Kitbag is spot on with his post.
I'm slightly envious of the way that the yanks respect their flag and the whole Stars and Stripes thing that they have going on.
Let's kick the arse out of it and paint up a Spitfire Mk9 in the Union Jack and have it piloted by some chap called John Smith and fly it up and down the Thames and pretty much everywhere else for that matter.
Nahh, maybe just the tail fin of a Eurofighter, oh and force BA to repaint their jets at the same time.