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Dave Leininger

Certification Level:
Tripoli L3
Tripoli MN Prefect
Tripoli TAP
Personal Altitude Record:
10,000+ feet AGL
Group Altitude Record:
21,000+ feet AGL
First Rocket Flight:
Late 70′s
First High Power Rocket Flight:
1997
A few of my rockets:
Quasar (PML)
Pterdactyl Jr.
Wahoo
The Pickle
The Atomic Pickle
Major Flatgellation
Rockets I’m building:
“The Record Setter” (Look out Steve)

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Bill Assimes

Certification Level:
Tripoli L3
Personal Altitude Record:
21,563 feet AGL
Group Altitude Record:
18,000 feet AGL
First Rocket Flight:
July 2006
First High Power Rocket Flight:
late 70′s
Age:
46
Day Job:
Business Consultant
Other Hobbies & Interests:
Motorcycle runs (organizing and riding)
Teaching pottery
My Favorite Rockets:
Kronos (scratch, 3″ all carbon fiber)
idart (scratch, 1.5″ minimum diameter)
Nano Dart (scratch, 1.1″ minimum diameter)
Gizmo (PR)
Nimbus (PML)

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Brian Elfert

Certification Level:
Tripoli L3
Personal Altitude Record:
12,000 feet AGL
Group Altitude Record:
21,000 feet AGL
First Rocket Flight:
Early 80′s
First High Power Rocket Flight:
2000
Age:
36
Day Job:
Server Administrator
Other Hobbies & Interests:
A bus to travel to rocket launches in.
My Favorite Rockets:
Flying Spool of Death
Big Yeller
Unnamed (38mm minimum diameter)
Unnamed (4″ minimum diameter)
Old Yeller (RIP in a Nebraska farm field)

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Tim Covey

Certification Level:
Tripoli L2
Personal Altitude Record:
52,000 feet AGL
First Rocket Flight:
1976
First High Power Rocket Flight:
1997
Age:
43
Day Job:
Rocket Builder
Other Hobbies & Interests:
Bartending
My Favorite Rockets:
I don’t name my rockets, only numbers.
Rockets I’m building:
Hybrid 4.5-5
Hybrid 4.5-6
Tens of other rockets in the works.

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Tom Tweit

Certification Level:
Tripoli L2
Personal Altitude Record:
8,700 feet AGL
Group Altitude Record:
21,000+ feet AGL
First High Power Rocket Flight:
1999
First Rocket Flight:
1993
Age:
61
Day Job:
Retired
(Electrician & Semi Driver)
Other Hobbies & Interests:
Trap & Skeet Shooting
Bowling
Golf
Some of My Favorite Rockets:
4th of July Special
America Standing Tall
Shredder
Gizmo
3 stage cone
Flying Crayon of Death

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Rob Grygar

Certification Level:
Tripoli L3
Personal Altitude Record:
10,000 feet AGL
First High Power Rocket Flight:
2004
First Rocket Flight:
Early 70′s
Rockets left in the stable:
Miranda (PML)

Initiator (AT)

Tuff Stuff (scratch)
Rockets I’m building:
Unnamed 4″ for Hypertek motors
Unnamed 7.5″ L3 w/ Dual Deploy out the top

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Steve Anderson

Certification Level:
Tripoli L3
Personal Altitude Record:
20,892 feet AGL
Group Altitude Record:
18,000+ feet AGL
First High Power Rocket Flight:
2005
First Rocket Flight:
1989
Age:
32
Day Job:
Automotive Engineer
Other Hobbies & Interests:
Hockey Player
Expert Class Motorcycle Racer
My Favorite Rockets:
iRocket (4″x7′)
Bad Beehavior (3″x58″)

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Photo of Scott's daughter Alexys with many rockets

Scott Jones

Certification Level:
Tripoli L2
Personal Altitude Record:
4,300 feet AGL
Group Altitude Record:
18,000+ feet AGL
First Rocket Flight:
Mid 70′s
First High Power Rocket Flight:
2008
Age:
40
Day Job:
Construction
Other Hobbies & Interests:
Radio Control
Electronics
Computers
Video Games
Photography and Video
Classic Cars
Guns
Sound Systems
My Favorite Rockets:
Crayons (2) (TT)
Loc IV
EZI-65
HI-TECH 45 (LOC)


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Greg Oseid

Certification Level:
Tripoli L2
Personal Altitude Record:
5,493 feet AGL
First High Power Rocket Flight:
May 2008
First Rocket Flight:
August 2007
Age:
40
Day Job:
Information Technology
Other Hobbies & Interests:
Biking
My Rockets:
Cyclotron Deux (Modified LOC)
Rockets I’m building:
Brogan (scratch)
AMRAAM 4 (PML)
Stripe (PR Gizmo)
Agent Smith (scratch)

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Pat Arneson

Certification Level:
Tripoli L2
Personal Altitude Record:
6,773 feet AGL
First Rocket Flight:
Late 70′s
First High Power Rocket Flight:
May 2008
Age:
43
Day Job:
Chief Technical Officer
Other Hobbies & Interests:
Electronics
Mountain biking
Sailing
Kayaking

My Rockets:
JFTDT (scratch)
Thugenstein (Binder Thug)
Rock Hard (scratch)

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Michael Koppelman

Certification Level:
Tripoli L2
Personal Altitude Record:
12,108 feet AGL
First High Power Rocket Flight:
2009
My Rockets:
Canis Minor
Cindy Loo Hoo

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