| What happens when a reality television show collides with an infomercial-type product commercial? Focus Rally: America, a web-based, 18-minute video presentation that uses a nationwide, scavenger hunt-type competition to promote sales of the Ford Focus automobiles.
Stage Seven of the Rally brought contestants to Pleasant Valley Airport near Phoenix, Arizona, where the contestants took part in a wingwalking-oriented challenge. Producers developed a game in which contestants rode on the top of ICAS member Hartley Folstad’s Stearman biplane flown by ICAS member Lee Oman as they read a “secret message” spelled out on the top of the wing of ICAS member Jon Melby’s Pitts Special. ICAS member Margie Stivers provided training to the wingwalking contestants.
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