ANCHORAGE - At Lake Hood, with a north wind blowing just nippy enough to remind us what's coming, Howard "Mike" Hunt climbed into the cockpit of a blazing-yellow AT-6 Harvard warbird. Dressed in his old World War II pilot's uniform...

...hardware store. Apparently, under the floors of the old building are remnants of Model-T ford parts, according to Mike Hunt. Hunt could tell stories about every square inch of the store, especially the old wall filled with sawdust, because...