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CONTRIBUTOR OF

THE MONTH

GIOVANNI

COLLA

Giovanni Colla has been up close with

military aviation for most of his 33 years,

working as both a photographer and

freelance journalist for the past 15 years.

He is a regular contributor to aviation

magazines around the world, including

as a valued roving reporter for Combat

Aircraft. Giovanni recently embedded

with the Aeronautica Militare Euro ghters

as they took on a new Baltic Air Policing

mission, giving him the rare opportunity

to  y in an Estonian Air Force An-2 ‘Colt’

during a slow-mover intercept training

mission. ‘I feel very honored that the

Aeronautica Militare and the Estonian Air

Force gave me an exclusive inside look at

their operations in the region’, he says.

VMFA-312 ‘Checkerboards’ is

one of two US Marine Corps

F/A-18C squadrons assigned

to US Navy carrier air wings.

It is currently on cruise with

CVW-17 aboard the USS

Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71).

US Navy/MCS3C Alex Perlman

04 May 2018 //^ http://www.combataircraft.net

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