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In the1970s, the Air Force adopted a light blue flag with a yellow
emblem an a quadricolor (black-red-white-green) roundel in the center.
Ivan Sache, 27 August 2002
The 1962 Air Force flag was similar but with a different emblem.
Ivan Sache & Dov Gutterman, 27 August 2002
The current aircraft marking of the Kuwaiti Air force is similar
to the national flag.
Source: Album des Pavillons
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al-Quwwat al-Jawwiya al-Kuwaitiya was formed in 1961 and adopted a
black-red-white-green roundel as seen on flags above.
Wheeler (1986) reported the roundel with an
inscription on the bottom of the green stripe. I can't figure what is written in
his image (a part of the first word is "al-Kweiti").
Cochrane & Elliott (1998)
report that the inscription is "Kuwait" which is probably wrong.
The national flag was the fin flash.
I guess that while on planes this inscription was omitted for being too small. I
can't see a trace of it at
http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/lightning/full/bbac02.jpg or
http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/lightning/full/bbac01.jpg.
Cochrane & Elliott (1998) stops in
1991 but the KAF was reformed after the Gulf War. However, no sight of the
roundel exists anymore as planes use only the national flag as fin flash. See
http://www.devon-aviation.nl/world/KuwaitF18C.jpg,
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/309802/L,
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/420016/L,
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/471972/L and
http://www.scramble.nl/kw.htm.
Dov Gutterman, 19 June 2004