That sure is a happy looking fella in that second photo.
Good for you Jim, and I'm sure your public vote of thanks to those that
helped you will not go unappreciated. Break a leg in Denver.
Dan Kitching
----- Original Message -----
From: "James V. Bacus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Jim McCarthy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2003 9:45 PM
Subject: [RCSE] Phoenix - from the ashes
> 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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