[TGresham]

Pat:

No, we did not get a Skymaster for the Shreveport shoot.

Can't make it to Key West for the gathering. It doesn't fit with the way I'm shooting this.

Here's what I do, to hold down costs. We go to one location for a week, and gather a bunch of planes there. We shoot profiles on various airplanes, stories on people, visit fly-in destinations in the area, and locate other aviation stories we can do from that location.

Each half-hour show will contain 4 or 5 segments (airplane profile, destination, etc.).

In Shreveport, we shot 30 segments in 6 days, which is really a whirlwind pace. We bring in eight crew members from around the country, including our own formation pilot.

All this is just to explain why we can't travel to a location for one or two segments.

I'm working on a shoot in May, at Oshkosh. Might be able to fly a Skymaster in for that one.