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![[Air Force Academy]](../images/t/tw^afa92.gif)
(de jure since 1986?, de facto since circa 1992)
image by Akira Oyo and Miles Li, 11 August 2014
The current ROC Air Force Academy flag (since 1986?) is the same as the Air Force
flag, fringed in yellow, with the name of the Academy in black letters on
a white vertical strip near the hoist.
Miles Li, 25 June 2014
Note that the red letters on the badge on these flags read, from left to
right, "Jiangqiao" ("Stoutbridge", an air base near Hangzhou where the Academy
was founded). It is interesting to note that when the flag was first designed in
1948 it was standard practice to write Chinese from right to left; the fact that
the red letters are written from left to right shows a Western influence which
becomes the norm today.
Miles Li, 11 August 2014
![[Central Flying School]](../images/c/cn^cfs.gif)
image by Miles Li, 27 September 2014
Central Flying School is the predecessor of the ROC Air Force Academy.
Despite its sawtooth fringe and its strip with unit name, this flag could be
hoisted onto a fixed flagstaff as well as carried on a handheld flagpole.
Miles Li, 27 September 2014
![[Air Force Academy]](../images/t/tw^afa48.gif)
de jure:
![[Air Force Academy]](../images/t/tw^aa48.gif)
image by Akira Oyo and Miles Li, 12 August 2014
The pattern used was that of
the ROCAF unit flag 1948-58: Red with the Air Force flag in the
canton, the unit badge in the lower fly, and a yellow vertical stripe
at the hoist bearing the unit name in black letters. Unlike later
versions it had no fringe. Proportions 3:5. Canton being 9/20 the
length and 1/2 the width of the flag, i.e. proportions 2:3. Hoist
being 1/10 the length of the flag.
Miles Li, 06 June 2014
de facto:
![[Air Force Academy]](../images/t/tw^afa58.gif)
image by Akira Oyo and Miles Li, 11 August 2014
de jure:
![[Air Force Academy]](../images/t/tw^aa58.gif)
image by Akira Oyo and Miles Li, 12 August 2014
de facto:
![[Air Force Academy]](../images/t/tw^afa81.gif)
image by Akira Oyo and Miles Li, 11 August 2014
It was the flag of ROC Air Force Academy since 1981-86.
Akira Oyo, 25 June 2014
Please refer to the following YouTube footage from 1981:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6iWMluxczQ
This flag was flanked by four unit-like flags. Which is why I say this flag was
the ROC Air Force Academy flag 1981-86, and others the unit flag.
Miles Li, 25 June 2014
de jure:
![[Air Force Academy]](../images/t/tw^aa81.gif)
image by Akira Oyo and Miles Li, 12 August 2014
(de facto 1986?-circa 1992)
![[Air Force Academy]](../images/t/tw^afa86.gif)
image by Akira Oyo and Miles Li, 26 June 2014
![[Air Force Academy]](../images/t/tw^afau.gif)
image by Miles Li, 12 August 2014
It
was the style of the flags of the cadet units (such as the regiment, the battalions, and the companies) at ROC Air Force Academy before 1986.
The badge of the academy was adopted in 1949, so the style might have been used
since 1949 to 1986.
Akira Oyo, 25 June 2014
Note that the red letters on the badge of this flag read, vertically, "Officers'
School". The name of the unit is written in black letters on the yellow hoist.
Miles Li, 11 August 2014
The name of the unit was written in black letters on the yellow hoist.
Miles Li, 12 August 2014