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current design[edit]

Apparently Robert G. Heft designed the current flag ("Robert G. Heft" redirects hither). https://trivia.cracked.com/image-pictofact-11188-35-counterintuitive-facts-about-history-that-have-no-business-being-this-true . See his simple-English Wikipedia entry. Kdammers (talk) 18:09, 15 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Robert G. Heft predicted what a 50-star flag would look like, and his prediction turned out to be correct. Not sure how much influence he had over the workings of government agencies, such as the Heraldic Program Office (now known as the United States Army Institute of Heraldry), the official U.S. emblem-designing agency. There's a debunking article on the Slate website (and of course "Cracked" is not a reliable source)... AnonMoos (talk) 06:50, 17 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Code practice[edit]

Under "Code," the article reads, "Both of these codes are generally ignored, almost always without comment." There is no support given for this statement. In particular, I question the latter half. The first half might be supported by https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/national-international/what-is-the-us-flag-code-and-how-does-it-work/2649925/ and possibly https://www.ushistory.org/betsy/flagetiq4.html . Kdammers (talk) 01:02, 19 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 8 April 2024[edit]

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edit flag color to a lighter red because it looks more modern and new. Qwertywasdf (talk) 17:48, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Cannolis (talk) 17:58, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

grammar issue in "Display on vehicles" section[edit]

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"Nevertheless, Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo were launched and landed vertically and could not horizontal atmospheric flight as the Space Shuttle did on its landing approach, so the streaming convention was not followed."

The bold phrase highlighted in the sentence is not grammatically correct. The phrase could probably be simply replaced with "not horizontally".

174.44.211.37 (talk) 20:35, 22 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

References

Done Liu1126 (talk) 20:54, 22 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]