More pictures about the first week of the Spring Flag 2008 taken by the correspondent Giovanni Maduli.
To have an idea of the air operations taking place during a SF exercise just think that on Apr 9, between 0600Z and 1122Z 25 missions (46 aircraft) departed from Decimomannu airbase for the morning sorties.
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