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image by Jay Allen Villapando, 8 February 2005
The Philippine Air Force Flag has the same ratio as the Philippine National
Flag. It has a field of air force blue (royal blue) defaced with the seal
of the Philippine Air Force (PAF): a circular inscription with the legend "Hukbong
Paghihimpawid ng Pilipinas" (Air Force of the Philippines - Philippines Forces
Aerial, to be literal) in white letters, a yellow five-pointed star preceding
each word in the legend, representing Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao; a smaller
white circle enclosing the Philippine air force symbol, a lozenge with a red
border, and a white border in turn surrounding a navy blue diamond; the lozenge
having on either side stylized wings in yellow.
Manuel L. Quezon III, 11 February 2002
The Hukbong Himpapawid ng Pilipinas (Philippine Air Force) was formed in 1935
as Philippine Constabulary Air Corps; it was dissolved in 1941 and reformed in
1945.
Cochrane & Elliott (1998) reported that
between 1935 and 1941 it used a lozenge of red-white-blue as a marking (and also
as a fin flash). The new roundel (below) created by adding blue-bordered white
wings to the previous roundel was adopted in 1945 and used until today. There
was an early version to this roundel with bars
Dov Gutterman, 22 June 2004
A lozenge of red-white-blue with blue bordered white wings extending out to
both sides. Cochrane and Elliott (1998)
reported that the tricolour lozenge was used since the formation of the Army Air
Corps in 1935 until its amalgamation with US AAC. After the WWII, the Air Force
was re-established in 1947 when the winged lozenge was introduced.
Željko Heimer, 11 November 2002
In Jane's Defence Weekly dated 06 Nov 2002, are two photos of Philippine Air
Force aircraft show low visibility air markings which are different from those I
knew from Wheeler (1986),
Cochrane and Elliott (1998), and the Australian
Air Force website: between the wings, in lieu of the twin diamond, there is a
black disc in a triangle pointing upwards.
Armand Noel du Payrat, 25 November 2002
There are two low visibility versions to these markings. One removes the red
elements (
http://www.scramble.nl/mil/5/phaf/gfx/main-s211.jpg ) and the other removes
the white elements (
http://www.scramble.nl/mil/5/phaf/gfx/main-nomad.jpg ). Philippines Air
Force web page is at
http://www.paf.mil.ph/index.html.
Dov Gutterman, 22 June 2004
A version of the marking by David Donald (2002,
Taschenhandbuch der Militärflugzeuge; ISBN: 3-89880-122-5; p.179) shows a
variant with a square instead of a lozenge, i.e. all sides are of equal
length. The inner diamond is clearly bigger.
Klaus-Michael Schneider,
19 March 2009