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Brown records both funnel forms in use. The flag is blue with a yellow eagle bearing a red-white-black shield; its white claws each hold a hemisphere.

This blue funnel has a black top and white circle bearing a version of the eagle or hawk emblem. The head faces left, forward; rectangular yellow wings carry three narrow blue vertical bands each. Two green stars stand vertically in the shield’s white band. The indistinct feet appear within black rings, and the black top may overlap the shield or vice versa. The form was also noted on General Petroleum’s Bakr in April 1965.

Ebn Al Waleed, also written Ibn Alwaleed, shows a red mark below the shield in older photographs which later disappears. The bird faces forward on both sides, with shield colours in the same order, opposite to the arms, and a white border. Rosanoski relates the design to the golden Hawk of Quarish and Egypt’s vertical tricolour shield adopted with the Federation of Arab Republics in 1972, adding two globes. The hemispheres’ fine detail was initially presumed but is clearer on Alexandria in April 2007.

Photographs show an attached emblem with shadows: the wings appear as two yellow stripes on black, with black outer edging and marks below the shield. Continents are displayed differently. Al Munufiyah has the attached globes painted over in funnel blue; a starboard view points the head aft, while another port view points it forward.

A starboard Ebn Al Waleed photograph shows the head forward, assumed also on the port side. Ras Sedr in April 2006 probably carries this form, but its wings or surrounding area appear light blue.

Al Hussein appears with the bird’s body missing in one photograph and fully painted in April 2009. Ikhnaton’s starboard head points aft. Ras Sedr has E494 with an aft-facing head in January 2010. Most shields are black-white-red, but Taba has red-white-black on a white-bordered shield, confirmed in 2006 and 2013, with the head aft on its starboard side.

The blue shade is uncertain.