{"id":2628,"date":"2015-09-21T14:03:48","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T04:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=2628"},"modified":"2015-09-21T14:03:48","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T04:03:48","slug":"vive-la-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=2628","title":{"rendered":"Vive La France!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/09\/blue-white-red.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-2679\" src=\"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/09\/blue-white-red.jpeg?w=627\" alt=\"Blue white &amp; red\" width=\"627\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/blue-white-red.jpeg 1701w, https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/blue-white-red-300x82.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/blue-white-red-1024x279.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/blue-white-red-768x209.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/blue-white-red-1536x418.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s amazing that even after over 150 A22 Foxbat deliveries in Australia, I still haven&#8217;t managed to get all four standard colours &#8211; yellow, white, red and blue &#8211; together in one place, side-by-side for a photo. Not to mention the half-dozen or so non-standard colours &#8211; orange, dark blue and green to mention but a few.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/09\/tricolour.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2632\" src=\"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/09\/tricolour.jpg?w=627\" alt=\"Tricolour\" width=\"82\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/tricolour.jpg 1512w, https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/tricolour-247x300.jpg 247w, https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/tricolour-844x1024.jpg 844w, https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/tricolour-768x932.jpg 768w, https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/tricolour-1266x1536.jpg 1266w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 82px) 100vw, 82px\" \/><\/a>However, the occasion of two new owners collecting white and a blue aircraft from Tyabb at least allowed me to add Mike Rudd&#8217;s venerable red Foxbat to the line up and celebrate\u00a0&#8216;les couleurs&#8217; of the French flag.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Gary Gould and Matt Coleman, both based near Orange in New South Wales, for their orders and giving me the chance to photo the bleu, blanc\u00a0et\u00a0rouge.<\/p>\n<p>PS &#8211; you might just see a peek of the yellow A32 Vixxen lurking in the hangar behind!<\/p>\n<p><em>Click the photos for larger versions.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s amazing that even after over 150 A22 Foxbat deliveries in Australia, I still haven&#8217;t managed to get all four standard colours &#8211; yellow, white, red and blue &#8211; together in one place, side-by-side for a photo. Not to mention &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=2628\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[590,977],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}