Northern Illinois Rocketry Association
Model of the Month: 2001

January

That Soppet kid wins again?!? This month Mark Soppet displays a model he built for this physics class. Dave Ketchledge brought in his scratch built Delta Clipper sporting hundreds of hand cut tiles and took home the Adult award.

February

Greg Cisko shows off his Estes Mercury-Atlas. Alex Wallis wins our Youth class with his Estes Rattler 7.

March

It's North Coast by Estes Month! Dean Hemmingson shows his fiberglassed NCR Lance Beta and Joe Provenzano displays his Youth-winning NCR Patriot.

April

Adult winner Loni Howard with his PML IO (named 'My First "Missile"') along side Youth winner Victoria House with her Estes FireFlash.

May

Dave Ketchledge with his PML Bullpup in Adult and Victoria House with her Estes X-Ray in Youth.

June

Ryan Ochs displays his winning Youth entry -- an excellently finished Estes Fat Boy. The Adult winner is Stella Howard with "Tryptophan," a very modified Maxi Alpha 3.

July

Mark Soppet's Estes Python was the winning Youth entry while Adam Elliot's scratch built Delta II was the winning Adult entry.

August

Cally Soukup won the Adult category with her Custom SAM-X while Alex Wallis captured the Youth category with his LOC 'Lil Nuke.

September

Victoria House's Estes Mean Machine won her the Youth category while Joe Franck's scratch built X-1 won him the Adult category.

October

Youth winner Riley Montag hold his Estes Eliminator alongside Kevin Keehn with his Ring Leader (originally from Enterprise Rockets, now available from Fat Cat Rockets).

November

Bob Kaplow holds his scratch built Milkbone. Victoria House holds her Aerotech Aerospike that she built at the Hobby Show and is now signed by Homer Hickam.

December

David Wallis poses with his L2 certification rocket -- a 2.5X upscale of his son Alex's LOC 'Lil Nuke. Called, "Big Nuke," it sports a 54mm main engine mount with three 29mm outboards. The certification flight was a success! There were no youth entries.