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 IAR is an association of hobby rocket flyers, dedicated to the online needs of the rocketry community. Our email list is open for discussions on small models to high power. The current membership stands at approximately 300, all over America and Canada and with members in the United Kingdom, Argentina, Peru, and Australia.

IAR is just getting started, but its goal is to serve rocket flyers globally through education and communication. One goal of the Association is to establish an online rocketry course. By joining the IAR you will support this mission to make rocketry one of the most educated and safest hobbies.

The IAR website is at http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/7247/. Right now, it is the home for the latest edition of the IAR Hobby Rocketry Glossary, which contains definitions for over 520 rocketry-related terms, and links for rocketry design issues such as motor dimensions and body tube sizes, as well as links to other information sources and all the major rocketry sites and organizations. On the website, you can also see samples of our newsletter, as well as any other information you'll need about membership.

Current membership services offered by IAR include RocketForum, a web-based discussion list dedicated to IAR business and rocketry in general, with a tone a bit less confrontational than R-M-R can be at times (although the gloves sometimes come off when IAR business is being discussed).

IAR currently has ten officially-sanctioned chapters, with more being added all the time. But our primary meeting place is the Internet.

Membership is currently free through May, 1999, with a family price break begin on June 1, 1999.

Check out the Independent Association of Rocketry! See what we can do for you, and see how you can help your fellow rocket flyers world-wide!