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Side note, I always found it funny that one of the symbols for the Royal New Zealand Air Force is the British symbol (composed of concentric circles) with a Kiwi in the middle. The symbol for their air force literally has a flightless bird on it!


But kangaroos and maple leafs can't fly either...


That’s beautiful irony, although the concentric circles is far from a British-only symbol


The symbol (and indeed, the air force itself) is directly descended from the RAF.

I’m not sure what your point was, but GP’s was quite clear.


> The symbol ... is directly descended from the RAF

Aircraft roundels originated with the French Tricolore cockade. Concentric circles are used in many many country's roundels, and are far from anything particularly British.


I think perhaps your mistake was thinking that the description given was meant to be exhaustive?

It's as if I said "The American flag (composed of stripes and a blue corner)" and you were to say "wait, that's not exclusively American"

Yes but, so what?


Yes and the Kiwi roundel is directly descended from the British RAF symbol.

Which you can distinguish from all other roundels, by definition, or they wouldn't be useful things to have!




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