{"id":846,"date":"2013-06-29T14:44:08","date_gmt":"2013-06-29T13:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fondation-antoine-de-saint-exupery.org\/la-fondation-et-les-ailes-du-petit-prince-au-bourget-2\/"},"modified":"2014-04-20T14:53:11","modified_gmt":"2014-04-20T13:53:11","slug":"the-foundation-and-les-ailes-du-petit-prince-in-le-bourget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.fasej.org\/en\/the-foundation-and-les-ailes-du-petit-prince-in-le-bourget\/","title":{"rendered":"The Foundation and Les Ailes du Petit Prince in Le Bourget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the occasion of the 50th edition of the Paris Air Show in Le Bourget (SIAE), the French NGO Les Ailes du Petit Prince (The Wings of The Little Prince) invited 70 sick and handicapped children from medico-educational institutes in the Ile-de-France region to discover the world of aviation under privileged circumstances, thanks to the support of the air show\u2019s organisers, the Antoine de Saint-Exup\u00e9ry Youth Foundation, the French Ministry of Defence, the French Air Force, the Museum of Air and Space in Le Bourget and industrial companies, among them Dassault Aviation, Air France and EADS.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-832 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fondation-antoine-de-saint-exupery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/29.TopMenu-FR-EN-01-ESPACE_ARMEE_AIR_LE_BOURGET_21-06-2013.png\" alt=\"29.Top&amp;Menu FR-EN 01-ESPACE_ARMEE_AIR_LE_BOURGET_21-06-2013\" width=\"560\" height=\"357\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Les Ailes du Petit Prince has organised for more than 15 years operations involving first flights in light aircraft, in the aim of allowing children deprived of freedom due to serious diseases or handicaps to discover our planet from the sky.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-834 alignleft\" style=\"margin: 10px 10px 10px 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fondation-antoine-de-saint-exupery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/29.Bottom-FR-EN-02-CEMAA_LE_BOURGET_21-06-2013.png\" alt=\"29.Bottom FR-EN 02-CEMAA_LE_BOURGET_21-06-2013\" width=\"350\" height=\"236\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This unique event, organised within the framework of the international celebrations of the 70th anniversary of the first publication of the famous tale by Antoine de Saint-Exup\u00e9ry, The Little Prince, in New York City in 1943, favoured exchanges between these children \u2013 for whom aviation represents an inaccessible universe \u2013 and the main actors of the aviation sector.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The French Air Force Chief of Staff, General Denis Mercier, expressed his support of this civic initiative during his meeting with Nicolas Delsalle-Mun, Secretary General of the Antoine de Saint-Exup\u00e9ry Youth Foundation, and Dorine Bourneton, member of the Foundation\u2019s patronage committee and ambassador of the French Air Force\u2019s Rafale Solo Display team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the occasion of the 50th edition of the Paris Air Show in Le Bourget (SIAE), the French NGO Les Ailes du Petit Prince (The Wings of The Little Prince) invited 70 sick and handicapped children from medico-educational institutes in the Ile-de-France region to discover the world of aviation under privileged circumstances, thanks to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1653,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.fasej.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.fasej.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.fasej.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.fasej.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.fasej.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/dev.fasej.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":854,"href":"https:\/\/dev.fasej.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions\/854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.fasej.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.fasej.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.fasej.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.fasej.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}