This year's gathering for the Wakefield Cup event was held at the Allgau area of Bavaria, near the village of Leutkirch, in Southern Germany. Twenty-one nations, represented by 61 contestants, were on hand to compete for the Cup. Team USA, led by Pete Sotich, the President of the AMA, included the...
The venue for this year's Wakefield Cup contest was Brienne Le Chateau, France. This year again the Wakefield Cup event would go it alone, without Power, and Glider. The World Championships format was just too expensive for any nation to sponsor this year. This would also be the last time the...
Now that the Wakefield Cup Rules had been completely "modernized" in 1957(the ROG and the cross section requirements having been deleted) there appeared a new species of Wakefield on the Continent. This new typology was especially originated by the innovative aeromodel designs of George Benedek, of...
1957 The Forgotten Wakefield Contest This was the year in which the FAI/CIAM decided not to hold the Wakefield event. Sweden could not afford to sponsor the World Championships in 1957. Some members of the "Rules Committee" of the "Society of Model Aeronautical Engineers" moved to recall the...
The World Championships returned to Sweden, at Hoganas. This would be a combined Contest, with FAI Power, Nordic A2 Glider, and Wakefield. I emphasize this because in 1957 there was a Glider contest, but no Power or Wakefield contests. Maybe what I am about to present next is a clue to what...
The gathering of Wakefield nations this year took place on the USAF Mainz-Finthen Air Base, Federal Republic of Germany. The USAF had been the host for the 1954 WC at Suffolk also. This year they worked jointly with the German Aero Club of Frankfurt, and the AMA, whose Pete Sotich of the Illinois...