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It’s Good Friday today, which is a public holiday in the UK. This means I get a day off (woot !) but the shorter working week also means no new releases this time – and with Salute<\/a> looming large on the horizon, we’re at the stage where we hoard all our new stuff for the show.<\/p>\n

\"Hawaii\"<\/p>\n

However, I came across an article yesterday on the BBC website<\/a> about the national flag referendum in New Zealand, which led to a few clicks round the web and ended up with me discovering the state flag of Hawaii. I had no idea that the flag of one a US state contained, of all things, the Union Flag, especially since Hawaii has never been a UK territory. According to Wikipedia<\/a> the origins of the flag aren’t clear, but I still thought it would be an interesting addition to our range of self-adhesive Aeronef flags<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While I was there I drew up a couple of others that might be useful, including the national and naval flags of Cuba (handy for the Span-Am war<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\"VANF-2801\"<\/p>\n

VAN-204<\/a> – Confederate National Flag – \u00a30.50
\nVAN-205<\/a> – Hawaiian State Flag – \u00a30.50
\nVAN-2801<\/a> – Cuban National Flag – \u00a30.50
\nVAN-2802<\/a> – Cuban Naval Jack – \u00a30.50
\nVAN-2901<\/a> – Romanian National Flag – \u00a30.50<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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