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Botswana Airforce

Aircraft Marking
Fin flash

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Aircraft Marking

image by Željko Heimer, 18 Mar 2001

Botswana has a triangular "roundel" of light blue - white - black. The triangle points down, and apparently from the image in Album 2000, it is not an equilateral triangle.
Source: Album 2000.
Željko Heimer, 18 Mar 2001

Fin flash

image by Jarig Bakker, 19 March 2001

The Botswana Defence Force (BDF) was formed in 1977. Aircraft are marked in the national colors of blue - for the sky - and black and white for racial unity. The wings and fuselage use the colors in the form of a triangle. A thin stripe of blue over white over black is painted across the fin and rudder.
The image in the book is a triband delined by the form of the tail. I have assumed that the definition of the form in 1:2 proportions is correct.
Source: Cochrane & Elliott's Military Aircraft Insignia of the World, 1998.
Jarig Bakker, 19 Mar 2001

Botswana Defence Forces Air Wing was formed in 1977 and since then use a upside-down tricolor (black-white-blue) triangle accompanied with Yugoslav-like tail stripes of blue-white-black.

Total agreement between all sources images are at http://www.skytamer.com/roundels/botswana/01.htm.
Photos at http://www.tim-beachcom/shore01/strike.jpg and http://www.scramble.nl/bw.htm.
Dov Gutterman, 12 June 2004