"Kevin Dunlevy" wrote in message
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The 60-year-old pilot who left Bismarck ND bound for Fergus Falls MN was
found in a slough. I spent four days co-piloting a Gippsland Airvan
looking for him. The English born pilot remarked that our search area was
roughly the size of England. We had 15 planes looking for him for about
two weeks. I thought the missing pilot might be in a slough. The water in
the prairie potholes was so green we couldn't see anything beneath the
surface, and nobody spotted any oil slicks in the slimy water.
I went to the air museum in Fargo when I had some down time during the
search. A crop duster at a tiny (two cows and one horse) North Dakota town
had a poster for Flyboys, attesting to the marketing effort for the film.
At first I wasn't sure if the movie poster was for a new movie, or an old
movie appropriate for the décor of the crop duster's office. The crop
duster has several biplane crop dusters with huge radial engines in
various states of repair. He used a turboprop monoplane for work. A FBO at
a larger airport was lovingly restoring three P-51 Mustangs. He gave us
the keys to his car without hesitation to go to town for dinner.
I bet I am the only North Dakota born pilot in this newsgroup. The bet is
for a beer and a meal, in Grand Forks or Fargo. Being pilot trained at UND
doesn't win the bet, unless you played hockey for UND too. KD
http://www.startribune.com/462/story/719089.html




If my memory is correct Isn't there a place in ND that makes parts for the
P51 and has most of the original tooling?