United Kingdom: Royal Air Force

Last modified: 2005-07-16 by rob raeside
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by Martin Grieve

• Description and use of the RAF ensign
• Order in Council (establishing the flag)
• Constructions details
• Derivation of the flag
• Other RAF flags
• Queen's colours of the RAF
• RAF Yacht Club
• Use of the US flag and RAF ensign at US Air Force bases in Britain
• History of the RAF
• Royal Air Force rank flags
• History of the Royal Air Force
• Royal Air Force proposal
• Royal Air Force: Timeline for introduction of the flag
• Royal Flying Corps

See also:

• United Kingdom
• Civil air ensign of the United Kingdom
• Ministry of Defence and army
• Royal Navy
• Belgian section of the Royal Air Force
• RAF Sailing Association
• RAF Yacht Club

The British Royal Air Force Ensign is in light "Air Force" blue with the Union Jack in the canton and the Royal Air Force roundel, concentric rings of red-white-blue (from the inside out) in the middle of the fly.
Roy Stilling, 18 December 1995

Before 1918 the Royal Naval Air Service used the White Ensign and I presume that the Royal Flying Corps used whatever flags were appropriate for a corps of the army, perhaps just the Union Jack? An interim flag was produced to represent the Royal