January
New NIRA president Bill Ipjian won Adult with his LOC
Ariel. Youth was dominated by Ian Timberlake and his
totally scratch AIM-54A Phoenix, built completely from
recycled materials. Far and away too cool.
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February
It was a toss-up between Ian Timberlake with his Trash
Rocket Dragster and Jon Revelle sporting his
Scrambler. They split Youth honors this month. Adult fell to
Pat Butler and his simple but ultra-clean Quest
Venture.
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March
Bob Kaplow finally takes Adult with his Illudium, a
contest-winning boost glider that Bob has brought in many times but
has only won MotM this once. Heh, heh. Jon Revelle tied up
with Allison Butler for Youth honors. That's Jon's Estes
Photon Probe from an ancient kit. Allison is holding her
Antaire, an Alpha III bash.
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April
Yet Another Family Night. The Butlers cleaned up with
Pat Butler in Adult and Jenna Butler in Youth. Pat is
holding his scale Astrobee 1500 (very tough to build right,
but cake for a modeler like Pat) and Jenna her Princess,
bashed up from an Estes ARF. Decorations are everything.
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May
Pat Butler shows off his VideoRoc while Jon
Revelle displays his Youth-winning V2 bashed out of a
Canadian Arrow. Jon wrote an article on this bash for the forum.
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June
That's NIRA President Bill Ipjian holding his Tim Lehr
Wildman. Youth had yet another tie, this time between Ian
Timberlake with his Visible HPR and Katie Mitchell
with her Green Spirit, a Fat Boy bash.
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July
There stands Chris Cantine displaying his scratch
Cirrostream. In Youth it was another Ian Timberlake/
Katie Mitchell tie. Ian had his very nice Intruder and
Katie her Moon Dart, another Estes kit bash.
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August
Marc Mitchell scattered the competition with his Mitchell
Family Flying Circus, a Rob Edmonds boost glider sporting three
gliders attached to a central booster. Good thing there are four
family members; everybody gets to chase something down. Jimmy
Basile wowed 'em in Youth with his Mad Science Dynamite.
Science!
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September
Once again, the Dynamic Duo of winners (see May). Pat Butler
is showing us his Squirrel Works Spacecruiser FFE while
Jon Revelle gives us a peek at his scratch Shockwave,
named after the former Six Flags roller coaster.
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November
Guess what? Family Night! Here's Marc Mitchell holding up his
Trifecta, very cleanly bashed up from a Fliskits Tres. Jon
Mitchell is showing off his nice Invader Zim, also based
on a Fliskits model. Both of these rockets were very nicely
appointed with custom-made decals. Marc later gave a complete
presentation on custom decals at the December meeting.
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December
It's a split between the Butlers and the Mitchells this time. Yee,
hah! Git yer shotgun, Martha! Pat Butler holds up his Adult
winner, a Little Joe. Once again NIRA proves its love of
scale. In Youth we had Katie Mitchell showing her Golden
Arrow, her first two-stage!
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