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 zachary harden
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![[Laos Aircraft marking]](../images/l/la^afr19.gif) image by Zachary Harden, 11 February 2019
  image by Zachary Harden, 11 February 2019
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A Yakovlev Yak-130 was spotted in a 2019 military parade with brand new markings on the tail and wings. This new roundel is the design of the national flag put into a circular pattern with the same ratios as the national flag.
Zachary Harden, 11 February 2019
Virtually the same as the national flag. Military Aircraft Insignia of the World 
  [cos98] claims it is the flag painted on the
  planes, however it is once shown in slanted position.
  Željko Heimer, 4 April 2002
![[Laos Aircraft marking]](../images/l/la^afr55.gif) image by Zachary Harden, 16 April 2019
  image by Zachary Harden, 16 April 2019
According to Cochrane & Elliot Military Aircraft Insignia of the World 
  [cos98] before the Pathet Lao took over (1975), the Aviation Royale Laotienne (formed in 1955) used a roundel
  based on the national flag of that era: the central device in white on red disc bordered in white. see http://www.aircommandos.org/BobAndDon/Episode0000-0016.jpg They also used a fin flash of the national flag of the time- red with
  white elephants under a parasol (monarchy) that is upon five steps (five first commandments of Buddhism), and on the wings & fuselage
  used red roundels with the same symbol.
  Dov Gutterman, 9 February 2000 and 19 June 2004