[Collins] Couple Photos from Collins Users Conference in Dallas

[Freeberg, Scott (STP)]

Mac and list, Well the way I figure it, you guys are kneeling because you and Pete's muscular football player physique would block the other guys from view :))  Pete Z. just sent me the .jpg so I'll post that on my webpage so I can share it with others. 

Yeah I had forgotten about the 9/11 aspect of it.  I remember being really creeped out throughout the whole airline flight down.  People were scared.  And you could see it on the plane, everyone suspiciously eyeing up the other folks on the flight.  I even updated my will.  Now thats committment :))   A guy that I was going down with cancelled out post 9/11.  Sure couldn't blame him.  Glad I went though.  The camaraderie was great!  After dinner we would sit in the hotel lobby with a group of people and just talk about restoration, alignment, history, parts, performance, etc.  We talked with Bill Carns late into one night about the KWS-1 and restoration of it. Talking to the experts sure beats reading an article.  I got to actually see Jim Stitzengers Collins Van in operation. I shook Warren Bruene's hand.  I felt like a Collins genius by the time it was over!  I don't feel like a genius anymore so maybe its time for another :))))  I think the last Cedar Rapid big event happened just as I was getting into Collins so I missed it.  That one sounded like the biggest Collins event ever.

I sort of heard something in passing last month, that there was a discussion (maybe last year) about having another Collins gathering in Cedar Rapids but it was not pursued due to lack of interest.  I never heard anything about that.  Maybe it was just rumor.

Ya know, I still have my CUC mug sitting in the shack, my CUC badge hanging on the wall, and I still use my Collins ceramic coffee cup I got from Bob Peters. 
73, Scott WA9WFA