Aug 29
Eric sent me a letter the other day with an attached image showing some pins. He wrote he got those pins in 1969 when he was at the Paris Airshow. And two pictures of them brothers having fun in Paris soon followed.
I could only imagine himself, - a young fellow, perhaps fascinated with aviation already, and here he is, - in the focal point of the world aviation - Paris Airshow! At that time I could only dream or read about it, - in ‘Izvestiya‘ newspaper, for example (in our family we never cared about subscription to ‘Pravda‘ 
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Aug 20
Hello, my fellow ‘RA-85123 Fan Club’ members,
Before we open this ‘Tu154 Tech Class’ let me report on what’s going on in and around the Club.
First of first, we expect a few more persons to join our club soon. They will be introduced to you as soon as they appear here. I’ve already had a preliminary talk with some of them.
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Jul 13
In fact I didn’t even push too hard to persuade Eric to join our club. He welcomed the idea at once.
So, we’ve got a Club Member #4.
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Jul 09
Hi, Don,
It is my pleasure to offer you an invitation to join our Club, and I’m sure the other Club Members too would be delighted to have you as a fellow member, - especially when they know of your ‘great deal of involvement and expertise in handling the air traffic consisted mostly of the Soviet-built aircraft’, and the fact that it is you only who (except the Club’s Chairman had an opportunity to ride on a flight deck of the Tu-154 in the year of 2001.
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Jul 03
Memo
From: Chairman
To: ‘RA-85123 Fan Club’ Members: OldDog, Kelly.
Hi, Gentlemen,
Check this out, please, - isn’t it a perfect proof that we have made a right choice of our ‘club’s hero’?!
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Jun 28
Exclusively, for the RA-85123 Fan Club Members, and for the rest of you - to encourage the Club’s Membership growth - we had a chance to sneak onto the plane’s flight deck.
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Jun 27
Whenever I look at this model, an ‘old idea’ of starting a ‘new topic’ emerges, and nudges me again gently, and it seems at this time I’m going to do something with regard to it. OK, here’s what it is: let’s explore the idea of setting up an on-line fan club of devotees (should say ‘Lonely Hearts’ ) to some particular plane, - the Tupolev-154M, reg. # RA-85123.
I proclaim myself as a founder and Chairman, and a ‘Club Member #1′. Who’s next?
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Eric sent me a letter the other day with an attached image showing some pins. He wrote he got those pins in 1969 when he was at the Paris Airshow. And two pictures of them brothers having fun in Paris soon followed.
I could only imagine himself, - a young fellow, perhaps fascinated with aviation already, and here he is, - in the focal point of the world aviation - Paris Airshow! At that time I could only dream or read about it, - in ‘Izvestiya‘ newspaper, for example (in our family we never cared about subscription to ‘Pravda‘ 
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