flags still outside the windows. At around 32:00 the plane stops and they take the flags inside.
madamesilverspurs
(15,814 posts)4. Well that answers that!
Thank you, I know it's no biggie, but sometimes the curiosity gets its way.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)5. i probably wondered a
little about it myself. When this taxiing went on for a several minutes I was beginning to think maybe they just left them out there to be knocked off.