Air Force Blue

Royal Air Force Ensign, Flag Ratio: 1:2.

A special feature of these pages is the colour of the text of the posts: it's the Air Force Blue, concerning the topic of the blog.

Air Force blue is a variety of colours that are a form of blue. These colours are used by air forces for colour identification. Air Force blue or RAF blue is a medium shade of the colour azure. The shade derives from the light blue uniforms issued to the newly formed British Royal Air Force in 1920, which were influential in the design of the uniforms of some other air forces around the world. The choice of blue uniforms for the RAF was the result of a surplus of inexpensive sky blue twill in the United Kingdom, which had been intended for use in the uniforms of Czarist Russian imperial cavalrymen before the Russian Revolution occurred (1917).