I'm a celebrity! (well... we'll see)

[BruceS]

I had the most interesting phone call the other day. This lady, Sandi Serling in Lake Oswego is a Television star and is working with her producer to put together a pilot for a show called "Curves Ahead". It's sort of a travel/adventure/reality show about a lady riding a motorcycle across America's backroads, and all the interesting people she meets along the way. Sort of a theme on all the great people that are the fabric of America. If the pilot goes well, the producer hopes that a network will pick it up and make a series out of it.

Well... somehow she stumbled on Van's Aircraft. The guys there took her on a tour of the factory and then up on an airplane ride... I can see why... she's a hottie. She was blown away by it all, and by the idea that an ordinary guy could build an airplane in his garage.

She asked if there was someone in the area that was about halfway into it that she could interview and film some footage for the show. Well, apparently Randy Lervold gave her my name and phone number (right, Randy?). So she called me last week and came over for an initial visit. She came back here on Saturday with her cameraman and they spent a couple hours here with me. They interviewed and filmed Jamie, too. She did a great job. It was fun! The RV project is the real celebrity, of course.

They promised me that when the pilot is finished, I'll get a copy. I can't wait to see the finished product. I hope to be part of something that becomes a series and do something positive to promote aviation and homebuilding. I never expected that something like this would come up.

Here she is riding in for the camera, all decked out in her leathers. They shot this several times. It was really funny on one take when she rode right by the house and forgot to turn in.


I pulled my tail section off the wall and took all the blue vinyl off and polished it up for a nice visual. They loved it! I got out my rivet gun and hammered a rivet on some scrap for the camera. At one point, I lined up my fuselage bulkheads on the floor, sat down over the center section with the control stick in my hand to explain it to them and show them where I'm at in the project, and she jumped down there and sat with me holding the other stick and we made airplane noises for the camera. Silly stuff, but they loved it.

We were all finished at this point and saying our goodbyes. I found out she was at the University of Oregon during the same years I was there. Hard to believe she's over 50!


Here's a hottie little YouTube video clip of her:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8q_T_-6L1c

It will be fun to see where this goes.

[RandyL]

Guilty, I served you up as a good example of a typical builder. From the pic it doesn't appear you're too upset by it though...

They will also be taping at the December breakfast so we're hoping for good weather and lots of planes on the ramp. Attention pilots: if you fly in you'll probably have Sandy interviewing you. I'm sure she wouldn't mind a plane ride either.

[BruceS]

Yeah, you're right, Randy... I didn't mind at all. Thank you! Serve me up anytime. It was a real pleasure meeting her and working on this little project. Hope to see you on the 6th.