Acro Camp Casting Almost Complete; Principal Photography to Take Place May 12-16

Just a quick update. We've selected our four primary cast members ("campers") and several alternates and we're just waiting for the selected campers to confirm that they're in.

As of a few minutes ago, we've sent an e-mail to every applicant, whether selected as a camper, selected as an alternate, or not selected.

We've also confirmed the dates for the camp (and principal

The selection process was awful in the very best way. Don, Barry, and I suffered through a plague of riches as we reviewed your application and others and agonized over whom to interview and whom to choose. You should know by now that I mean it when I say that there were sparks of brilliance in each application. (Otherwise, I wouldn’t say it.)

Don and Barry are each new to new-media audiences. They’re catching on quickly, but neither of them really understood what a rabid and sophisticated tribe aviation podcast listeners are. Needless to say, the application package took them both by surprise and kind of rocked them back on their heels a little. Like me, Don and Barry were each humbled by the amount of time and energy that you put into your application and each of the three of us dug through the whole package with awe and (I’ll say it again) humility.

I really wish that we could have brought everyone into the hangar, stuffed them into airplanes, and then rolled them out. But this is necessarily a small-group thing. For what it’s worth, each camper who was selected had to get over the hurdle that I placed in front of them, to-wit: Would he or she be an adequate and worthy proxy for people like you who weren’t selected?

Please stay tuned here and follow both me (@StephenForce) and the #AcroCamp hashtag on Twitter for updates. And there’ll be plenty of podcasting about this as we get closer to, during, and after principal photography May 12-16.

My task now is to capture this whole thing in a way that’s worthy of the energy and support that has so readily flowed from applicants, new-media personalities, aviation illuminati, and others. So many people have placed their belief and trust in Airspeed and you can be assured that I’m going to bend over backward to produce a product worthy of the excitement that it’s causing.