Last modified: 2002-08-02 by joe mcmillan
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by Joseph
McMillan
Before unification of the armed forces ministries into a single Ministry
of Defense in 2000, the Minister of Aeronautics used a flag divided vertically,
the hoist green with a golden yellow lozenge throughout and the Brazilian
coat of arms on it, the fly blue with the Cruzeiro do Sul (Southern
Cross) constellation in white stars. A booklet published by the Ministry of Aeronautics in
1944 showed the coat of arms without the rays and scroll, but an apparently reliable unofficial
Brazilian Air Force website shows
it with both.
Sources: Ministério da Aeronáutica, Dimensões e Modelos
de Bandeiras, Insígnias e Sinais em Uso na Aeronáutica do Brasil (Rio
de Janeiro: Imprensa Nacional, 1944
Unofficial
Força Aérea Brasileira website.
Note: Although the images on the website as well as the
plates in the booklet appear to show 2:3 proportions, the text of the booklet
is clear that they should be (or should have been?) 3:4.
Joe McMillan, 29 April 2001
A recent visit to the
unofficial Força Aérea Brasileira website
indicates that the Commander of the Brazilian Air Force (the successor
position to the former Minister of Aeronautics) is now using the same flag
formerly used by the Minister.
Joseph McMillan, 2 June 2001
by
Joseph
McMillan
Sources: Ministério da Aeronáutica, Dimensões e Modelo