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Mangieri, Michael    (Reisterstown, Maryland) - Last update: 2010 Certification Level: L2 NAR Club Member of: MDRA Favorite Rocket: Talon and the THOR-X Favorite Quote: "Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Albert Einstein Home Page: Click Here Club Site: Click Here Started back in the '60s with the Estes kits. Then, after a break during my college days returned to rocketry in 2000. Now I deal almost exclusively with High Power - building my own designs, upscales (the Mustang 2x upscale in the photo) and awaiting my L3 certification attempt with the Talon-6 in April 2010. I enjoy clustered airstarts, long burns, and staging. A 4x Mustang upscale is also in the works!

Martin, Jamie    (Scotland - UK) - Last update: 2009 Favorite Rocket: Saturn 1B Favorite Quote: Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. I started rocketry in 2008, my first launch was the Estes Alpha III. Since then i have built a number of estes, semroc and Dr Zooch kits.

McConnell, Patrick    (Connecticut - USA) - Last update: 2009 Certification Level: L2 NAR/TRA Club Member of: CATO, METRA, MDRA Club Site: Click Here A typical BAR who began flying again when my son was old enough. I was expecting small model rockets and saw examples of how the hobby has changed. Now I am hooked and having a great time.

McCrate, Scott    (Cincinnati) - Last update: 2008 AKA: Scooter Club Member of: NAR, QUARK section 624 Favorite Rocket: Little Joe II Favorite Quote: "Take my advice, I'm not using it." Club Site: Click Here Way back in 1995 I was checking out the magazine rack at a local book store and found the Fall copy of Sport Rocketry. The last time I had seen that rocket mag it had been titled Model Rocketry. This issue had a cover shot of a Little Joe II in flight and that being maybe my favorite rocket of all time, I was hooked. Again. Rocketry is a recurrent thing with me...like malaria, and just as feverish. These last few years the fever has largely been beat into submission by the family purchase of a boat (water is fun, but fire is better). Now there's only so much time on the weekends and the family has their hooks in me to be Capt'n Scooter (younger brother to Capt'n Crunch). Anyway, my best rocketry weekend was NSL '98 in Muncie. It was truly a rocketry Woodstock and I had a blast! I even got a cameo in the PBS documentary that was filmed there that weekend. In the following years I did all the NARCONs hosted by WOOSH in Racine and they were pretty great but I never attended a NARAM--even though my own home club hosted it a couple of years back--hanging my head in shame. I know I'll get bit again or rather the rocketry microbe will once again run amok in my brain stem and I'll start mining the giant pile of kits I collected over the last 13 years. Till then, Pointy end up, smoky end down!

McFadden, Mike    (Denton, TX) - Last update: 2008 AKA: TXEagle Certification Level: L2 TRA Club Member of: DARS Favorite Rocket: Hyperloc 835 Favorite Quote: What you do with the dash on your tombstone is more important than the years. Club Site: Click Here I'm one of those BARs, I flew several as a kid and built a few more starting in about 2002. In Feb 2007 I really got hooked and went hog wild. I obtained the level 1 cert in April of 2007 and level 2 in Sept. I plan to get my level 3 at LDRS 27. I haven't met a rocket that I didn't like, my garage will attest to that.

McFerren, Ron    (Aurora, CO) - Last update: 2010 AKA: NU_Blackshirts Club Member of: NAR, C.R.A.S.H. Favorite Rocket: Quest Nike-K Club Site: Click Here My interest in rocketry started when I toured the Estes facilities back in 1972. I was only 4 years old at the time. I remember getting to launch a couple of rockets at the end of the tour. It was probably an omen that the 2nd launch ended up in some power lines! I started building my own rockets when I was 10. But, stopped as I got into my high school years. Became a BAR about 5 years ago, and like many other BAR's, my hobby has turned into an obsession!

Meyer, Marlin    (Indianapolis) - Last update: 2009 AKA: Marlin523 Club Member of: AMOREA Favorite Rocket: Saturn V I've enjoyed rocketry as a hobby since the 80's. Shared the hobby with my son and now my three grandsons. I probably enjoy designing and building as much as launching.

Michaelson, Buddy    (Bloomington, MN) - Last update: 2008 AKA: Rocketman Home Page: Click Here Son of Ky's and future "Rocketman", Inventor, and Adventurer Buddy has built lots of rockets by himself at the age of eight. The picture is one he built out of his cardboard a-b-c building blocks it has a 38mm motor mount in it. Buddy Rocketman Michaelson is the youngest person in the world to operate a Rocket Powered vehicle. Keep your eye on this site, Buddy will soon unveil his most spectacular rocket powered vehicle that will put him in the record books again.

