Food Network-"Challenge: Cartoon Cakes"-N808TT

I get frequent requests for use of my copyrighted photos on this site. Many aircraft owners use one of my photos for their computer desktop background image with my permission. Others of my photos have appeared in aircraft magazines, newspapers, television news programs and other television specials including one on the Discovery Channel. My only web photos of N240R, the Bellanca 8KCAB Super Decathlon that adventurer Steve Fossett went missing in resulted in over 90 world-wide media requests for use permission the day he went overdue on his fatal last flight.

Probably the most unique photo request recently received was from the a Program Producer for the Food Network on television. Requested was use of one of my photos of N808TT, a Pitts Biplane in side view, in order to make a cake in its shape as a gift. I replied to the producer that such a request "Takes the Cake" in terms of uniqueness.

You can see the resultant biplane cake and my photo of it on the Food Network program "Challenge: Cartoon Cakes" on this Thursday, 11 March 2010 scheduled for 10 p.m. eastern time and at 7 p.m. Pacific Time. Other sections of the USA-check your local television schedule. I will be watching the one hour show on Channel 55 Time-Warner cable at 7 p.m. in SoCaL Thursday night. Stay tuned for any possible schedule change.

Sorry about that! The Challenge; Cartoon Cakes Food Channel Show on TV tonight at 7 p.m. did NOT build a Pitts biplane cake, but the channel has two more Cakes shows at 10 p.m. and 10 p.m. tonight West Coast of America time. So, I will endeavor to monitor those for what the show producer emailed would be on evening of 11 March 2010.

The Food Network TV show of the biplane cake modeled (loosely) after the Pitts N808TT was shown at 10 p.m. to 10 p.m. on 11 March 2010 in SoCal.

Per the request of the custome who gave the cake as a gift, the cake also was on an edible runway with side lighting and an edible dog perched on the top wing. Presentation was made to a woman pilot with cancer in a touching scene. Color scheme of the cake fairly accurately followed that of N808TT.

The N number on the cake, (one side only), inexplicably, was N1ESCM, which certainly wouldn't pass muster with our FAA. My photo of N808TT used to model the biplane cake was shown early and briefly-if you blinked, you might have missed that. But, it was all in fun for a good cause, and the recipient was thrilled.