On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 03:30:24 +0000, acepilot wrote:

R U sure?

Grew up in Fargo, went to North Dakota State University in Fargo.

I wasn't aware that NWA flew into Moorhead (or is the Fargo
airport really located across the border into Minnesota?)...anyway, they
didn't make a movie called Moorhead (except possible an adult movie) so
nobody would've gotten the joke

Fargo and Moorhead are twin cities, with Fargo on the North Dakota side of
the Red River of the North, and Moorhead on the Minnesota side. Hector
Field, the airport the airlines fly into, is in north Fargo. It actually
is right across the street from the NDSU campus...I used to fly between
classes.

The NWA pilots got schnockered at the Speakeasy, a lounge/restaurant in
south Moorhead. Was my favorite "fancy" restaurant, back when I lived
there. Had a bullet-ridden Ford in the lobby that was supposedly formerly
owned by Dillinger or some other famous gangster of the '30s. Think the
place closed a few years back.

Warping the discussion closer to the Subject line, I believe they filmed
some of the winter scenes for the John Wayne movie "Jet Pilot" at Hector
Field in Fargo.

And to put some homebuilding content into this, Fargo is just a few miles
West of Cassleton, where the ND state EAA fly-in is held every August.
It's also the home for the world's only flying full-scale ME-109 replica (a
homebuilt, of course).

Ron Wanttaja