![]() ![]() ![]() Those on the right get a view of the sky. In a left turn, those on the left side of the plane get a view of the surrounding countryside. Standard traffic patterns at airports use left turns. If you enjoy watching things below (assuming you get a window seat), there's a slight advantage to being on the left side of the plane. POSH could also mean: Post Only Something Hapless (using the seventeenth definition of hapless - wretched) Thus boats put the other side against the boat - the port side. (Starboard being short for steering board.) If you came alongside a pier or dock with the right side to, the oar was trapped and useless. The origin of the term stems from the long-ago use of a steering board which was always on the right side of the boat. Port is the left side of a vessel when seen by someone facing forward. ![]() The origin is the word is from British slang of a hundred years ago and refered to a pretentious person or dandy (posha).īut the whole thing is more baloney anyway. Which was baloney anyway since it didn't account for either the season or the direction of travel along the African or South American continents, or the side of the equator a segment of the voyage was on. Nor did the urban myth had to do with which was the sunny side on a transatlantic voyage - it had to do with sailing from England to India. POSH = Person Obviouslyingnorant of Sea Historyīoats did not sail port out at all, they sailed in a compass direction having nothing to do with left or right. ![]()
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