{"id":2688,"date":"2015-09-27T09:18:36","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T23:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=2688"},"modified":"2015-09-27T09:18:36","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T23:18:36","slug":"vive-la-france-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=2688","title":{"rendered":"Vive La France (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Montelimar\"<\/a>French FoxbatPilot subscriber\u00a0Ferdinand Colonna-Cesari responded to my ‘Vive La France<\/a>‘ post with a link to some photos of his Aeroprakt A22<\/a> aircraft based at Mont\u00e9limar<\/a> in France. I have never visited, but this looks like a wonderfully French\u00a0picturesque medieval town in south eastern France, originally built in Roman times and dominated by a castle.<\/p>\n

An interesting link for Australians is that Mont\u00e9limar – apart from being the world nougat capital – was the birthplace of navigator Louis-Claude de Freycinet, who, along with his brother,\u00a0Louis-Henri de Freycinet, joined the French navy in 1800 and sailed all the way to Australia, re-visiting many of the places originally explored by Englishman Matthew Flinders. The Freycinet brothers returned to France and published their map of the Australian coastline<\/a> in 1811 – at least 3 years before Flinders managed to do the same, so there is some ‘discussion’ as to who first ‘discovered’ what parts of Australia…<\/p>\n

There are several places in Australia named after Freycinet: the Freycinet Peninsula<\/a>, a wonderfully scenic part of the eastern Tasmanian coast, including Wineglass Bay<\/a>; the Freycinet Estuary in south Western Australia (WA) and Cape Freycinet<\/a>, further up the WA coast.<\/p>\n

Finally, if you want a more obscure connection with Australia, have a look at Ferdinand’s aircraft registration – F-JUOZ.<\/p>\n

So what initially looks like a simple link to a few photos of an aeroplane, turns out to be a serendipitous couple of co-incidences which brightened my Sunday morning! Thank you, Ferdinand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

French FoxbatPilot subscriber\u00a0Ferdinand Colonna-Cesari responded to my ‘Vive La France‘ post with a link to some photos of his Aeroprakt A22 aircraft based at Mont\u00e9limar in France. I have never visited, but this looks like a wonderfully French\u00a0picturesque medieval town … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,4],"tags":[254,448,450,638,666,1083],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688"}],"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=2688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}