January
Another night of scale models at NIRA. Newly elected NIRA president
Rick Gaff won adult with his Mercury-Atlas. (Naturally,
he won -- he counted the hands. It mattered little that he got all the
votes). Matthew Duckworth won Youth with his
Nike-Apache.
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February
Joe Nowak took Adult with his really cute Boyce Aerospace 1/100
scale Mercury-Redstone and John McCallum took Youth with
his nicely done Estes Sidewinder.
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March
Tom Pastrick was the hands down winner in Adult with his new
and improved Topkat. John McCallum was the back-to-back
winner in Youth with his Estes Little Joe II.
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April
Kimber Guzik beat out her husband John's Blackhawk (and had to
sleep on the couch) in Adult with her nicely finished Bullet.
Meanwhile, Mark Soppet won in Youth with his equally nicely
finished Sizzler.
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May
"Bullet" Bob Kaplow won Adult with his RalphCo
Flying Crayon and Matthew Duckworth won Youth his
impressive 4H Championship-winning S1A Archer.
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June
It's Scale Night! Bob Wiersbe won Adult with his Centuri
Little Joe II and Pierre Miller won Youth with his
MX-774 Hiroc.
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July
It's a family affair. John "Waldo" Guzik won
in Adult with his Nike Ajax (a Launch Pad kit). Michael
"Wow, I didn't lose my rocket" Guzik won Youth with his
LOC Aura, which he had launched the week before at NCNF on an
Aerotech F50!
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August
The ever-fine-rocket-producing Mark Soppet won in Youth while
most of the club was off at NARAM-40. (That rocket may be an Estes
Twister, although knowing Mark, it could be an HL-20 lifting body.)
Adult winner is unknown.
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September
Yet again another Scale night at NIRA Model of the Month. Tom
Pastrik was the surprise (heh, heh) Adult winner with his
scratch built Bomarc. That's the 3rd place NARAM-40 C Division
Scale trophy Tom is holding he had received just the month before for
his Bomarc. Nick Piette won in Youth with his nicely done Estes
Sidewinder.
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October
That's NIRA president (and MotM vote counter) Rick Gaff with
his NCR Interceptor G. John McCullum swept Youth with
his Estes Juno C. (NIRA really loves scale.)
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November
Norm "The Building Superintendent" Dziedzic
and his scale John Hancock Center. We have a promise of plans
for The Leading Edge, so we anticipate edifice drag races at an
upcoming NIRA launch. Daniel McCullum was the hands down Youth
winner with his finely finished Estes Dart.
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December
That's Norm "Odd Roc" Dziedzic and his
Flying Dutch Boy. Norm got stained with disapproval for this
unpainted model, but rolled over the competition to barely cover the
Adult division. The "body" tube is 3 paint rollers and for
fins Norm used four paint brushes. Mark Soppet won in Youth
with his modified Falcon. This was the second time Mark has
brought a Falcon for MOM, although this time he didn't trim the glider
with the "help" of Tom Pastrick -- and break a wing.
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