Back to Wiener Neustadt, Austria the same venue used for the 1963 and 1969 WCs, but this time sharing accommodations with the crowd attending a "Home Show" in the village. Remember in 1963, contestants were accommodated in private homes. Also Wednesday August 15 was a holiday, and many spectators...
Modellflygforbund took a gamble and bet that the tiny aerodrome at Save, near Gothenberg, Sweden, would contain F1A, F1B, and F1C, because the yearly weather almanac said that the wind would be calm during early August. Had this trilogy of Free Flight events lasted one day longer, they would have...
Back to Wiener Neustadt after a six year absence. The field, village, and the Austrian Contest Director Krill, remain the same. So what's new? Plenty. The FAI/CIAM have once more "fiddled" with the F1B rules. This year there will be "7 Rounds of 180 Seconds", to attempt to reduce the number of...
The Czechoslovakian Peoples Federation working with the Aero Club Czechoslovakia put up the funds to conduct the FFWC for the first time at Sazena, a small village near Prague, August 12 to 15. On hand to defend his F1B WC title was the popular Dane, Thomas Koster. The Europeans were making a...
The venue this year was mid-Finland at Kauhava for the FFWC format consisting of the three FAI Free Flight events: glider F1A, rubber F1B, and power F1C. The village of Kauhava, has a population of only 10,000, and I am sure they felt a little overwhelmed by the shear magnitude of feeding, housing...
The twenty-sixth meeting of The Wakefield Cup Event took place at Wiener Neustadt Aerodrome, an ex-MIG base used by the Soviet Air Force, and the original home of the Messerschmitt Fighter. The shops where the Messerschmitt was produced stand on the edge of the aerodrome as skeletal reminders that...