Northern Illinois Rocketry Association
Model of the Month: 1997

August

Jonathan "Superman" Charbonneau stands next to his impressive Wac-Corporal, the hands-down winner in Adult. C.R. Herrig won in Youth with his Mongoose, his first 2 stager!!

September

Rick Gaff won in Adult with his scratch built Aerobee-Hi (later launched at SMURFF II in Muncie). Bryan Chesi win in Youth with his Strong Arm.

October

It's the Attack of the Clones! (With apologies to George Lucas.) John Guzik won Adult with his nicely done Estes Super Vega clone. Pierre Miller won Youth with his very nice scratch built clone of the Estes USS Cassiopeia.

November

Steve Smith won in Adult with his beautiful Boyce Aerospace 1/17.5 scale Mercury-Redstone (which he later launched for the first time at NSL 98 in Muncie, IN) and Matthew Duckworth took Youth with his outstanding Equinox.

December

Nice guy Steve Smith won with his handsome Gemini DC. Steve also wrote a story on finishing techniques he used on this rocket for The Leading Edge. Pierre "Scale" Miller won Youth with his ACLM Cruise Missile.