The World Championships was awarded to the United States of America, and the contests would be held at the US Air Force Base, Suffolk near West Hampton, Long Island, New York, on July 24 to 26. The Convair Aircraft Corporation was the sponsor of the combined Wakefield and FAI Power events, and...
By Ian Kaynes CIAM reviewed the result of the 1953 Wakefield Cup event. It confirmed the original decision to engrave only Joe Foster's name on the Cup. The following is the report to CIAM: There has been a request asking for the recorded results of the 1953 Wakefield competition to be reconsidered...
For the first time in Free Flight history the 1953 Wakefield event would be part of a "World Championships", and the winners of the Wakefield, and the FAI Power event, would be forever known as "World Champions". The operations for running the World Championships was now in the control of the FAI/...
The date had been set for the Wakefield Cup Contest to be held on July 11. The location Norkopping, Sweden, had been chosen because the 1951 Wakefield Champion Sune Stark, by the rules chose the venue: ". . .the contest will be held in the country which won the Cup the previous year...", this was...
With the changing Wakefield Rules the FAI/CIAM had put an end to the "Vintage Era". All that now remained of the original SMAE rules was the old ROG requirement, and even that would be gone by 1957 along with the influence of the SMAE to the Wakefield International Cup Event itself. The rules were...
Jamijarvi, Finland, at the Finnish Gliding School, July 20 to 24, the venue for the Worlds most famous Free Flight Aeromodelling Event: TheWakefield International Cup to be officiated by the Suomen Ilmailiito. The Contest was to be conducted at night, during the phenomenon of the "Midnight Sun"...