Cranfield Aerodrome, midsummer almost everywhere else in Europe, but on Sunday, July 31, 1949, it was a cold, blustery windy day. A perfect day for flying Wakefields, at least according to the "Local Aeromodellers." The "breeze" as they classify it, cut loose, on the day before the contest during...
World War II was at last over and behind us. It had been nine years since the last Wakefield Cup event, the reigning Wakefield Champion Richard Korda is now 33 years old. Nine years ago Fred Bower of Canada who had placed second on only two flights in the 1939 Wakefield Cup Contest when he was 19...
How could it be? On the first flight of the event he won it all! Even he said it. Richard Korda said it when he was 79 years old, by now a Parkinsons patient, speaking on an audio tape made on September 6, 1994 by Loren Dietrich "...they made too big of an issue of the flight in the Wakefield. One...
July 31, 1938 at the Caudron Aerodrome, Guyancourt, outside of Paris, France, was a day of light breezes, and sunshine. The French hosts were now following a Wakefield tradition of honoring their guests with accommodations and contest preparations which were "par excellence". Contestants from 14...
This year the Wakefield Rules were again changed by the SMAE, first: the total minimum weight would now be 8 ounces, including the rubber motor; the total wing area would be from 190 to 210 square inches; power will be by rubber power only; flight time will be the average of three flights, flight...
The venue for the 1936 Wakefield Cup Contest was Detroit, Michigan, to be held following the "USA Nationals", which was scheduled from June 30, to July 2. Among the 400 Contestants competing at the "Nationals" were six members of Team Great Britain who promised in a letter to Frank Zaic "...to take...