[LASS Soaring] "My LSF5 2 Hour!!!"

[GordySoar at aol.com]

Didn't happen :-(
 
Okay here's what did happen....
 
I got the feeling that this was going to be an LSF task type day of  air.  
All the indicators were there, and since I'd just got back from  Venezuela, I 
didn't have much work to do which meant some playing hooky was  justified :-)
 
I contacted Tony Utley and picked up Little Lee for witnesses, Tony is LSF2  
and Lee is LSF2 (you need at least two LSF 2's to witness).
 
I picked up Lee at Ed Wilson's house and he brought the Spirit Elite 100  
full house ship which Ed had helped him put together.
 
Tony brought his Graupner Winch (just enough to get a Supra up).
 
I had hoped to be out there by 11 but by the time we got there and set up  it 
was already 1pm.
 
Ed uses a Stylus and Lee is a JR 9303 kind of guy, so Ed is not  familiar 
with its programing, so as a result the set up was creative to say the  least.  I 
spent the next hour zeroing linkages, plugging things into the  right slots 
and setting throws and mixes.
 
By that time it was already after 2pm.  I did a trim flight on his  ship and 
then put him up with it.  We had a talking timer set for 31mins  and got him 
his hat a bottle of water, a hat and a chair.  He hooked up  almost immediately 
and so I went to work checking out my World's Heaviest Carbon  Supra Lite. 
for its 2hour task.
 
Well Lee's 30 didn't work out about 5 or 6 launches worth, which kept me  
distracted and the time passing.
 
Finally I put the Supra up and proceeded to spec out.  An hour passed  and I 
was sitting nicely at about 2,100', which means the Supra is a  disappearing 
dot in the haze of today's sky.  Pretty much no worries in any  case....looked 
like this one was gonna be history when my cell rings....
 
Yep, 'She Who Must Be Obey'd' is on the phone wondering where I am and why  I 
am not there so we can pick up the new washer/dryer we had planned to get at  
4pm!!!!!

Damn I looked at the time and it was already 3:45!
 
The dead silence of my cell phone made it pretty clear that God didn't want  
me to finish out that flight, so I zoomed down, caught it, stripped and packed 
 it and drove like heck to get home...of course acting like it was no big 
deal  the whole time.... which didn't work out all that well. :-(
 
So my LSF status is the same....everything but my wins still on the  docket.
 
2 hours is a lonnnnng time!
 
Gordy



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