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    Ryanair and the Tricolour

    Whilst landing in Dublin Airport today I was looking at a Ryanair plane docked beside us and I noticed that the colours in the tricolour were backwards and were Orange, White and Green instead of the other way around.

    Is there a reason for this or is it just a mistake?

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    Re: Ryanair and the Tricolour

    Quote Originally Posted by bobbysands81
    Whilst landing in Dublin Airport today I was looking at a Ryanair plane docked beside us and I noticed that the colours in the tricolour were backwards and were Orange, White and Green instead of the other way around.

    Is there a reason for this or is it just a mistake?
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    Re: Ryanair and the Tricolour

    Quote Originally Posted by bobbysands81
    Whilst landing in Dublin Airport today I was looking at a Ryanair plane docked beside us and I noticed that the colours in the tricolour were backwards and were Orange, White and Green instead of the other way around.

    Is there a reason for this or is it just a mistake?
    Ryanair probably get a discount for painting them in this order

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    Re: Ryanair and the Tricolour

    The plane was upside down.
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    Re: Ryanair and the Tricolour

    Quote Originally Posted by bobbysands81
    Whilst landing in Dublin Airport today I was looking at a Ryanair plane docked beside us and I noticed that the colours in the tricolour were backwards and were Orange, White and Green instead of the other way around.

    Is there a reason for this or is it just a mistake?
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    They've opened a service to the Ivory Coast?
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    Re: Ryanair and the Tricolour

    they;re the right way around on the other side of the plane, like when you see an actual flag. The front of the plane acts as the flagpole if you like and the wind is usually from front to back on a plane so the green is always closest to the front meaning that if you're looking at the right hand side of the plane, it looks like the Ivory coast

    Anyone wanna embellish that bullsh1t excuse or am I right?
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    Re: Ryanair and the Tricolour

    Alonso may be right!




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    That's exactly right. The hoist side of the flag points towards the front of the plane, the fly points towards...well towards the air behind the plane.
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    Re: Ryanair and the Tricolour

    Well Gang, I guess that mystery is solved.

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