Rick Kramer Memorial Flight Award

Central Illinois Aerospace

proudly present

the winners of the

Rick Kramer Memorial Flight Award

Rick Kramer was well known in the model rocketry community for flying some very unusual rockets. He enjoyed making rockets out of a variety of food containers and was a big fan of tube finned rockets. Despite the unusual design of many of his rockets they were always well build and flew successfully.

In honor of Rick's memory we have decided to declare the most unusual rocket flown at GARLO each year to be a Rick Kramer Memorial Flight. This page will list the winners of this award for each year starting with 2011.

Year	Flyer	Rocket
2011	Mike Zaborowski	Robbie the Robot
2012	Alan Carroll	Spoolin', a 2 stage spool
2013	Adam Joseph	Replicator Rocket, a 3D printed rocket
2014	Mike Zaborowski	Missile Toe, a Gooney rocket
2015	Steven Dramstad	Pet Rock-ette
2016	William Carney	Hatter
2017	Steven Dramstad	Tinker Toy, indescribable
2018	Jonathan Sivier	Dragonfly monocopter
2019	John Hall	Whirl & Hurl, a 3D printed rocket
2020	Chris Deem	Solar Probe on a H45W
2021	Nate Dickerson	Geometric
2022	John Hall	Whirl & Hurl on an E9 motor
2023	John Hall	Whirl & Hurl on an E9 motor
2024	John Hall	Whirl & Hurl on an E12 motor
2025	Steve Dramstad	Minion on an F40-7W

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