{"id":7314,"date":"2022-06-17T08:00:52","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T07:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caffrenchwing.fr\/?p=7314"},"modified":"2022-06-11T17:56:23","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T16:56:23","slug":"le-spirit-of-lewis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caffrenchwing.fr\/en\/2022\/06\/17\/le-spirit-of-lewis\/","title":{"rendered":"Le \u00ab\u00a0Spirit of Lewis\u00a0\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Avec ma nouvelle peinture, j\u2019ai aussi re\u00e7u un nose-art. Laissons le Pr\u00e9sident d\u2019alors, le regrett\u00e9 Colonel de la CAF Bernard Delfino, nous expliquer l\u2019origine du nom et de l\u2019insigne\u00a0:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00ab\u00a0Aux d\u00e9buts du French Supporter Squadron, un de nos membres, Lewis Bateman, citoyen britannique r\u00e9sidant pr\u00e8s de Toulouse et amoureux de la CAF, brillant ing\u00e9nieur a\u00e9ronautique \u00e0 l\u2019origine de la famille des Airbus, devint l\u2019un de nos membres les plus actifs et les plus passionn\u00e9s. Colonel de la CAF, il aida l\u2019Association autant qu\u2019il put pendant plusieurs ann\u00e9es et de fa\u00e7on tr\u00e8s efficace. Sa gentillesse et son int\u00e9r\u00eat pour le Squadron devinrent vite l\u00e9gendaires, et nous lui devons plusieurs projets couronn\u00e9s de succ\u00e8s. Ce jusqu\u2019en 2000, o\u00f9 il fut victime de la maladie et emport\u00e9 bien trop t\u00f4t.<\/p>\n<p>Nous avons acquis notre Piper Cub apr\u00e8s son d\u00e9c\u00e8s, en 2003. C\u2019est donc en son honneur que nous avons baptis\u00e9 l\u2019avion par ce jeu de mots a\u00e9ronautique \u00ab\u00a0Spirit of Lewis\u00a0\u00bb en r\u00e9f\u00e9rence au \u00ab\u00a0Spirit of St Louis\u00a0\u00bb de Charles Lindbergh, et que j\u2019ai imagin\u00e9 cr\u00e9er ce modeste logo d\u2019une luciole (Firefly en Anglais) qui \u00e9tait le nom de son avion pr\u00e9f\u00e9r\u00e9, du temps o\u00f9 il d\u00e9buta dans l\u2019aviation, plus exactement dans l\u2019a\u00e9ronavale britannique: la Fleet Air Arm, o\u00f9 il s\u2019occupait de la maintenance de ce tr\u00e8s bel avion, notamment pendant la guerre de Cor\u00e9e.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7315\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7315\" class=\"wp-image-7315 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caffrenchwing.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/20030712_egsu_firefly_wb271.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caffrenchwing.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/20030712_egsu_firefly_wb271.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.caffrenchwing.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/20030712_egsu_firefly_wb271-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caffrenchwing.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/20030712_egsu_firefly_wb271-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7315\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Un Fairey Firefly restaur\u00e9 aux couleurs de la Royal Navy.<\/p><\/div><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avec ma nouvelle peinture, j\u2019ai aussi re\u00e7u un nose-art. Laissons le Pr\u00e9sident d\u2019alors, le regrett\u00e9 Colonel de la CAF Bernard Delfino, nous expliquer l\u2019origine du nom et de l\u2019insigne\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Aux d\u00e9buts du French Supporter Squadron, un de nos membres, Lewis Bateman, citoyen britannique r\u00e9sidant pr\u00e8s de Toulouse et amoureux de la CAF, brillant ing\u00e9nieur a\u00e9ronautique [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":7317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-little-blue-cloud"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.caffrenchwing.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/20130922_lfpp_j3c65_15243_fghlq_caf_32202.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2NZ1W-1TY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caffrenchwing.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caffrenchwing.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caffrenchwing.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caffrenchwing.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caffrenchwing.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7314"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.caffrenchwing.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7320,"href":"https:\/\/www.caffrenchwing.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7314\/revisions\/7320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caffrenchwing.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caffrenchwing.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caffrenchwing.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caffrenchwing.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}