Michaelson, Ky    (Bloomington, MN) - Last update: 2008 AKA: Rocketman Certification Level: L3+ Home Page: Click Here Owner of Rocketman Enterprises, Inventor, and Adventurer Inventing came to Michaelson at a young age. His father was an engineer and taught him a few things about electronics. Ky took that knowledge and built himself a small transistor radio, which he hid in a cut-out schoolbook. Reading was a struggle, but listening to local radio was a pleasant way to pass the day. When the teacher finally discovered the hidden device, he was not angry. But he wanted to know where the child had gotten it. When Ky said he made it, the teachers—his own quickly informed the others—were floored. This small and quiet boy was not dumb. He was bored. They encouraged him to bring in other inventions, and he obliged. As most children are, Michaelson was drawn to pictures. One he still remembers well was in a book his father gave him. It was from the 1920s and showed a man in a leather helmet sitting on a chair mounted to a rocket. The next picture showed the same man lying on the ground, smoldering. The caption said, “and he lived to tell about it.” The image of a rocket found a welcome home in Ky’s mind. Over the decades it would grow into visions of many rocket-powered vehicles. See Ky's Full Bio HERE

Michielssen, Hans "Chris"    (Florida - USA) - Last update: 2009 AKA: Major Giuliani Favorite Rocket: Goblins! Favorite Quote: "Practice Makes Close!" Home Page: Click Here Club Site: Click Here I started in the hobby in 1969. Most competitions then were mailed-in entries for the Estes Craftsmanship Contest and Centuri photo Contest. Last Summer our local RSO gave me a "Head Up!" warning for my winning EMRR Odd-Ball entry the (S)Hot Dog, a flying hot dog. In December, 2008 I put a new website online: www.howtobuildmodelrockets.20m.com It's meant for returning BARs and first timers needing LPR construction answers. I tried to hit on finer points that most instructions don't cover. For the past 30 years I've been entertaining for any theme park that has the nerve to hire me. I'm now doing an intrumental/comedy act in the cruise industry. My show website: www.chrismichaels.20m.com

Midkiff, Sam    (West Lafayette, Indiana - USA) - Last update: 2009 Certification Level: L1 NAR Club Member of: NAR, IRS Home Page: Click Here Club Site: Click Here My first rocket was an Estes Scout, ordered from the back of Boy's Life. 40+ years later and I've L1 certed using a LOC EZI-65, and had a lot of fun in between. I fly mainly low/mid-power.

Miller, David    (Wisconsin - USA) - Last update: 2008 AKA: Sirius Rocketry Certification Level: L2 NAR, L2 Tripoli Club Member of: NAR 28800, TRA 2483 Favorite Rocket: Saturns both large and small Home Page: Click Here Been in rocketry every since my Dad brought home a copy of George Flynn's "Model Rocketry" Magazine in 1969. Built several large-scale USS Atlantis models featured in High Power Rocketry. Run Sirius Rocketry, LLC, which is entering it's 10th year in business. Love scale, futuristic sci-fi kits, gliders, hybrids, low-power, high-power, you name it!

Miller, Eric    (Washington - USA) - Last update: 2009 Favorite Rocket: Estes' Big Bertha I started in Sport Rocketry in the late seventies. I enjoyed the hobby but left it until 1998. That is when I became a B.A.R. See Eric's Featured Reviewer Interview.

Miller, Kath    (Lenox, MI) - Last update: 2009 AKA: Rocketlady Certification Level: TRA L3 Club Member of: NAPAS, JMRC Favorite Rocket: Fiddle Faddle Home Page: Click Here Club Site: Click Here I started in rocketry ten years ago never having even known the hobby existed! I've been hooked ever since. My favourite rockets are my Fiddle Faddles. They look funny, but fly very straight.

Miller, Tom    (New Jersey, USA) - Last update: 2009 AKA: Yoehahn Certification Level: L1 NAR Club Member of: GSSS, NAR section 439 Favorite Rocket: The Cerulean Streak (pictured) Favorite Quote: Beware of the cows, not all milk is enriched! I started model rocketry when I was four or five, and built my first rocket while five. Years passed and I got my L1 11 years later. I have a fairly sizeable fleet, nothing to brag about, and lots of crayon rockets. I fly mostly odd rockets, futuristic, sci fi, and scale. Currently I am building my L2 rocket, and will start selling kits under TM Rocket Works, so look at my kits in a while, and avoid those darned trees!

Milliken, Randy    (Lafayette,) - Last update: 2009 AKA: RandyM Certification Level: L3 Club Member of: Tripoli Favorite Rocket: Too Favorite Quote: Keep the Noisy End Down and the Pointy End Up! Home Page: Click Here Club Site: Click Here I've been a BAR since 2004. I enjoy building and launching rockets with my kids and friends.

