[BITList] again

[HUGH]

David,

It's all to do with aesthetics and symmetry and possibly aerodynamics.  A 
flag (or jack) the right way round on the stbd side might cause a drag 
tending to turn the plane to stbd (or do planes turn to the right?).  Ships 
don't go fast enough, though some BI Cs achieved pretty impressive speeds if 
one believes everything written.

While I drew ships port side on when young, as an engineer, in various 
drawing offices, I drew and visualised them stbd side on as did all of my 
colleagues.  The ship DO drew them the other way round. I used to know the 
reason for this, but not now.  Until the days of CAD it could be a right 
bugger reversing the steelwork drawings, but when things were on screen it 
was a simple procedure.  The main result of all this was that plan views 
(the main views) were aft to the left.  Other views were ad lib and mostly 
on different drawings.  Projection of one view from another was never used - 
we spent hours at tech drawing evening classes projecting elevations and 
sections from plans, only to find such techniques weren't used in the real 
world.

Hugh.