Space Age Flagpole

By Nill Black


Since the first known fabric flags date back to approximately 2,000 years ago, it can be argued that flagpoles also date that far back since a the flag needs to be attached to a pole of some kind for it to fly freely. What we do know is that the first known flagpoles were made from wood. A woodworker would find a tree that was straight and prune the limbs and suckers from it to produce a pole. The pole was then inserted into the ground and a flag tied to the top.

More refined wooden poles were made with spruce or pine trees, which naturally grow straighter than hardwood trees. These trees were stripped of bark and branches and then thoroughly smoothed down with drawknives and planes. They were covered with multiple coats of animal fat to make them weatherproof before being planted in the ground. Because the poles were planted directly in the dirt they tended to rot at the base. Still, well-constructed wooden poles were beautiful artifacts that could remain functional for as many as 50 years.

Close to the turn of the twentieth century, steel banner poles turned out to be more prominent, in spite of the fact that they were regularly basically the reused materials that had filled different needs. Wooden posts got to be outdated. In the later 1920s, flagpole makers started building the long tapered poles so basic today.

Assembling advances in aluminum poles drove in the end to the strength of aluminum and aluminum combinations as the essential materials for making flagpoles today. Aluminum is more flexible as an assembling material, and it has gotten to be far less expensive than steel.

The pole used to "fly" the pennant planted on the moon by the Apollo 11 crew may have been the most fabricated flagpole ever. The pole was arranged with an extendable level support to hold a pennant out immovably without an atmosphere, on the surface of the moon. It was made light weight and used an extendable outline that could be controlled by space pilgrims wearing massive space suit gloves.

Today, strong, stable flagpoles by The Flagpole Warehouse proved to be the best simple and affordable solutions for the U.S. Army and Navy to serve as lightning rods at the U.S Naval Submarine Base in Kings Bay, GA, and as structures for gun range warning systems at the U.S. Army Strategic Operations installation in Southern California and Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

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