[RCSE] Phoenix - from the ashes

[James V. Bacus]

Just last week on Monday, I was looking at going to Denver next week for 
the F3J team selections and my F3J quiver was reduced to broken 
parts.  This is a terrible feeling, I had worked so hard to put some nice 
models together and practice with for the team selects and they all had 
been stuffed.  I was involved in a launch accident in Dayton that piled in 
my second ICON Lite in just 3 weeks.

But I am lucky man, I have true friends in our community.

Jim McCarthy fixed things that I didn't think could be fixed, two times 
around.  And built a new ICON in record time for me to use, never failing 
to continually mention how slow I build.  Robin Meek, Capn' Jack and Doug 
Barry all offered me their ICON's to borrow, and I actually have Robin's 
and Jack's here.  And Don Peters at Maple Leaf Design got me the parts I 
needed, his models are so modular that I was able to build, piece together 
and setup these models exactly like my previous models.

These two pictures are very special to me, it's still a blur how I got to 
having these three models ready to contest in less than a week, a lot of 
things fell into place that only friends could make happen, but I am ready 
for F3J in Denver, these models are all setup and ready to rock, here is my 
quiver (3 different blends of ICON).
http://www.jimbacus.net/soaring/3times.jpg
http://www.jimbacus.net/soaring/3times1.jpg

Thanks to Jim McCarthy again, and Tom Kallevang and Capn' Jack and Robin 
Meek and everyone that kept my head in the game over the last week.  I 
would have never made it alone.

Jim
Downers Grove, IL
Member of the Chicago SOAR club,  AMA 592537    LSF 7560 Level IV
ICQ 6997780    R/C Soaring blog at www.jimbacus.net
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