EAA Aviation Center: A New Beginning (1983) [pdf]

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This is an article by Henry M. Ogrodzinski, posted in «Sport Aviation» 32(10) & «Vintage Airplane» 11(11), dedicated to the opening on EAA Aviation Center (aka EAA Aviation Museum[0]) on July 30, 1983.

Quote from an article:

> As a United States Army Guard raised an American flag on the pole in front of the Aviation Center, Bob Collins[0] informed Paul, and those who had assembled, that the flag was the same one which had draped the coffin of Peter Poberezny, Paul's father.

N.B. Peter, Paul's father & Tom's grandfather, born in Terebovlia, a small Ukrainian town in Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine.[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EAA_Aviation_Museum

[1] https://mstdn.social/@Bcollinsmn

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Poberezny#Early_life

UPD: Bob Collins[0] (he done some work for EAA Radio) corrected me:

> different Bob Collins. That Bob Collins was later killed in a midair[1]

> we were both in the radio business. Both pilots. Both in the Midwest. But he was the famous one.[2]

Here is a Bob Collins (broadcaster) mentioned in the article.[3]

[0] https://mstdn.social/@Bcollinsmn/110770469781173100

[1] https://mstdn.social/@Bcollinsmn/110804927016032553

[2] https://mstdn.social/@Bcollinsmn/110805181367391087

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Collins_%28broadcaster%29

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