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Winter Building Sessions NIRA Holiday Party Club News Newsletter of the Northern Illinois Rocketry Association, Volume 23, Number 6 NAR Section #117 November/December 2000 Club News NIRA Holiday Party Winter Building Sessions Club Elections – At the January meeting, NIRA In December NIRA holds it’s annual Holiday These are informal session to build rockets, talk holds an election to decide the club officers for Party. This year David Dornblaser has volun- rocket, look at rockets, or just hang out. Bring the year. teered to open his home. your favorite snacks and a rocket to build. At the November meeting Rick Gaff and Ken Call David at (630) 469-0653 (or email him at January Building Session Hutchinson were re-nominated for their current [email protected]) to RSVP and to let him Bob Kaplow positions. Adam Elliot was nominated to fill the know what sort of munchies you can bring. 35W525 Parsons Rd. Vice President position. Bob Kaplow announced Where: David Dornblaser West Dundee, IL 60118 that he will be stepping down from his position 326 Anthony Street Usually once a year NIRA has a building session as Safety Officer/RSO, with no nominations Glen Ellyn, Illinois 60137 at Bob Kaplow’s. “Bob's Hobby Shoppe” is made for the position. The following is the cur- When: Sunday, Dec 17th 1999, 4 pm to 8 pm worth the trip, as he has a basement full of vari- rent nominations: ous power tools, rocket supplies, built rockets, President – Rick Gaff Bring: A dish to pass and whatever you are unbuilt rockets, plastic models, a large motor Vice President – Adam Elliot drinking. collection… This session usually includes Secretary/Treasurer – Ken Hutchinson RSVP: phone: (630) 469-0653 NIRA’s first flight of the year (in Bob’s back Safety Officer/RSO – open (no nomination) email: [email protected] yard – indoor launches being prohibited by the NAR’s safety code). If you would like to run, or nominate someone Special thanks go out to the Piette family for else, nominations can be made up to the election hosting the party last year and to the Bundick February Building Session at the January meeting. family who hosted the Holiday party for many March Building Session Safety Officer/RSO – The club RSO position is years! $ These sessions still need a home (as of publica- an important one for the club (as are all officer tion). If you’d like to host, please contact Rick positions). Bob Kaplow has done an outstand- Gaff or come to a club meeting. See the Jan/Feb $ ing job, holding the position since its inception, issue for locations and maps. The following is from the club bylaws and out- North Ave. lines the duties and responsibilities of this posi- Algonquin Road (62) tion: Section 5 - Officers St. Charles Rd. Swift West Article E: Safety Officer: The Safety Officer Geneva Rd. Dundee Parsons Rd shall establish and enforce the Association's N range safety and operational procedures, in- Anthony St. cluding execution of qualification tests where required by sport rocketry Safety Codes. The Glen Ellyn Miller Rd Route 31 Kenilworth Ave. Kenilworth Safety Officer may appoint other members to Newton 53 Bob Kaplow assist in the execution of these duties. The Pennsylvania 35W525 Parsons Rd. Safety Officer or his designated alternates Duane St. West Dundee, IL 60118 must possess the appropriate required qualifi- Sleepy Hollow cations to administer any qualification tests. Higgins Road (72) David Dornblaser Civic Center R&D Contest? - Adam Elliot is thinking about 326 Anthony St. holding a club-leveld R&D contest sometime in Glen Ellyn, IL 60137 To Rockford the spring. This would be a NAR sanctioned St. Main Northwest Tollway (I90) competition following the rules of the Pink Roosevelt Rd. Book. (available at www.nar.org) If you would like more information or want to Map to the Holiday Party at David Map to January’s building session at assist, please see Adam. $ Dornblaser’s house. Bob Kaplow’s house. November/December 2000 Page 1 CLUB MEETING DATES North Ave. All meetings start at 7:30 pm. Bring a model for ‘Model of the Month.’ We always need volunteers for St. Charles Rd. Swift N pre-meeting lectures, contact Rick Gaff if you want to Geneva Rd. Volume 23, Number 6 schedule a date. The location is the Glen Ellyn Civic Glen Ellyn Center, 535 Duane Street (usually the 3rd floor, but November/December 2000 Chicago Northwestern RR check the board in the lobby). January 5 Duane St. NIRA Officers 53 President – Rick Gaff February 2 Vice President – Pierre Miller March 2 Civic Parking Secretary/Treasurer – Ken Hutchinson Main St. Center April 6 RSO – Bob Kaplow May 4 Leading Edge Staff June 1 Lombard Rd. Lombard Roosevelt Rd. Editor – Jeff Pleimling July 6 Production – Julie, Beth & Brian Pleimling Wendy's This Issues Contributors CLUB LAUNCH DATES Mark ‘Bunny’ Bundick, 88 Jonathan Charbonneau, Rick Gaff, Launches are BYOL (bring your own launcher). The Tim Johnson, Bob Kaplow location for our launches is the Greene Valley Forest Mark Kotolski, Bob Wiersbe Preserve (see map at right). Call the NIRA infoline for pre-launch information: 630-483-2468. ad Ro December 17 – Holiday Party (details on page 1) son THE LEADING EDGE is published bimonthly Hob by and for members of the Northern Illinois January 21, 2001 – Building Session at Bob Kaplow’s 355 Rocketry Association (NIRA), NAR Section (details on page 1) #117, and is dedicated to the idea that Sport 53 February 18 – Building Session (details TBA) Rocketry is FUN! Parking March 18 – Building Session (details TBA) Articles, plans, photos, other newsletters, and 75th Street news items of interest should be sent to: April 15 – Greene Valley Forest Preserve Rd Greene Jeff Pleimling May 13 – Youth Group Launch at Greene Valley c/o The Leading Edge May 20 – Greene Valley Forest Preserve 245 Superior Circle Greene Valley N June 16-17 – Midwest Regional Fun Fly Bartlett, IL 60103-2029 Forest Preserve or emailed to [email protected] Photos will be returned, other material returned upon requested. Any item appearing in the Leading Edge may be reprinted by Sport Rocketry Magazine with proper credit given; all other uses require prior written permission of the Northern Illinois Rock- etry Association. Send membership applications (dues: $6 per youth, $8 per adult, $12 per family, including a six issue subscription to the Leading Edge), non- member subscriptions ($10 per six issues), and change of address notification to: Ken Hutchinson 82 Talcott Avenue Crystal Lake, IL 60014-4541 NIRA’s web site is at: http://nira.chicago.il.us/ Model of the Month Winners! (Rick Gaff photos) October – Mark Soppet won the youth category with a boost glider and Cal Justice won adult with an Orbital Transport. November – A tie in the adult category between Norm Dziedzic’s Mini Endeavor and Greg Cisko’s Estes Honest John, Tim Cordes was the sole winner in youth with the Quest Courier he built for a science fair project. Page 2 The Leading Edge, Vol 23, No. 6 2000 Hobby Show Report G80 will be available from PML. The new CPR- Aerotech by Bob Kaplow NAR #18L 3000 system was also on display. Had their full line of kits, motors, RMS, and hybrid products on display. Of course they were (photos by Rick Gaff and Bob Kaplow) Holverson is now part of Fun Rockets, and all the balsa has featuring their new FirstFire ignitor replacing the been replaced by foam. Other than that, the copperhead. They also plan on introducing HPR Normally I spend 2 days at the show, working product line appears about the same as last year. kits suitable for certification and sport flying half of each day in the make-it take-it booth, and soon. Now available is the Rolf Rench for use on the other half wandering the show to report here. the 18/24/29mm RMS casings. Coming in 2001 This time family obligations limited me to essen- is Redline propellant with “unique liftoff charac- tially one day, so I really didn’t get to spend as teristics for larger airframes”. Black Max will be much time digging into the tools and gadgets as coming to RMS motors soon. usual. Sorry about that folks. Extreme Rocketry Quest Was displaying their magazine. I finally got to I was surprised and pleased to see Dane Boles at meet Brent McNeely, and had a nice chat with the show, but he left before I could chat with him. It seems he offered to take over HPR for him in detail. I did speak with Frank Chernek, Bruce, but was turned down. Bruce’s loss is our who will be the new head of the rocket product gain. The magazine was also prominently dis- line. Quest definitely has plans to improve and played in the Aerotech booth. Not a copy of expand the product line. New starter kits are HPR was seen at the show. built around their “best cheap launch controller Estes in the industry” and the old Nike fin unit. The all new Estes “Physical Attack Droid” re- Fun Rockets (formerly Holverson) on display places last years “Verbal Assault Craft”. This striking new product will grab you and practi- Apogee cally knock you off your feet with its excitement, Of course had the biggest news for the show: sound, and fury, despite its relatively small size their huge 1/70 scale Saturn V and 1B. The dis- and insignificance, or its arresting behavior. Bat- play models were work in progress, but looked tery included! Void where prohibited by law. pretty cool. I notes a sign that said something Several old rockets return, from the Mean Ma- like “no Ready To Fail rockets here” :-) chine ($25), Comanche-3 ($17), Saturn-V ($75), Bill from BMS was hiding around the Apogee Redstone, Black Brant (with recommended D12- booth most of the weekend.
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