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Old Nov 9, 2009 | 5:41 am
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Originally Posted by alex0683de
A quick update:

Freddie had some fun with MRP Alert, including a ride on BA's inaugural LHR-LAS service in late October. He then travelled with MRP Alert for the full Star Mega DO (ORD-EWR on UA, JFK-FRA on LH, FRA-OSL-TLS-FRA on Condor), and greatly enjoyed the special FT charter flights, especially the low approach and fly-by at TLS.

On the final day of the DO, I had the pleasure of presenting a beautiful poster of Freddie Jr.'s flight map, courtesy of shoggoth, co-founder of www.flightmemory.com / www.flugstatistik.de. The basis for the poster can be found, as always, at http://my.flightmemory.com/freddiejr. I had initially intended to give it to Randy himself, but unfortunately he had to leave for London on very short notice early that morning. Tommy777 accepted the poster in his stead, who passed it to SkiAdcock to take to the Moderator Meeting in Munich. Hopefully, it is now on its way to Colorado Springs with its intended recipient.

As for Freddie - he is now in the care of sbm12, headed for New York (by way of LAX, of course ).
The poster was successfully delivered to Randy Sat night at the Mod Dinner. It was a bit difficult to do a 'full presentation' given we were in the middle of a very large beer hall w/ boisterous people (and not all FTers!), but those at Randy's table got to hear how it all came about. Randy was sincerely touched, and kept repeating over & over, "I always wondered how much FreddieJr had traveled; this is wonderful", and loved seeing both the map and the summary of miles at the bottom. So the map is now headed back to COS w/ Randy.

Thanks for doing this Alex! Cheers.
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