Montgomery, David    (Katy, TX/USA) - Last update: 2008 AKA: Dave - or sometimes - "Super Dave" Certification Level: L0 Club Member of: NAR; Challenger 498 & NASA/Houston Rocket Club # 365 Favorite Rocket: Scale, clusters, multistaged, boost & rocketgliders. Favorite Quote: "Failure is not an option." Started in model rocketry in summer of 1969; NAR member (off and on) since 1971 (NAR # 21853 SR), enjoy sport and competition flying. Past member of the Ark-La-Tex Model Rocket Club (Bossier City, LA), the Orange Rocketeers (Orlando, FL). Currently member of/and NAR Section Advisor of the Challenger 498 NAR Section; also participate in many ways with the NASA/Houston Rocket Club (#365).

Moore, Phillip    (Western Australia) - Last update: 2010 AKA: Wolflair Certification Level: Level 3 ARA Club Member of: ARA Favorite Rocket: Binder Raptor Favorite Quote: No Guts No Glory Home Page: Click Here Club Site: Click Here Well I got started in rocketry in 2004 with a small estes starter kit after a while I finally got around to joining the local rocket club called Perth Advanced Rocketry Club INC. I then got hooked on bigger and better things did my certification to level 1, I then proceded to be the first person to do a level 2 and 3 certification in Western Australia. Now days I am the Australian Rocketry Association INC Secretary which is the largest rocketry club in Australia.

Morocco, Chris    (Minnesota - USA) - Last update: 2009 Favorite Rocket: Any military styled and fantasy Favorite Quote: The Earth is Not your Mother--Joe Soucheray I started to build rockets in the late 70s as a teen. Now I am a BAR and I like to build rockests that are interesting and I am glad to see there are many more rocket companies that are around today then were in the late 70s. What I enjoy most about the hobby is I can clone many rockets that I wanted to build but never have gotten around to and now many are long gone. I am grateful for companies like Semroc and websites like YORP and Jimz for priving many plans and parts of the rockets I remembered from my youth.

Morris, Paul    (Bircotes- UK) - Last update: 2009 Club Member of: BARC Favorite Rocket: Edmonds Ecee Thunder Favorite Quote: I'm not stupid. I've had a stroke. Got into model rocketry about two years ago. My brother has been rocketing alot longer, and he got me interested. i have always liked making models and rocketry adds another dimension to modelling. i had a stroke about a year ago, and have found building rockets much more difficult since then. My brother writes my reviews etc for me. my favorite type of rockets are gliders.

Morrow, Stephen    (Kansas - USA) - Last update: 2009 AKA: DM1975 I enjoy building and launching rockets with my family and plan on getting my Level 1 and 2 cert this year in TRA. I do a lot of mid and low power stuff but I am now in a position where I can get into HPR.

Morstadt, Bob    (Brigham City, UT) - Last update: 2009 Certification Level: L2 NAR Club Member of: UROC Favorite Rocket: Atlas Favorite Quote: C.S. Lewis (1898-1963), the Anglican lay theologian and novelist, proposed that the great distances separating intelligent life in the universe are a form of divine quarantine. "The distances prevent the spiritual infection of a fallen species from spreading." In about 1960 I launched my first model rocket. It was the Estes (Model Missiles, Inc.?) Aerobee-Hi with a rubber nose cone. In 1965 I won first place in the Estes Science Fair contest. I've worked as an engineer in both the nuclear power and aerospace industries specializing in fluid dynamics analysis. Sometime in the 1970's I slowly faded out of the model rocket hobby. In 1993 I read John Kelland's article in the RC Modeler about his Lady Hawk rocket glider. I was amazed by the changes that I saw in the model rocket hobby and couldn't help but come back.

Mullin, Todd    (San Diego, CA, USA) - Last update: 2008 AKA: PunkRocketScience Certification Level: NAR L3 Club Member of: NAR, DART Favorite Rocket: Edmonds Ecee Thunder Favorite Quote: "It's like I told my last wife... Honey, I never drive faster than I can see... And besides, it's all in the reflexes." - Jack Burton, that's who. Home Page: Click Here Club Site: Click Here Punk is a state of mind... I may not look punk, but I'm rockin' on the inside... I love to fly at both ends of the rocketry spectrum. I fly everything from 13mm to 98mm with my favorite motors being the A10-3T and the M2400! I grew up building rockets and developed good building skills. The single most important thing that I've learned from building rockets is patience. The next most important thing is an appreciation for the process of the build. I find sanding very zen...