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Soviet Air Force

Last modified: 2005-05-13 by antónio martins
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Soviet Air Force flag
by António Martins, 22 Sep 2003
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Description of the flag

In Vlaggen, Standaarden en Wapens, by Preben Kannik [kan5X], in which this flag is intitled «Luchtmacht» (airforce), it was introduced c. 1924.
Jarig Bakker, 23 Jul 1999

The flag used by the Soviet Air Force had an air force blue field, with a fourteen-ray rising sun (similar to that of Japan) in yellow. A red star, with yellow hammer and sickle inside, featured at the centre of the sun-disc, all above the centre of the flag. Beneath the star was a winged propeller in white and black. Proportion 3:5. It should be noted that when the flag was approved on August 29, 1924, it was known as «Aerodrome flag of aviation detachments and formatio