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[Archangel]

Poland & Monaco, for instance, both share a similar design.

Where exactly IS this "Tenerife"? I can't say I've ever heard of it? Is it a micro-nation?

Cheers,

Todd

it's a martial thing, in war one has to be able to identify friend or foe, so flags have to be distinctly different, e.g., in WW1 British ground troops shot down planes flying the Union Jack since, from the ground, it resembled the German cross. The tricolour roundel was distinct.

Tenerife is in the Canary Islands, you might remember it from a horrendous disaster involving two jumbo jets in the '80's, I think.

[Andrew Breecher]

it's a martial thing, in war one has to be able to identify friend or foe, so flags have to be distinctly different, e.g., in WW1 British ground troops shot down planes flying the Union Jack since, from the ground, it resembled the German cross. The tricolour roundel was distinct.

So when Tenerife and Scotland go to war, Scotland will have to adopt a thistle insignia on its fighter jets to keep from shooting down it's own planes. You know, the next time Scotland goes to war against the Canary Islands.

Andrew.